The rest is true.Įven though Line in the Sand is mainly for Young Adults, it elucidates what happened in 1836. The fiction part is Lucinda and her thoughts. As far as I can tell it is historically accurate. It also describes how settlers in Gonzales, Goliad and San Antonio reacted to the near certainty of having to fight to the death for freedom. Some of the interesting points from Lucinda’s view are the daily life of a family of settlers in south Texas when that territory had just become a part of Mexico also the difficulty of starting a new life in the West for pioneers coming from other areas, the constant fear of Comanches and Santa Ana’s army, the unruly behavior of the Tennessee Volunteers, the difficulty of planting and harvesting every year and the political uncertainty of living in a country not yet a country. “A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence” by Sherry Garland is a fictional epistolary record of events leading up to, during and after the battle of the Alamo in 1836, Lucinda records in her personal diary her feelings about her family, her friends, the events taking place in the fall of 1835 and the spring of 1836.
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