TY - SOUND AU - Brands,H.W. ED - Random House Audio TI - Lone star nation: how a ragged army of volunteers won the battle for Texas independence - and changed America SN - 0739310135 PY - 2004/// CY - New York, Prince Frederick, Md. PB - Random House Audio, Distributed by Recorded Books KW - Texas KW - History KW - Revolution, 1835-1836 KW - To 1846 KW - 1846-1850 N1 - Read by : Chuck Montgomery N2 - Brands writes the story of Texas's precarious journey to statehood, from its early colonization in the 1820s to the shocking massacres of Texas loyalists at the Alamo and Goliad by the Mexican army, from its rough-and-tumble years as a land overrun by Comanche to its day of liberation an upstart Republic ER -