Three Roads to the Alamo by William C. Davis

He thoroughly explores the lives of these three men-their successes, their failures, their hopes for the future-and lays out the arguments for and against Texan independence from Mexico in which they found themselves embroiled. Bowie was both less well known and less heroic-a land speculator not above resorting to fraud and forgery to get what he wanted, while William Travis, the youngest of the three, brought little but potential with him to Texas.ĭavis does a good job of illuminating both the personalities of his subjects and the situation in which they found themselves in Texas.

As any schoolchild knows, Davy Crockett was the 'king of the wild frontier,' a bona fide folk hero in his own time who rode his legend to political office first in Tennessee and then as a United States congressman. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo Davis is far more interested in what brought three such disparate men as Crockett, Bowie, and Travis to Texas in the first place than in how they died there.

Though it is primarily the Alamo we remember today, the battle itself takes up just a few pages of William C. OL277110W Page_number_confidence 95.98 Pages 838 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220406062642 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1147 Scandate 20220404044405 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780060930943 Tts_version 4.Ever since the day in March 1836 when an obscure Spanish mission in Texas fell to Mexican forces led by President Santa Anna, Americans have been exhorted to 'remember the Alamo.' And remember it we do-primarily as the place where American folk legends Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis met their end fighting for Texas independence. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:07:12 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40422708 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Three Roads to the Alamo by William C. Davis