Goliad Massacre: A Tragedy of the Texas Revolution

by Jakie L. Pruett, Everett B. Cole

The massacre at Goliad of 342 Texas prisoners on Palm Sunday, 1836.

157 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1984

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is saved by its topic. The Texas Revolution, the American frontier, the formation of Mexico and the real-life, tall-tale characters who were drawn or thrust into this conflict -- everything about Goliad is compelling and worth knowing. However, authors Pruett and Cole offer little of their own work to the history of Goliad, especially toward the end where they slap pages and pages of source material into the book without analysis as if padding an essay to meet a required word count. It's lazy scholarship more suitable for a freshman-composition flunky than a pair of published historians.