Word: alamo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Texas, of course, was once a republic in itself, a land where tradition makes bloody Alamo a Bunker Hill and Sam Houston a George Washington. It is now the largest state in the Union, the seat of the Democratic National Convention (at Houston). Bunker's Monthly, however, is no passing boom sheet, no harp twanging the glories of yesteryear. It is substantial in size, pleasing in appearance, broad in editorial content. New Yorkers and Californians can read it with profit...
...settlers "to redeem Texas from its wilderness state by means of the plow alone." Paradoxically, these people became loyal citizens of the Mexican Republic and ousted rebels from the land. But when Santa Anna, the Mexican general of the dark and cruel eyes, turned his guns on the Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio), a different story began. Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett and 180 Texans refused for eleven days to be ousted from the Alamo...
Dozens of men and mules died side-by-side with dry, festered tongues. Children were fed flies. Santa Anna brought up bigger guns, battered down the stone walls of the Alamo, butchered the remaining haggard Texans in cold blood. Only a Negro and a few women were spared. All through Texas cries went up: "Remember the Alamo." But Texans were not given to cries without action. To get Santa Anna, they chose a commander named Sam Houston, 6 ft., 3 in. in his moccasins, of whom President Andrew Jackson said: "Thank God, there is one man at least in Texas...
...primary unless Mrs. Ferguson's husband-manager could establish his loud charges of poll frauds. In Texas, Democratic nomination equals virtual election. Under the terms of a wager* Governess Ferguson was honor-bound to resign her executive position immediately. The lone-star state, state of the Alamo, of San Jacinto, of hard boiled sandslappers† and silken-tongued two-gun men, will now be governed by a onetime Sunday School teacher...
...worry about moving. Texas was on the point of revolution. He attended the Convention of San Felipe in 1835 (where he was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Texan Army), and dominated it with his eloquence. Word came that Santa Anna, the Mexican General, had invested the Alamo. In an hour, Sam Houston was leading a force to relieve the fort; but before he could do so it had fallen and its garrison had been massacred. But he met the Mexican Army at San Jacinto, routed it and took Santa Anna prisoner. Before the captive, Houston took a gnawed...