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Post by stuart on Jul 28, 2007 15:46:38 GMT -5
As some of you may recall, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away we discussed an author named Frank Templeton who once wrote a truly awful novel called "Margaret Ballantyne; or the Fall of the Alamo" back in 1907. It turned out on closer investigation that although he was a rotten novelist, Templeton was also a dedicated researcher - the Tom Lindley of his day, who spent years studying the Alamo and its defenders. One of the fruits of his research, carried out at a time when some of the defenders and many of their relatives were still alive, was an annotated list of the known ones. This list was published as an appendix to the novel and appears to have been heavily relied upon by Amelia Williams.
Does anyone have access to that list?
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Post by Jim Boylston on Jul 28, 2007 16:11:24 GMT -5
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Post by Allen Wiener on Jul 28, 2007 17:13:30 GMT -5
I'm going to check for a copy in the Library of Congress and see if I can copy the list.
AW
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Post by TRK on Jul 28, 2007 17:27:25 GMT -5
Google Books hasn't digitized it yet.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Jul 28, 2007 17:44:58 GMT -5
Yeah - I was hoping for that myself, but no dice.
AW
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Post by stuart on Jul 29, 2007 9:49:33 GMT -5
It's interesting that this review mentions that the book includes the Wiley Martin sketch of Travis,which the writer of the article hadn't seen before. Was the Templeton book the first place this Travis portrait was published? Jim That was certainly the impression I had from the review as well, which is another reason why I think Templeton's research merits a closer look
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