Three Roads to the Alamo

by William C. Davis

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  ——-. “…Chapter II.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 37 (July 1933): 1-44.

  ——-. “…Chapter III.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 37 (October 1933): 79-118.

  ——-. “…Chapter IV.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 37 (January 1934): 157-84,

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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  There is a fair bit of irony about the writing of this book. The portion describing the deaths of the protagonists was finished in a hotel room in Jackson, Mississippi, just blocks from the Alamo Theater. The last chapter was finished in the Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio, in a room overlooking the Alamo itself, on March 6, 1997, the anniversary of
the battle. Through one window I could see the building that now rests where once the north wall of the compound stood, where Travis fell. Through another I could see across today's Alamo Plaza to the site of Bowie's room near the main gate, and the spot where he died. And somewhere within reach of my gaze, Crockett met his end. Though, alas, there was no sense of “connection” in writing at the place, on that date, of those men, there was about it, certainly, a sense of having ended where I began.