The Flag of No Quarter

Crockett and Bowie

The Desperate Defence

Before the Dictator

To the Last Man

The News of the Fall

In Another Trap

Fannin's Camp

The Sad Surrender

The Black Tragedy

The Race for the Boat

The Cry for Vengeance

THE TEXAN SCOUTS

CHAPTER I

IN THE STORM

The horseman rode slowly toward the west, stopping once or twice to examine the wide circle of the horizon with eyes that were trained to note every aspect of the wilderness. On his right the plains melted away in gentle swell after swell, until they met the horizon. Their brown surface was broken only by the spiked and thorny cactus and stray bits of chaparral.

On his left was the wide bed of a river which flowed through the sand, breaking here and there into several streams, and then reuniting, only to scatter its volume a hundred yards further into three or four channels. A bird of prey flew on strong wing over the water, dipped and then 

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