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Long, Jeff. Duel of Eagles: The Mexican and U.S. Fight for the Alamo. New York: Morrow, William and Company, 1991 Jeff Long is a man definitely worthy of being called a risk taker. Despite the fact that he had majored in philosophy, anthropology, and history, he did not fear the fact that finding employment would be a difficult feat. He used his time in the winters to write while he worked in the summers as a stonemason. He considered this risk an adventure, and finished his first published book, Outlaw: The True Story of Claude Dallas. To write his book, The Duel of Eagles, Long plunged into research gathering all possible information. He read diaries, letters, and journals to come up with an accurate description of event. He received many awards including the Western Writers of America Spur Award for best novel in 1994 for Empire of Bones, the British Boardman-Tasker Award for Mountain Literature in 1993 for The Ascent, and the American Alpine Club’s Literary Award in 1993 for The Descent. He even had a media adaptation for the true story of Claude Dallas in 1986. After the Duel of Eagles, Long began another historical book called, Empire of Bones. This novel was zoned in on Sam Houston and the Revolution. On a more fic