I taught history a good number of years in local Texas high schools and really concentrated alot on the Alamo and different empressarios.The most enlightening thing in all my years was the talk surrounding the Pena diaries.I was flabergasted to think that a Mexican officer might have been keeping a log of activities in and around the San Antonio area at that time.I never could get my head wrapped around the fact that it had snowed the winter of 1835 in Mexico and I was under the assumption it was not a just a little dusting but major snow storms.The logistics must have been a nightmare and add to that...that many Mexican family members traveled w/the army of Santa Anna.I am anxious now to get some of these books to add to my small lot of knowledge about the early days of the Texas frontier. powdr

Last edited by powdr; 02/10/12.