Rogers, Lisa Waller

Fictional diary of a fourteen-year-old girl accompanying a cattle drive along the Chisolm Trail in 1878.

Tells the story of Andrea Casta??n, the last survivor of the Alamo, from her birth in the Rio Grande desert during an Apache attack, to her death in 1899 at the age of ninety-five; and discusses how her lifelong efforts to help others, and her dedication to freedom, led her to the Alamo during Santa Anna's siege.

A teenage boy keeps a diary of events during the devastating hurricane which struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900, and of the rescue operations that followed.