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Summary Of Dawn At The Alamo By James E. Crisp

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After Finishing Sleuthing the Alamo Davy Crockets last stand and other mysteries of the Texas revolution one has to applaud James E. Crisp and his dedication of unlocking the past where Crisp investigates the fallacies and myths by exploring and decrypting and putting the puzzle together by researching and reviewing the work of Historians and the memoirs of history like Bill Groneman defense of a legend, the de la Pena’s memoir, General Urrea’s own diary published in 1838 the master thesis of Edward William Bartholomae. James E Crisp search for truths regarding the Texas revolution regarding Sam Houston’s speech at Refugio was Houston a racist was the Texas Revolution a race war, the mystery of Davy Crockett surrounding the death of a legend …show more content…

Also in the chapter how race is a central thesis of the novel is about the paintings Dawn at the Alamo and The fall at the Alamo where Anglo-Americans were shown to be brave, courageous valiantly while Tejanos were left absent of the battle of the Alamo and the Mexican army under Santa Anna was portrayed as though they were monstrous as the Mexican solider sneaking up on Travis to shoot him in the back or stab him in the back. As Crisp states “repaint …show more content…

James E. Crisp during this chapter puts the reader right in the middle of this debate between Bill Groneman a former police officer where there is a passionate individuals in their protection of the legend of David Crockett in his final hours. In Groneman’s own book Defense of a Legend: Crockett and the de la Pena Diary he claims that diary is a forgery and is told by a famous hand writing expert that the diary is a forgery. While Crisp acknowledges that the diary does suggest a forgery like how can a reference from one diary that was published two years later be acknowledged in the de la Pena memoir. As Crisp investigated further he realized this is a work of man that was going through difficult times then the work of a masterful forger. I believe the theme of the story or what the author wants to portray to the reader is that history is often misrepresented or mistranslated how history can be offset by the views of the one writing or painting of history. Like in the paintbrush and the knife how the painting only showcased Anglo-Americans and erased Tejanos from the battle of the

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