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Sleuthing the Alamo : Davy Crockett's last stand and other mysteries of the Texas Revolution
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ISBN: 128384835X 0195184084 0199755809 9780195184082 9781283848350 9780199755806 0195163494 9780195163490 0195163508 9780195163506 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and ""political correctness,"" as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture wars of the past two centuries. Beginning with a very personal prologue recalling both the pride and the prejudices that he encountered in the Texas of his youth, Crisp traces his path to the discovery of documents distorted, censored, and ignored--documents which reveal long-silenced voices from the Texan past. In e

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