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Highlights in the Lives of Bowie, Crockett, and Travis

By: Virgil E. Baugh, Joseph Milton Nance (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 1 November 1985

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251 Pages

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On March 6, 1836, the Alamo fell after a thirteen-day siege by General Antonio López de Santa Anna and his Mexican army. The fall of the mission ranks as one of the most recognizable events in American history. Rendezvous at the Alamo presents capsule biographies of three prominent historical figures at the Alamo: Jim Bowie, William Barret Travis, and Davy Crockett. Using diaries, personal letters, eyewitness accounts, and a wealth of secondary souce material, Virgil E. Baugh describes the varied lives of the three and shows how each ended up at the Alamo. In spite of their fame, all three men had been dogged by frustration and failure, but in death their immortality was insured.

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"Baugh has searched wide and deep to tell the life stories of Bowie, Travis, and Crockett, and to evaluate the role that each played at the Alamo. . . . He is convincing, writing with considerable assurance, having made a careful examination of available source materials. . . . The scholar and general reader will find this account of the heroic defense of the Alamo by a handful of Texans rewarding and enjoyable."--Joseph Milton Nance, Texas A&M University

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Notes	p. 9
Preface	p. 11
James Bowie	p. 13
Bowie's Forebears and Childhood	p. 15
Those Wild Bowie Boys	p. 21
Fortunes for the Taking	p. 29
The Bowie Knives -- a Collective Invention	p. 39
Bowie Knives and Duelling pistols	p. 51
Love and Lipan Silver	p. 64
Nacogdoches and After	p. 75
The Battle of Gonzales to the Siege of Bexar	p. 81
The Still-Restless Guns -- Bowie Enters the Alamo	p. 92
David Crockett	p. 100
Crockett's Youth and Marriage	p. 102
To the Creek Indian War	p. 105
Davy Goes into politics	p. 110
Davy Quits politics	p. 117
A Texan Volunteer	p. 123
Adventures along the Way	p. 129
William Barret Travis	p. 133
Youth and Education	p. 135
Did Young William Meet Lafayette?	p. 139
A Marriage Is Blessed and Blighted	p. 142
Buck Travis at Anahuac	p. 149
Citizen and Lawyer	p. 160
The Cautious Diarist	p. 167
More Trouble at Anahuac	p. 173
Same Story -- Different Ending	p. 179
Scouting and Recruiting to Duty at Bexar	p. 186
The Settling Doom	p. 192
Give Me Help, Oh My Country!	p. 203
The Siege	p. 209
He Myth-Makers and Military ""Experts""	p. 220
Bibliographical and Other Notes	p. 227
Notes	p. 228
Index	p. 247
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