You get a sense that Travis never really believes something bad can happen to him.
It makes absolutely no sense of why they stayed there, except for the fact that these are men who, by and large, have never been in war. They know they're coming and yet still they stay there. Every other day they send off these plaintive, dramatic letters asking for reinforcement that, by and large, never came.īut the truly perplexing thing is that in the two weeks leading up to the arrival of Santa Anna's forces in San Antonio, Travis and Bowie are getting almost daily warnings of the progress. There has always been this great mystery of why on earth Travis and Bowie stay, and the best argument there is probably because they believe reinforcements would be forthcoming.
maybe 200 guys at essentially an indefensible open-air Spanish mission. Santa Anna is coming north with 6,000 troops. Author Interviews 'Born On A Mountaintop' Or Not, Davy Crockett's Legend Lives On
