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Alamo
history articles by Texas historians and columnists
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Susannah
Dickinson
by Linda-Kirkpatrick 5-1-08
"...Susannah picked up Angelina and followed the officer into
the courtyard. It was then that she viewed a site that history books
can never describe. The air was still and there was a deafening
hush all around. The bodies of the brave dead Texans lay stacked
in piles, later to become funeral pyres spreading smoke and history
to the sky above..."
Alamo
Backdoor by Mike Cox
Who first noted that the old Spanish mission in San Antonio had
no back door? And what if the Alamo did have a back door, or at
least a secret escape route? On Sept. 15, 1894, the Eagle Pass Guide
reprinted a story from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, “The Alamo’s
Secret Passage.”...
Letters
from the Alamo by Murray Montgomery
"...I've also had a desire to get my information from the original
sources - that is, those folks who actually lived, loved, fought,
and died during those turbulent times of early Texas..."
Line
in the Sand by Mike Cox
"By March 5, 1836, Col. William Barrett Travis had known for
several days that his situation inside the old Spanish mission called
the Alamo had become hopeless..."
Did
Davy survive? by Bob Bowman 2-25-08
Did Davy Crockett survive the battle of the Alamo, only to be sent
to Mexico as a prisoner and forced to work in a mine? The possibility
was raised in an edition of Southwestern Historical Quarterly in
April of 1940...
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New
Alamo Letter
Our
Initial Correspondence from Mr. David London:
"I am sending a copy of a letter written by William B.
Travis at the Alamo that has been in my family for over 160 years...
We have never offered it for sale... It had never been published..."
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ALAMO
LETTER:
From Travis' hand to the State Archives
or Is there a Graphologist in the house?
by John Troesser
The
Spirit of Sacrifice, aka The Alamo Cenotaph by John Troesser
Joe
by MikeCox
The man who witnessed Travis' death at the Alamo
Alamo
Monument by Mike Cox
In 1912, a San Antonio group began raising money to build a monument
to the defenders of the Alamo. But the memorial they wanted for
Alamo Plaza would not be any run of the mill monument. It would
be Texas-sized and then some, an architectural wonder...
Alamo
Hero by W. T. Block Jr.
Isaac Ryan
Killer's
Trail of Thread
by W. T. Block
Some Alamo Heroes Fought Twice for Texas
George
C. Kimble and Almaron Dickinson, Heroic hat makers at the Alamo
by Murray Montgomery
Savior
of The Alamo... Remembering Adina De Zava by Murray Montgomery
"If it hadn't been for her efforts, the Alamo might
well have been replaced by a parking lot."
Eyewitness
to the Battle of the Alamo - An Unidentified Mexican Soldier's Personal
Account of the Historic Struggle by Murray Montgomery
Alamo
Letters by Mike Cox
The impassioned letters Col. William B. Travis sent by courier from
the Alamo are dramatic pieces of writing, but they are not the only
surviving words of someone who died in the old Spanish mission on
March 6, 1836.
Alamo
Ghosts - Dawn at the Alamo by James L. Choron 4-4-04
An ghost encounter, and chilling tales of ghostly experiences at
the Alamo.
The
Alamo's Red River Connection by Bob Bowman
Alamo
Marksman by Bob Bowman
Juan's
Cabin by Bob Bowman
When Juan Antonio Badillo left East Texas in 1836 and enlisted for
six months service with the new Republic of Texas, he left two legacies.
One, he was one of only a handful of Tejanos - Mexicans born in
Texas - who died at the Alamo on March 6, 1836. Two, he left a still-standing
log cabin that could be among East Texas' oldest structures...
Alamo
Cowards
by Mike Cox
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