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Sleuthing the Alamo

Author : James E. Crisp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195184084
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Sleuthing the Alamo written by James E. Crisp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture wars of the past two centuries. Beginning with a very personal prologue recalling both the pride and the prejudices that he encountered in the Texas of his youth, Crisp traces his path to the discovery of documents distorted, censored, and ignored--documents which reveal long-silenced voices from the Texan past. In each of four chapters focusing on specific documentary "finds," Crisp uncovers the clues that led to these archival discoveries. Along the way, the cast of characters expands to include: a prominent historian who tried to walk away from his first book; an unlikely teenaged "speechwriter" for General Sam Houston; three eyewitnesses to the death of Davy Crockett at the Alamo; a desperate inmate of Mexico City's Inquisition Prison, whose scribbled memoir of the war in Texas is now listed in the Guiness Book of World Records; and the stealthy slasher of the most famous historical painting in Texas. In his afterword, Crisp explores the evidence behind the mythic "Yellow Rose of Texas" and examines some of the powerful forces at work in silencing the very voices from the past that we most need to hear today. Here then is an engaging first-person account of historical detective work, illuminating the methods of the serious historian--and the motives of those who prefer glorious myth to unflattering truth.

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee

Author : Davy Crockett
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803263253
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee written by Davy Crockett and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as a pup, Davy Crockett "always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger." In his own inimitable style, he describes his earliest days in Tennessee, his two marriages, his career as an Indian fighter, his bear hunts, and his electioneering. His reputation as a b'ar hunter (he killed 105 in one season) sent him to Congress, and he was voted in and out as the price of cotton (and his relations with the Jacksonians) rose and fell. In 1834, when this autobiography appeared, Davy Crockett was already a folk hero with an eye on the White House. But a year later he would lose his seat in Congress and turn toward Texas and, ultimately, the Alamo.

In Texas with Davy Crockett

Author : John T. McIntyre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book In Texas with Davy Crockett written by John T. McIntyre and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas

Author : Richard Penn Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas written by Richard Penn Smith and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Texas History Stories

Author : Elbridge Gerry Littlejohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Texas History Stories written by Elbridge Gerry Littlejohn and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the stories of thirteen heroes or events in nineteenth-century Texas history, including Cabeza de Vaca, Sam Houston and the Alamo.

Who Was Davy Crockett?

Author : Gail Herman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698159705
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Who Was Davy Crockett? written by Gail Herman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, is a man of legend. He is said to have killed his first bear when he was three years old. His smile alone killed another, and he skinned a bear by forcing him to run between two trees. Fact or fiction? Find out the real story of this folk hero, who did love to hunt bears, served as a congressman for Tennessee, and fought and died at the Alamo.

Born on a Mountaintop

Author : Bob Thompson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030772090X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Born on a Mountaintop written by Bob Thompson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he has been repeatedly reinvented by historians and popular storytellers. In Born on a Mountaintop, Bob Thompson combines the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife as he delves deep into our love for an American icon. In the road-trip tradition of Sarah Vowell and Tony Horwitz, Thompson follows Crockett's footsteps from his birthplace in east Tennessee to Washington, where he served three terms in Congress, and on to Texas and the gates of the Alamo, seeking out those who know, love, and are still willing to fight over Davy's life and legacy. Born on a Mountaintop is more than just a bold new biography of one of the great American heroes. Thompson's rich mix of scholarship, reportage, humor, and exploration of modern Crockett landscapes bring Davy Crockett's impact on the American imagination vividly to life.

Forget the Alamo

Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 198488011X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Forget the Alamo written by Bryan Burrough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! “Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review "Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo provocatively explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear for some, celebrating the Alamo has long had an echo of celebrating whiteness. In the past forty-some years, waves of revisionists have come at this topic, and at times have made real progress toward a more nuanced and inclusive story that doesn't alienate anyone. But we are not living in one of those times; the fight over the Alamo's meaning has become more pitched than ever in the past few years, even violent, as Texas's future begins to look more and more different from its past. It's the perfect time for a wise and generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth into a place that's gotten awfully dark.

David Crockett

Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393067580
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book David Crockett written by Michael Wallis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the legendary frontiersman, soldier, and martyr examines his life--from hunting bears in the unspoiled countryside to helping defend the Alamo--and aims to dispel long-held myths.

In Texas with Davy Crockett

Author : Everett McNeil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book In Texas with Davy Crockett written by Everett McNeil and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Texas with Davy Crockett

Author : John Thomas McIntyre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book In Texas with Davy Crockett written by John Thomas McIntyre and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Davy Crockett from A to Z

Author : William R. Chemerka
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781455618354
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Davy Crockett from A to Z written by William R. Chemerka and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davy Crockett's life on the frontier, accomplishments as a soldier, and career as a politician are expertly detailed through the letters of the alphabet. In entries such as A is for Alamo; K is for Benjamin Kitchen, Crockett's first schoolmaster; and B is for Betsy, the name of his famous rifle, Crockett comes to life in this biography for young readers. Complete with a timeline of important events in Crockett's life and vibrant illustrations, this read is a must for young students of the legendary man.

How Did Davy Die?

Author : Dan Kilgore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book How Did Davy Die? written by Dan Kilgore and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On to the Alamo

Author : Richard Penn Smith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440684421
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book On to the Alamo written by Richard Penn Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David "Davy" Crockett (1786–1836) was born in Tennessee, fought alongside Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812, and later served three terms in the House of Representatives before heading to Texas, where he died defending the Alamo. Col. Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas, first published after Crockett’s death and disingenuously attributed to him, was written by Richard Penn Smith as a narrative that promoted a sanitized account of the Alamo as a heroic effort by Americans to stem the Mexican "invasion" of Texas. The story, which was a huge success in its day, created a myth of the battle that pervaded the collective American memory for more than 150 years and reinforced the image of Davy Crockett as the "King of the Frontier."

Big Wonderful Thing

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292759517
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Big Wonderful Thing written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.

In Texas with Davy Crockett; a Story of the Texas War of Independence

Author : Everett McNeil
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290911511
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book In Texas with Davy Crockett; a Story of the Texas War of Independence written by Everett McNeil and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Three Roads to the Alamo

Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061754072
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Three Roads to the Alamo written by William C. Davis and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very last word." — Stephen B. Oates Three Roads to the Alamois the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history—and about what really happened in that battle.