Publisher's Synopsis
As the fight for Texas Independence heats up in the fall of 1835, young volunteers as far away as Macon, Georgia enlist to test their mettle in the brewing struggle. Three women traveling alongside the battalion have hidden reasons for abandoning home. They have never heard of the remote settlement Waterloo, destined to be renamed Austin. None starting out on the 1,000 mile trek envision a treacherous passage into unrelenting frontier. No one foresees any morning as cruel as the next Palm Sunday in Goliad, Texas. with the familiar stories of Jim Bowie, David Crockett, and William B. Travis, the heroes of the Alamo, it is time, in the 175th anniversary year of the Revolution, to understand the more complex stories of James W. Fannin and his Mexican counterpart, José de Urrea. In the Edge of Freedom, these and other historical figures show that the search for peace at Goliad was as dramatic as the fight for glory at the. Alamo.
