David Crockett’s Non-Execution Death and Apotheosis at the Alamo March 6, 1836

At long last, it is time for a new and fresh look at David Crockett’s death at the Alamo. In recent years, it has become fashionable in books, a celebrated Mexican memoir, and the latest Alamo film (2004) to emphasize that Crockett’s death at the Alamo was less than heroic–a captured Crockett was allegedly executed on General Santa Anna’s direct orders. But this was simply not the case. This timely book tells the truth about Crockett’s death in the heat of battle on the early morning of March 6, 1836.