Stories Bigger Than Texas: The Alamo Podcast

Texas Trades

Stories Bigger Than Texas: The Alamo Podcast Episode 135: Texas Trades Leather working, blacksmithing, and fabric weaving: these skills are considered a bit antiquated today, but they were essential for surviving frontier life in 1830s Texas.   We reveal how the Alamo’s living historians learned their trades, the ways they keep old-fashioned techniques alive in the modern-day world, and the event taking place at the Alamo this weekend where you can learn about these Texas Trades. Featuring the Alamo's Senior Manger of Living History Robin Haynie; the Alamo's Senior Manager of Living History Vincent Yannicelli; Alamo living historian Mike Baehre; and Alamo wardrobe speciality Mike Weil. Attend Texas Trades at the Alamo: https://www.thealamo.org/visit/texas-trades Watch video on the Alamo's Living History Encampment: https://youtu.be/9HTQAw8XHzs?si=AC2zngf2gdUi4sqv Watch video on the Alamo's daily musket firing demonstrations: https://youtu.be/wmYkTgKW5JE?si=hF-Ite4B3nilyuec Send the Alamo Podcast a Text Message! (Please include name and contact information so we can respond.) [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2246751/fan_mail/new]

The Alamo Funeral Pyre Mystery

Stories Bigger Than Texas: The Alamo Podcast Episode 134: The Alamo Funeral Pyre Mystery   History makes clear: the bodies of the men who died defending the Alamo on March 6, 1836, were burned in a funeral pyre. But an enduring mystery has been, how many pyres there were?   We reveal how this mystery of history persists, why some eyewitness accounts have been called into question, and the prominent figures who have added to the debate. Featuring the Alamo's former curator Dr. Bruce Winders and Ron Current from the Still Current blog. Read the Still Current blog: https://stillcurrent.blog Send the Alamo Podcast a Text Message! (Please include name and contact information so we can respond.) [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2246751/fan_mail/new]

The Alamo De Parras Company

Stories Bigger Than Texas: The Alamo Podcast Episode 133: The Alamo De Parras Company If 1836 is the year we learned to Remember the Alamo, then 1803 is the year the Alamo became the Alamo. That’s when a group of soldiers from Alamo de Parras, Mexico, settled within the walls of an old Spanish mission, and changed the course of history.   We reveal why the Alamo Company came to San Antonio, how the town learned to call the mission by a new name, and why its soldiers were repeatedly called to make difficult decisions while staring down two revolutions. Featuring the Alamo's Senior Curator, Historian, & Lecturer Ernesto Rodriguez. See Andres Benites Courbiere sword: https://www.thealamo.org/fileadmin/assets/remember/podcast/andres_benites_courbiere_sword.jpg See 1805 plat showing how Spanish planned to convert the old mission convent into a military barracks: https://www.thealamo.org/fileadmin/_processed_/6/3/csm_37104-5-large_5bc2ccea74.jpg Send the Alamo Podcast a Text Message! (Please include name and contact information so we can respond.) [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2246751/fan_mail/new]

The Treaties Of Velasco

Stories Bigger Than Texas: The Alamo Podcast Episode 132: The Treaties Of Velasco May 14, 1836. On this day 190 years ago, the Texas Revolution ended – not with the firing of a weapon, but with the stroke of a pen.   We reveal how the Treaty of Velasco brokered peace between Texas and Mexico, why a secret, private treaty was also signed that day, and how Santa Anna played both governments’ self-interests to broker his own survival. Featuring historian and author Dr. Stephen Hardin. See the treaty documents: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/treasures/republic/velasco-01.html See newspaper reprint from the Alamo Collection: https://www.facebook.com/EmilyBaucumSATX/posts/pfbid0HWebjsQPsdRQHTrnMcX7mUeni7Jrj5RSYuEuj9MdBTCg4zRrvWuBwKv9D4PDAat2l Bonus Rewind Episode ⏮️ "San Jacinto's Infamous Prisoner" - https://youtu.be/T7XRysS5qBQ?si=mEOR_osEmsDEiYYy Send the Alamo Podcast a Text Message! (Please include name and contact information so we can respond.) [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2246751/fan_mail/new]

Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders

Stories Bigger Than Texas: The Alamo Podcast Episode 131: Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders   Just footsteps from where the world-famous Battle of the Alamo was fought, a new generation of frontiersman stepped up to fight for freedom. Legend has it, a future president recruited them inside the Menger Hotel bar - and with their signatures, wrote a new chapter of the Alamo’s already storied history.   We reveal why Theodore Roosevelt formed the Rough Riders, where in San Antonio they trained, and how the Alamo remembers the Rough Riders legacy today. Featuring the Alamo's Researcher Thomas Ledesma. View photo of the Alamo's Roosevelt statue: https://www.facebook.com/EmilyBaucumSATX/posts/pfbid02UuAVPucQ5ugWa5YpUckgxjmXj9AspZz4eQcfzcq3abxrWWXihAhVi8mRNWbxLqv6l [https://www.facebook.com/EmilyBaucumSATX/posts/pfbid02UuAVPucQ5ugWa5YpUckgxjmXj9AspZz4eQcfzcq3abxrWWXihAhVi8mRNWbxLqv6l] View photo of the war souvenir coconut on display: https://www.facebook.com/EmilyBaucumSATX/posts/pfbid0RtCnehBzqSHLb3fT5NuZiTu4i78Qni4h5R4pgdU37AwnyHXht7bbipRfqrRmSGFCl National Park Service essay on the Rough Riders: https://www.nps.gov/thrb/learn/historyculture/tr-rr-spanamwar.htm Theodore Roosevelt Association essay on the Rough Riders: https://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=991271&module_id=339473 Send the Alamo Podcast a Text Message! (Please include name and contact information so we can respond.) [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2246751/fan_mail/new]