The city thrived as an outfitting center where pioneers gathered supplies before setting out into the wild west, and it soon adopted the nickname " the gateway to the west" .
I have a deep history in sodbusters, the first pioneers going out, and all types of...sort of people who were always never happy to be right where they were but always looking for something.
He had lived in it as a child when it was already disappearing, and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences, and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier.
The outnumbered Alamo defenders led by James Bowie, William Travis, and even famed frontiersman Davy Crockett eventually were overpowered, but the defeat galvanized the rest of Texas.