[Theodore R.]

There were a handful of Anglo women and children in the Alamo who were spared by Lopez de Santa Anna. The survivors told others of the atrocity and what would happen if Mexican rule were challenged. Of course, some seven weeks later, Lopez de Santa Anna was captured in a cornfield by Houston, who promptly released him. Lopez de Santa Anna agreed to recognize the Rio Grande border of an independent Texas and Mexico, but the Mexican Senate refused to acknowledge.

This notion that Crockett was cowardly is recent and unsubstantiated, as I understand it.

[Non-Sequitur]

This notion that Crockett was cowardly is recent and unsubstantiated, as I understand it.

Which is my point. There are no substantiated accounts of Crockett's death from any source. All such stories of his death postdate the battle by weeks or months or even years. The John Wayne account of is death is just as possible as this movie's account.