Lonestar Destiny

Two years before the fateful Battle of the Alamo, the storm clouds—and leaders—of a revolution gathered across Texas. Things looked up for William Barret Travis in the early months of 1834. The 24-year-old attorney had just set up his law practice in the town of San Felipe in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas, and struggled to get his life in order. South Carolina born, he had left home, wife, son and unborn daughter in Claiborne, Alabama, three years earlier and settled in Anahuac, Tex