Meet Edmund McGowan, a naturalist whose life's work is threatened by the war against Mexico; Mary Mott, a determined and resourceful widowed innkeeper; and her sixteen-year-old son, Terrell.The Washington Post - Ron FranscellThe Alamo is the holiest of texas shrines, a haunted little mission at the crossroads of fact and fiction and, in the gospel of Texas, perhaps a vestige of Creation itself.