Rendezvous at the Alamo: Highlights in the Lives of Bowie, Crockett, and Travis

By Virgil E. Baugh

Book Overview

On March 6, 1836, the Alamo fell after a thirteen-day siege by General Antonio L pez 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803260741
• ISBN13: 9780803260740
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Story of the 3 Most Well Known Men in the Alamo

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.