FROM PRIVATE VISIONS TO PUBLIC CULTURE THE MAKING OF THE ALAMO

• Published in: Remembering the Alamo p. 61
• Main Author: RICHARD R. FLORES
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Texas Press 01.01.2010
• Subjects: Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Applied arts; Applied sociology; Architecture; Arts; Behavioral sciences; Buildings; Churches; Cognitive psychology; Communications; Cultural anthropology; Cultural dynamics; Cultural history; Cultural preservation; Cultural studies; Emotion; Emotional states; Ethnic groups; Ethnology; Folklore; Folkloristics; Historical methodology; Historiography; History; Institutional buildings; Legends; Literary studies; Literature; Love; Narrative history; Narratives; Poetics; Psychology; Religious buildings; Social sciences; Sociology; Sociology of religion; White people
• ISBN: 0292725396; 9780292725393

The Alamo is the most visited site in the state of Texas. As a place dedicated to the brave men who fought and died within its walls, this shrine remembers the “Battle of the Alamo” between “Texans” and “Mexicans” in 1836. However, unlike Gettysburg, the Alamo did not become a site of public culture soon after the battle. Instead, the physical structures of this former Spanish mission, already in ruins at the time of the battle, were used as a grain facility for the U.S. Quartermaster’s Depot, as a supply store, and as a saloon, to name several of its