Ep. 122: David Crockett - The Alamo (Part 4)

Bear Grease

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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On this week’s episode of Bear Grease, the final episode in our series on David Crockett, Clay Newcomb takes us on a deep dive into Davy’s death at the Alamo. He’ll look not just at the pop culture versions from John Wayne and Walt Disney, but also history’s best understanding of what really transpired. We’ll learn that it was far more important in US history than you might think. Clay talks with Wade Dillon, James Crisp, and of course, New York Times best-selling author, Robert Morgan about what led Crockett to Texas and what really happened at the Alamo. Did Crockett die fighting or was he executed…and why do we care? We really doubt you’re going to want to miss this one…

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1:00.4	The final episodes of these series are always somber for me.
1:04.5	I think we all know what's about to happen to our boy David Crocket.
1:08.8	I'm interested in the best information that we have about the Alamo, not the narrative
1:13.2	we've heard from the likes of John Wayne and Walt Disney, or maybe their narratives
1:18.4	were right.
1:20.0	Those nationalistic narratives have to be sorted through, because I'm mainly interested
1:25.2	in not that, but the inner workings and character and fabric of the man David Crocket.
1:31.9	I'm also interested in why people from Texas are so crazed about the Alamo and passionate
1:37.8	about how Crocket died.
1:39.6	We'll learn that it was far more important in US history than you might think.
1:44.4	Talley's comet soared over North America in 1835 and 36 and was blamed for some of
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