Exploring Alamo Legends

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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,.

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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.