Annotated Bibliography

Primary Sources

"Antonio López De Santa Anna." In American History, ABC-CLIO, 2019. Image. Accessed
January 23, 2019. https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1108802.

This picture will be a good visual for the biography section that I will write on Santa Anna.

"Battle of the Alamo." In American History, ABC-CLIO, 2019. Image. Accessed January 23,
2019. https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/290670.

This picture is good for my website because it gives people a visual to match with the
information that I am giving them.

Caro, Ramon Martinez. “A True Account of the First Texas Campaign and the Events
Subsequent to the Battle of San Jacinto.” Translated by Carlos E. Castañeda. In The
Mexican Side of the Texan Revolution <1836>. Dallas, TX: P.L. Turner Company, 1928.

Carlos E. Castañeda is a graduate of the University of Texas, earning his doctorate in Texas
History there in 1932. He taught Spanish at the College of William and Mary, proving his skill in
translation is accurate. This source gives me a point of view other than the Texans that actually
tells the information quite truthfully. It is written from the Mexican side of the war, providing
unbiased information that is uninfluenced by Santa Anna.

"Davy Crockett Falls at Battle of the Alamo." In American History, ABC-CLIO, 2019. Image.
Accessed January 23, 2019. https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/290252.

This picture will be a good visual for the section in my website where I talk about the capture of
the Alamo.

"Davy Crockett." In American History, ABC-CLIO, 2019. Image. Accessed January 23, 2019.
https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/272905.

This picture will be a good visual for the biography section that I will write on David Crockett.

De Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez. “Manifesto Relative to his Operations in the Texas Campaign
and His Capture.” Translated by Carlos E. Castañeda. In The Mexican Side of the Texan
Revolution <1836>. Dallas, TX: P.L. Turner Company, 1928.

Carlos E. Castañeda is a graduate of the University of Texas, earning his doctorate in Texas
History there in 1932. He taught Spanish at the College of William and Mary, proving his skill in
translation is accurate. This source provides a biased opinion on the events at San Jacinto from
the perspective of Santa Anna. This source is not his full biased opinion because it was written
under scrutiny by the people of Texas.
"Goliad Massacre." In American History, ABC-CLIO, 2019. Image. Accessed February 4, 2019.
https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1886697.

This picture will fit in well on the page that I will have on the massacre at Goliad.

"Jim Bowie." In American History, ABC-CLIO, 2019. Image. Accessed February 4, 2019.
https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/270435.

This image of James Bowie will be a perfect illustration of a leader within the Alamo.

"Siege of the Alamo, 1836." In American History, ABC-CLIO, 2019. Image. Accessed February
4, 2019. https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1839138.

This picture will give a wonderful depiction of the charging and fighting that happened
throughout the Battle of the Alamo.

"Santa Anna Surrenders to Sam Houston." In American History, ABC-CLIO, 2019. Image.
Accessed February 4, 2019. https://americanhistory.abc-
clio.com/Search/Display/1266636.

This image is important in conveying how the Texans triumphed in the winning of the war, while
Santa Anna had the tragedy of losing the war even when the Battle of the Alamo went the
opposite way for both sides.

Tornel and Mendivil, José María. “Relations between Texas, the United States, and Mexico.”
Translated by Carlos E. Castañeda. In The Mexican Side of the Texan Revolution
<1836>. Dallas, TX: P.L. Turner Company, 1928.

Carlos E. Castañeda is a graduate of the University of Texas, earning his doctorate in Texas
History there in 1932. He taught Spanish at the College of William and Mary, proving his skill in
translation is accurate. This source is a great provider of information for the relationship between
Texas and Mexico, giving background as to how Santa Anna broke relations with the Texans.
Travis, William. Travis' 1836 Victory or Death Letter from the Alamo. Edited by Texas State
Library and Archives Commission.
www.tsl.texas.gov/sites/default/files/public/tslac/landing/documents/TravisLtr_Trans.pdf
The Texas State Library and Commission is a state run program that helps the citizens of Texas
find and use public sources. This will be one of the most important primary sources because it is
the only source that is written by a Texan inside the Alamo. It provides a sense of triumph
because it rallies the Texas people to “Remember the Alamo!”
Urrea, José. “Diary of the Military Operations of the Division which Under His Command
Campaigned in Texas.” Translated by Carlos E. Castañeda. In The Mexican Side of the
Texan Revolution <1836>. Dallas, TX: P.L. Turner Company, 1928.
Carlos E. Castañeda is a graduate of the University of Texas, earning his doctorate in Texas
History there in 1932. He taught Spanish at the College of William and Mary, proving his skill in
translation is accurate. This primary source is written by the military leader who helped Santa
Anna take Goliad and later the Alamo. He provides his opinion also from the Mexican side on
how the war went.

Secondary Sources

Barr, Alwyn. “Reviewed Work: Slaughter at Goliad: The Mexican Massacre of 400 Texas
Volunteers by Jay A. Stout.” The Journal of Southern History 75, no. 3 (2009): 793-794.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27779059

Alwyn Barr earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and he is the former
chairman of the history department at Texas Tech University, specializing in the history of the
American South. This source provides a brief explanation of the events at Goliad. I believe that
this source will be important in writing about the events before the battle.

Chariton, Wallace O. 100 Days in Texas. Plano, TX: Wardware Publishing, 1990.

Wallace O. Chariton graduated from Texas Tech University and was raised in San Antonio, the
hometown of the Alamo. This source reports the events that occurred leading up to the Battle of
the Alamo. It will be useful for talking about the siege of the Alamo and for talking about the
events leading up to the Battle.

Chariton, Wallace O. Exploring the Alamo Legends. Plano, TX: Wardware Publishing, 1990.

Wallace O. Chariton graduated from Texas Tech University and was raised in San Antonio, the
hometown of the Alamo. This source includes many good quotes and pictures of people in the
Alamo, so it could be a good source of Alamo defender opinions and biases. These pictures and
the map in the book are good for beautifying my website.

Groneman, Bill. Alamo Defenders. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1990.

Bill Groneman received his bachelors degree in history from Manhattan College in 1974. This
source includes a list of people who fought in the Alamo and a diagram of the Alamo. This
diagram could be helpful in showing how this was a very poor fort that these people were
fighting over.

Hatch, Thom. Encyclopedia of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &
Company, 1999.

Thom Hatch is an author who specializes in the American West, earning himself the Spur Award
from the Western Writers of America. This book is very dense and difficult to read, but it is very
helpful if I want to read a little bit more about one smaller topic within the Alamo such as the
immortal 32 or Santa Anna. This source also commonly puts the Battle of the Alamo in
perspective relative to the other events of the Texas Revolution, giving a timeline of all of the
critical events of the Texas Revolution.

Murphy, Jim. Inside the Alamo. New York: Delacorte Press, 2003.

Jim Murphy graduated from Rutgers University and did graduate work at Radcliffe College. This
source seems to have an in deep amount of facts on the Alamo while also providing many
pictures and drawings related to the Alamo. These pictures and photos are a great help in
creating a visual of what was happening in the battle and what some of the individuals looked
like.

Warren, Robert Penn. Remember the Alamo! New York: Random House, 1958.

Robert Penn Warren graduated with his Masters from the University of California, Berkeley and
earned his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University. This source gives many details and
the whole story in what happened in the Alamo during its siege by the Mexican Army.