Rendezvous at the Alamo: Highlights in the Lives of Bowie, Crockett, and Travis (Bison Book) [Paperback]

Virgil E. Baugh (Author), Joseph Milton Nance (Foreword)

Book Description

Series: Bison Book | Publication Date: November 1, 1985

On March 6, 1836, the Alamo fell after a thirteen-day siege by General Antonio López de Santa Anna and his Mexican army. The fall of the mission ranks as one of the most recognizable events in American history. Rendezvous at the Alamo presents capsule biographies of three prominent historical figures at the Alamo: Jim Bowie, William Barret Travis, and Davy Crockett. Using diaries, personal letters, eyewitness accounts, and a wealth of secondary souce material, Virgil E. Baugh describes the varied lives of the three and shows how each ended up at the Alamo. In spite of their fame, all three men had been dogged by frustration and failure, but in death their immortality was insured.

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"Baugh has searched wide and deep to tell the life stories of Bowie, Travis, and Crockett, and to evaluate the role that each played at the Alamo. . . . He is convincing, writing with considerable assurance, having made a careful examination of available source materials. . . . The scholar and general reader will find this account of the heroic defense of the Alamo by a handful of Texans rewarding and enjoyable."--Joseph Milton Nance, Texas A&M University

Product Details

• Paperback: 251 pages
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; First Bison Book Printing edition (November 1, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803260741
• ISBN-13: 978-0803260740
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,988,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Story of the 3 Most Well Known Men in the Alamo, January 31, 2009

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Dispatch911 (Waco, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rendezvous at the Alamo: Highlights in the Lives of Bowie, Crockett, and Travis (Bison Book) (Paperback)

I have the 1960 first edition of this book, Virgil Baugh the Author did a lot of research on these 3 men, Jim Bowie and William Travis were not easy to research as they had far less personal written history left behind than Crockett who had before coming to Texas written his autobiography and having been a U.S. Congressman, Bough does take a few liberties and much about Bowie and Travis are taken from interviews of family and those who knew them, but this was really the only means available to write a history of these men. i have not seen or read the later 1985 edition, so i cannot comment on it, but the original was excellent.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars outlaws, fugitives from the U S, pirates, October 3, 2007

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I. M. C. Garcia "leon ecijano" (Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Q: Roo, Mexico lindo) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rendezvous at the Alamo: Highlights in the Lives of Bowie, Crockett, and Travis (Bison Book) (Paperback)

Why Nance, the magnificent writer spend and lost his valious time with this kind of pirates? you should read the othe Nance's books like, "after san jacinto" and "atack and counter atack" and sorry for my poor english, I am a simple spanish speaking historian...