And when I say novelty, I mean very novel. In more than one of these establishments you can buy a stuffed armadillo sucking a Lone Star beer. Maybe charging a hundred bucks for it. Had Davy Crockett, or Fess Parker or John Wayne for that matter, survived the Alamo, they probably would have celebrated with a Lone Star or two. And an armadillo if one was handy.
Nobody's really sure.
There are few eyewitness accounts and no elaborate maps detailing strategy. William Travis, the Alamo's commander, died in what is now the lobby of a very large post office. After the battle most of the Alamo was torn down, so it couldn't be used as a fort again. The Alamo became a warehouse, a feed store and a great many other things before it was preserved around the turn of the century. Before that, of course, it had assumed a very prominent place in American lore it holds to this very day.