Exploring Alamo Legends

After years of researching all available Alamo records, including primary letters and accounts by participants, goverment documents from the period, newspaper articles, diary entries, and even receipts, Wallace O. Chariton has answered these and many more of the perplexing Alamo questions. No punches were pulled in this hard hitting investigation. No one - Sam Houston, Santa Anna, William B. Travis, and past and present historians included - is exempt from scrutiny. Some of the answers presented may excite your patriotic yearnings; other more controversial answers may ignite your historical anger. In either event, some new light has been cast onto a few of the shadows of the Alamo legends.