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If you need extra toilet paper for a camping trip, this book works perfectly. It is the only good thing about it. These authors have hopped onto the contemporary bandwagon with little knowledge of what they’re actually writing about. They claim that the legacy of the Alamo is only in memory of white slave owners. They completely shove aside the true historical facts of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution to make this conclusion. Amos Pollard, an Alamo defender, was a staunch abolitionist. David Crockett, probably the most famous defender of the Alamo, lost his career in Congress because he stood up for the civil rights of Native Americans. Samuel McCulloch Jr., was a free African American who was one of the most adamant supporters of Texas’ complete independence from Mexico. Additionally, Texas was created by both Anglos and Tejanos. Just take a look at the signatures on its Declaration of Independence. If you do, then you’ve already done more research than these authors did. “Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier” was the first movie to show Crockett as a civil rights leader. John Wayne’s “The Alamo” was the first to portray how much the Tejanos did for the Texas Revolution. I guess these authors didn’t watch those movies though. In conclusion, the Texas Revolutionary Army consisted of: Tejanos, enslaved African Americans, free African Americans, abolitionists, slave traders, European foreigners, women, and even Native Americans. It’s a beautiful story of one the earliest and most culturally mixed armies in American History…but you don’t get to read about it in this waste of paper.