LEADER 03873nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910969170803321 005 20251116221913.0 010 $a1-60344-347-9 035 $a(CKB)2560000000051061 035 $a(OCoLC)680622482 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10411768 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000459568 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11299971 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000459568 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10461650 035 $a(PQKB)10026137 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037756 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1117 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037756 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10411768 035 $a(OCoLC)777465906 035 $a(BIP)35540323 035 $a(BIP)27911899 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000051061 100 $a20090903d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow did Davy die? and why do we care so much? /$fDan Kilgore and James E. Crisp 205 $aCommemorative ed., enl. 210 $aCollege Station $cTexas A&M University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (121 p.) 225 1 $aElma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ;$vno. 36 300 $a"First chapter of publication consists of complete text and notes of original edition. Second chapter is all new material and notes."--ECIP data view comments. 300 $aPortion comprising original text first published in 1978 under the title: How did Davy die? 311 08$a1-60344-194-8 330 $aJust over thirty years ago, Dan Kilgore ignited a controversy with his presidential address to the Texas State Historical Association and its subsequent publication in book form, "How Did Davy Die?" After the 1975 release of the first-ever English translation of eyewitness accounts by Mexican army officer Jose Enrique de la Pena, Kilgore had the audacity to state publicly that historical sources suggested Davy Crockett did not die on the ramparts of the Alamo, swinging the shattered remains of his rifle "Old Betsy." Rather, Kilgore asserted, Mexican forces took Crockett captive and then executed him on Santa Anna's order. Soon after the publication of "How Did Davy Die?, " the "London Daily Mail" associated Kilgore with "the murder of a myth;" he became the subject of articles in "Texas Monthly" and the "Wall Street Journal;" and some who considered his historical argument an affront to a treasured American icon delivered personal insults and threats of violence. Now, in this enlarged, commemorative edition, James E. Crisp, a professional historian and a participant in the debates over the De la Pena diary, reconsiders the heated disputation surrounding "How Did Davy Die?" and poses the intriguing follow-up question, ." . . And Why Do We Care So Much?" Crisp reviews the origins and subsequent impact of Kilgore's book, both on the historical hullabaloo and on the author. Along the way, he provides fascinating insights into methods of historical inquiry and the use--or non-use--of original source materials when seeking the truth of events that happened in past centuries. He further examines two aspects of the debate that Kilgore shied away from: the place and function of myth in culture, and the racial overtones of some of the responses to Kilgore's work. 410 0$aElma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ;$vno. 36. 607 $aAlamo (San Antonio, Tex.)$ySiege, 1836 607 $aTexas$xHistoriography 676 $a976.8/04092 700 $aKilgore$b Dan$f1921-1995.$01871951 701 $aCrisp$b James E.$f1946-$01871952 701 $aKilgore$b Dan$f1921-1995.$01871951 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969170803321 996 $aHow did Davy die? and why do we care so much$94480979 997 $aUNINA