NewsBreak By Chris Tomlinson
William Physick Zuber is surely smiling in heaven.
Zuber was the author of the biggest Alamo lie of all. He claimed that my great-great-grandmother’s cousin, Col. William Barrett Travis, drew a line in the sand with his sword and asked the men in the Alamo to cross over if they were ready to die for Texas independence.
Historians have long questioned the story’s authenticity since Zuber first published his tall tale in the Texas Almanac in 1873, nearly four decades after the battle. He later admitted that he invented some of the story! But Anglo Texans have relied on Zuber’s myth and others to justify ethnic cleansing and systemic racism for generations, and they refuse to give it up…
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