Gary Gauvin

“Bowie was a seasoned swindler, always on the make, a man who fled to Texas rather than face the consequences of a series of land frauds he had attempted back in Arkansas and Louisiana.”
― Bryan Burrough, Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

“It is one of the Texas Revolt’s dark little secrets that, even after the Mexican “invasion”—or perhaps because of it—the great mass of Texians and Tejanos wanted nothing to do with Travis or the Alamo or fighting Mexican soldiers. Most had never wanted to revolt in the first place.”
― Bryan Burrough, Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

“Let us pause for a moment to consider the irony of a Mexican government determined to stop the flow of illegal American immigrants. You just have to relish it. The only thing missing is a Mexican president promising to build a wall.”
― Bryan Burrough, Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

“Yet few remember today that before Santa Anna was Texas’s enemy, he was its friend. He is a singular figure in Mexican history, a man who held the presidency eleven times in twenty-two years.”
― Bryan Burrough, Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth