Through the daydreams of a young boy, the members of the last Hollywood silent picture crew of the 1920's are whisked back in time to 1836 and right into the battle for Texas Independence.

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Fate lends a hand in getting Martin, a ragged and dirty old man in to speak with Ralph Langley, a New York City literary agent. The story that Martin will share is meant to convince his host to help him publish a book.

His work is about a 1928 silent movie crew that arrives at a proposed movie location in a secluded part of southern Texas. He goes on to tell that shortly after their arrival, they find that the year is longer 1928, but 1836 instead. They had been drawn to the actual place and time where the battle was to take place.

The mission fort had waited patiently for their arrival, appearing in the same condition that it had been in was some ninety years before. It waited for someone to record and declare the valor of all the brave men that were about to die.

For some reason along the annals of time, the life to death struggle of the men of the Alamo had not been properly recorded. At least, that is what Martin said. He said that as of 1928, the siege of the Alamo was a little known sentence in the history books.

As strange as it might sound, what Martin was saying was true. Just because we know so much about the Alamo today doesn't necessarily mean that it was always so. Knowledge as we know it can be altered within the moment that it takes to bat an eye, without us even being aware of the change. In truth, entire volumes of books can be written or rewritten within the appearance and the disappearance of a mere glitter of light.

With the heroics of the men of the Alamo now safely recorded for all to cherish, the task had been completed. However, that knowledge had not been brought about by the efforts of the movie crew. But, if they were not responsible for proclaiming the valor, who was?

Before he would dare to commit his name to Martin's work, Langley sets off in search of answers to certain very troubling questions. In the southern part of Texas, he learns that the task had been completed through the actions of one man, That man was Ben Talbot.

Talbot is rumored to have been the last courier to leave the Alamo before it fell. He was then captured with Fannin's command. But, through divine intervention he escaped the murders at Goliad. Eventually he joins Sam Houston's army and fights to help Texas win her Independence at San Jacinto.

After Texas became a Republic, it was Talbot that proclaimed the acts of the many men and women that helped to make Texas free. He believed that it was his destiny and duty to write about the brave souls that gave their all. Through all his writings he never once bothered to mention his own contributions.

But, who was Ben Talbot?"

"Reign of Valor"

Can be purchased from Trafford Publishing and also from the web.