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Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
"Three Roads to the Alamo" is the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis--the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history--and about what really happened in that battle.
Paperback, 816 pages
Published
May 1st 1999
by Harper Perennial
(first published 1998)
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I was born too late for the coonskin-cap craze that followed the release of the Disney television series about Davy Crockett (later repackaged in the magisterial Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier). That didn't keep me from following my own Crockett obsession. I had a coonskin cap, of course, along with a fringed shirt made by my mother, a pair of mocassins, a plastic knife from Halloween, and a long-rifle cap gun purchased on a trip to the Black Hills (which replaced a hockey stick, which...more
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I picked up this book several years ago after reading Empires Lost and Won The Spanish Heritage in the Southwest. I realized how little I knew about the Southwest and wanted something a little more substantial. I figured reading about the Alamo would be fun, given the outsize personalities and its legendary status in American history.
I really wasn't expecting to learn as much as I did. I can't think of another non-fiction book I've read that pulled off what Davis did in Three Roads ...more
I really wasn't expecting to learn as much as I did. I can't think of another non-fiction book I've read that pulled off what Davis did in Three Roads ...more
Everyone has heard about the Alamo. Everyone has heard about David Crockett and Jim Bowie, and perhaps William Travis. These men are forever enshrined in glory and legend, thanks to the tragic event of March 6, 1836, the day the Alamo fell to Santa Anna’s army.
While Crockett was a legend, or at least a celebrity (perhaps the first true American celebrity) before the Alamo, Bowie and Travis were not well-known. Their lives were a rough mix of fact, exaggerations, and legend. William ...more
While Crockett was a legend, or at least a celebrity (perhaps the first true American celebrity) before the Alamo, Bowie and Travis were not well-known. Their lives were a rough mix of fact, exaggerations, and legend. William ...more
This tri-fold biography is an excellent work in every way. Good biographies can be dry reading due to their thoroughness, but Davis does a good job of keeping the story moving. The three men whose legends became immortality at the Alamo, Bowie, Travis, and Crockett, deserve the complete coverage that Davis gives them. Some of the details of their earlier lives can prove surprising to readers of more heroic treatments. Bowie's shady deals with slave trading, for example, come to light. The m...more
Well done triple biography of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis. As another reviewer has stated, the book isn't so much about the Alamo but rather the lives of these three men up until then, and how the mythology of their lives was created afterwards. Extensively researched with a deep bibliography and 150 pages of footnotes!
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Fascinating combined biographies of David Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Barrett Travis, heavily footnoted--Davis did his homework!
Fascinating combined biographies of David Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Barrett Travis, heavily footnoted--Davis did his homework!
James Bowie was not a nice man. And Daniel Boone actually did sort of wrestle bears. Who'd have thunk it?
An interesting book. Had some parts that were really great and some that were really bad. I'm giving the book a rating of three because part of the book would be a five while another part would be a one. I really liked William Davis' writing style and ability, so I will probably read other books by him if I can get my hands on them. This book, however, was not necessarily a book that I would recommend, mostly due to some of the content.
Texas history, but very enlightening. Gotta be a Texas history buff.
I have a sickness-- I can't finish my book club books.
That being said, what I did read of this book, I really enjoyed. I felt like it really went into the lives and backgrounds and time of each of the men. I learned more in the 250 page I read than I had in living in Texas for 10 years.
Great book.
That being said, what I did read of this book, I really enjoyed. I felt like it really went into the lives and backgrounds and time of each of the men. I learned more in the 250 page I read than I had in living in Texas for 10 years.
Great book.
Interesting look at the 1830s and the paths three Americans -- Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett and Wm. Travis -- took to their ultimate destination: the Alamo. Mexican politics of the time, too, and their effect on the Mexican and North American population of Texas.
Awesome biographical stories of Davy Crocket, William Travis, and Jim Bowie who would all ultimately die at their last stand in The Alamo.
This book is a brick. Hard to get done with. Crockett, Bowie and Travis flawed men who became American legends. OK for Alamo history buffs.
Hope fully this will be a good book I have heard a lot of good things about it.
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