Montana; The Magazine of Western History, April 1st, 1999
TEXIAN ILIAD A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 Stephen L. Hardin University of Texas Press, Austin, 1996. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. xix+ 321 pp. $15.95 paper. The seige and storming of the Alamo, the death by firing squad of 342 Texas volunteers at Goliad, and Sam Houston's desperate counterstroke at San Jacinto are all the stuff of American legend. Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Barrett Travis,James Fannin, and a host of lesser demigods have for more than a hundred and fifty years graced the pantheon of American folk heroes. Such films as D....
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