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in 1998. According to Greene, Tinkle's book "gives the essence of the Alamo story without attempting to exhaust history's explanation", and "is more revealing of the minds and wills that were behind the fateful decision to stay on to death" than other, later treatments of the battle. The book won
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demanded that their names be removed from the credits. Tinkle was also paid $ 800 for allowing the title of his book to be used in the theme song for this movie.
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two awards in 1959, from the Texas
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Tinkle married Maria Ofelia Garza on
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regards as the most historically accurate of all Alamo films. In 1985, the book was reprinted by
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