*Stephen L. Hardin is the author of more than a dozen scholarly articles (three of which appear on this website) including one with James W. Pohl, “The Military History of the Texas Revolution:  An Overview,” which appeared in the January, 1986 Quarterly.  Formerly a research fellow with the New Handbook of Texas, Dr. Hardin currently teaches at The Victoria College in Victoria, Texas.  He is the author of The Texas Rangers, Lone Star, and the award winning Texian Iliad:  A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836.  Television viewers can regularly see a younger version of Dr. Hardin on The History Channel.  He has also appeared on NBC’s TODAY show.

1   E. Bowker to Daniel Bowker, Mar. 29, 1836, in John H. Ienkins (ed.), Papers of the Texas Revolution 1835-1836 (10 vols.; Austin: Presidial Press, 1973), V, 223-224 (1st quotation); Mary Austin Holley, Texas (1836; reprint, Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1985), 354; Paul Andrew Hutton, "Introduction," in Susan Prendergast Schoelwer with Tom W. Claser, Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience (Dallas: DeGolyer Library and Southern Methodist University Press, 1985), 12-13.

2   José Enrique de la Peña, With Sana Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution, trans. and ed. Carmen Perry (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1975), 53; Dan Kilgore, How Did Davy Die? (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1978), 47; Paul Andrew Hutton, "Introduction," in David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the state of Tennessee (1834; reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986), xliii.

3   Walter Lord, A Time to Stand (New York: Harper & Brothers. 1961) 161; Ben Procter, The Battle of the Alamo (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1986), 32-36.

4   Phil Rosenthal and Bill Groneman, Roll Call at the Alamo (Fort Collins, Col.: The Old Army Press, 1985), 29-32, 33 (1st quotation), 34-35, 36 (2nd-4th quotations).

5   Bob Boyd, The Texas Revolution: A Day-by-Day Account, ed. Soren W. Nielsen (San Angelo: San Angelo Standard, Inc., 1986), 1-3, 5-6, 154; Arthur G. Milton, "New Attack on the Alamo, Book Misrepresents Battle," Austin American-Statesman, Apr. 1, 1989.

6   San Antonio Express and News, Mar. 3, 1990.

7   San Antonio Express and News, Mar. 7, 1990.

8   For more on the relationship between DeShields and Onderdonk, see Cecilia Steinfeldt, The Onderdonks: A Family of Texas Painters (San Antonio: Published for the San Antonio Museum by Trinity University Press, 1976), 27-28 ( 1st quotation). The IMAX film, Alamo…The Price of Freedom—the most accurate Alamo movie to date—plays in a continuous run at San Antonio's Rivercenter Mall on a screen that is six stories high. Steve Abolt, the actor who played Crockett's nemesis a la Nuñez in the movie, tells of his experiences on the set in "The Results of My Mission," The Alamo Journal (Dec., 1987), 11-13. Abolt reports that old grudges ran deep during the filming, when a number of the extras steadfastly refused to portray Mexican soldiers.

9   Lord, A Time to Stand, 155, 205; Paul Andrew Hiltton, "The Alamo: An American Epic," American History Illustrated (Mar., 1986), 13.

10   San Antonio Daily Express, June 30, 1889.

11   Paul Andrew Hutton to George B. Ward, Dec. 11, 1988 (copy in editor's possession).