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Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas QUOTES

Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas QUOTES

1 " Everyone has the seventh-grade story where, you know, they make the field trip and then all the white kids start treating them differently,” says Ruben Cordova, a San Antonio art historian. “Davy Crockett’s [death], it’s sort of like a Chicano version of the Jewish Christ killers. If you’re looking at the Alamo as a kind of state religion, this is the original sin. We killed Davy Crockett. "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

2 " I know the name of your seventh-grade Texas History teacher.” When the Texan expresses skepticism that this could be possible, you smile and say, “Coach. "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

3 " From the beginning, the prospect of American settlements in Texas was entirely dependent on slavery. It was no secret. Everyone knew it. Austin would say it over and over and over: The only reason Americans would come to Texas was to farm cotton, and they would not do that without slaves. They really didn’t know any other way. "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

4 " It is one of the Texas Revolt’s dark little secrets that, even after the Mexican “invasion”—or perhaps because of it—the great mass of Texians and Tejanos wanted nothing to do with Travis or the Alamo or fighting Mexican soldiers. Most had never wanted to revolt in the first place. "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

5 " We stand on the shoulders of revisionist authors such as Andrew Torget, Andrés Tijerina, Jesús F. de la Teja, Jeff Long, and Paul D. Lack, whose work is an antidote to the “Heroic Anglo Narrative” that’s held sway in Texas for going on two hundred years. "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

6 " The most notable book to support this hypothesis, Andrew J. Torget’s groundbreaking 2015 Seeds of Empire, proved enormously influential "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

7 " No, history doesn’t really change. But the way we view it does. In Texas, the history written by generations of white people is now being challenged by those who see the same events very differently. And man oh man, does that piss a lot of people off. "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

8 " Settling in New York, de Zavala spent the next two years authoring a pair of well-received books, including a U.S. travelogue, Journey to the United States of North America, that’s sometimes compared to Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

9 " Let us pause for a moment to consider the irony of a Mexican government determined to stop the flow of illegal American immigrants. You just have to relish it. The only thing missing is a Mexican president promising to build a wall. "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

10 " Yet few remember today that before Santa Anna was Texas’s enemy, he was its friend. He is a singular figure in Mexican history, a man who held the presidency eleven times in twenty-two years. "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

11 " Bowie was a seasoned swindler, always on the make, a man who fled to Texas rather than face the consequences of a series of land frauds he had attempted back in Arkansas and Louisiana. "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

12 " Of the 1,800 people living in Austin’s colony in 1825, one in four was enslaved.7 "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

13 " Nothing is wanted but money, and negros are necessary to make it. —Stephen F. Austin, 1832 "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas

14 " Austin was not some pro-slavery zealot. "

― Bryan Burrough , Forget the Alamo: The True Story of the Myth That Made Texas