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This Way Slaughter, an original work of literary, biographical fiction about “the Voice of the Texas Revolution” and Commander of the Alamo, William Barret Travis, marks the first and only time that figure has received full-length treatment in a novel.Typically a character portrayed as a rather minor stick figure forfeit to a much larger, unthinkably violent and bloody drama, one overshadowed by more celebrated names like Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and Sam Houston, “Slaughter” places the 26-year-old attorney, schoolteacher, editor and diarist centerstage where he is subjected to relentlessly probing, yet empathic scrutiny.Here is “Buck” Travis, not as pop culture insists upon depicting him, but as a living, breathing, “walking around” human being, warts and all: Valorous to a fault, yet capable of the most bitter cynicism. Intellectually brilliant, yet a courtier of romance. A political firebrand with but a begrudging interest in politics. An unwilling warrior more interested in words than in weaponry who found himself reluctantly drafted into occupying an epic, history-making role for which he considered himself singularly ill-suited.In the end, what emerges in the course of the nov

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Author

Olds, Bruce

Publisher

Wings Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609405700

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.3 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14