Chronicles Of History

@HistoriaJack Give Your Heart to the Hawks

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@JoePhillip82430 @AHC1776 Agree, Joe. Crazy to think that movie is that old and still looks that good.

@makehistorycool @AHC1776 Regardless of how Crockett died, he was a hero. The 2004 Alamo movie was by far the best depiction of an Alamo movie. Aside from Santa Anna portrayed being in his late 50s or early 60s, when he was actually 44 in real life, it was a great movie.

With The Alamo trending currently, I think it's only fitting to repost one of the best movie scenes of all-time.

@ustonymc Believe your assessment is probably most accurate, and for sure realistic. The legend and lore is still just too awesome. Hooked me in fourth grade!

I've studied the battle all my life. IMO, when the north wall was crumbling Crockett and his men, having driven off the Mexicans who came against their position, went to the aide of the north wall, on the way Crockett veered to the west seeing a desperate struggle going on... Crockett died fighting against the west wall along with some of his Tennesseans...

Saturday mornings in America, back when life was simple. No smartphones. No notifications. Just the house still quiet, a big wooden TV humming to life, and four kids glued to the screen watching cartoons in their pajamas. Simpler times. Better times.

@ustonymc There’s a lot of debate around it, for sure. My eight year old self won’t let me believe otherwise. Hoe do you think he died then?

@makehistorycool it didn't happen!

@sambeaux64 @OfficialAlamo Absolutely!

@makehistorycool @OfficialAlamo So much. Let me know when you want a recommendation or a tour guide. 🤠

@sambeaux64 @OfficialAlamo Wow. That’s saying a lot! Might be mine too but I’m sure there’s more to explore.

@makehistorycool @OfficialAlamo My fave spot in Texas, and that is a long list.

@sambeaux64 @OfficialAlamo Yes, twice. It’s amazing. San Antonio River Walk right there is also awesome.

@makehistorycool @OfficialAlamo Have you been to the Alamo?

@sambeaux64 @OfficialAlamo 100%. I find myself rewatching this moving about once every three years and NEVER regret it.

@makehistorycool FWIW the Alamo should always be trending, right @OfficialAlamo ? But now you’ve thrown a cravin on me and I’m watching that movie again ASAP.

American warriors. These type of young people is what this country was built on, and this type of spirit is how we will survive moving forward. God bless all of them.

@RaymondMcardle4 Absolutely!

@makehistorycool So much character in that face.

This is Sitting Bull. He let the camera see him — and even secured the right to sell his own photographs and autographs. Crazy Horse did the opposite. He left behind no verified photograph. Not one. That contrast says everything. One understood the power of image. The other became legend without it. And those eyes on Sitting Bull? Weathered. Unbroken. Defiant. Like a man who knew they could take his portrait — but never his spirit.

@MoundLore If you want the best oral Lakota history on Crazy Horse, I recommend LISTENING to this book. audible.com/pd/B002VA9NA0?…

@makehistorycool Curious?

There once was a man so feared by the U.S. Army, they never took his picture. So sacred to his people, they spoke his name in whispers. No signature. No speeches. But he changed history. And when they tried to erase him the land remembered.

Thank you for sharing your Crazy Horse thread. One of the few that’s out there and accurate. He’s the sole reason that started my love for western history and probably the person I’ve researched most, outside of Lewis and Clark. You’re correct. His lore is insane. In many ways, I believe he actually represents what a true “patriot” in spirit means = freedom.

@makehistorycool Crazy Horse lore is insane.

@TRPresLibrary @WinfieldM72 Hard to not be pulled west of the Missouri at some point in your life. Then, once you experience the freedom T.R. did on that hunt, hard to ever go back. Cool story, thanks for sharing

In September 1883, a 24-year-old New Yorker stepped off a train in the middle of the night at a tiny railroad crossing on the Little Missouri River. He was thin, bespectacled, wearing clothes entirely wrong for the frontier. The locals took one look and called him "the four-eyed dude." Theodore Roosevelt had come to hunt bison. His guide, a stocky barn superintendent named Joe Ferris, took one look at the soft easterner and figured he'd last a day. He was wrong. Over two miserable weeks of cold rain, blistered feet, and falls from horses, Roosevelt never complained. He got lost. He got soaked. He got knocked off his horse by a wounded buffalo. And he kept going. "He had grit," Ferris said later. "I liked him from the start." By the end of the hunt, Roosevelt had killed his first buffalo — and danced around the dead animal, beating it with his hat, so overcome with exhilaration that Ferris could only watch in amazement. Before he left, Roosevelt wrote a check for $14,000 and bought the Maltese Cross Ranch. Within two years, he'd be one of the Badlands' most respected citizens. The land he fell in love with is still there. Theodore Roosevelt National Park looks almost exactly as it did when he rode across it. And this July, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opens in Medora — the town where T.R.'s western story began — to tell the full story of how this place made him. Plan your visit at trlibrary.com/visit. Tickets are on sale now. #TheodoreRoosevelt #Medora #NorthDakota #Badlands #WalkInHisFootsteps #PresidentialLibrary #TRLibrary #VisitNorthDakota

@tgeiser97 Amazing. I live in CO. Still haven’t made it out there yet.

@makehistorycool I grew up near Pike’s Stockade. Not easy to get to and not what you’d expect.

A lot of people were asking for more on my earlier post about Zebulon Pike’s route through the West, so here it is. This one has been in the making for the last few weeks. Because the deeper I got into Pike, the clearer it became: this wasn’t just some footnote expedition. It was one of the wildest journeys in early American history — through the plains, up the Arkansas, into the mountains, across the dunes, down the Rio Grande, and straight into Spanish hands. Most people know Pikes Peak. Almost nobody knows what Zebulon Pike and his men actually went through. I wrote the full story here: chroniclesofhistory.com/american-histo…

@AHC1776 @sambeaux64 Thank you for sharing this. I’ll need to get mods familiar with your site. Just now seeing it!

@sambeaux64 @makehistorycool Zebulon Pike — American Explorer americanhistorycentral.com/entries/zebulo…

1806–1807: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike leaves St. Louis with a small band of soldiers, tasked with exploring the Louisiana Purchase, finding the Red River’s source, and scouting the fuzzy border with Spanish New Spain. What follows is one of the wildest American expeditions of the era — and it carved a path straight through what is now Colorado. 🏔️ Two maps. One modern overlay showing Pike’s Trail snaking from the Missouri River through Pawnee & Osage villages, across the plains, up the Arkansas, past Pikes Peak, Royal Gorge, Great Sand Dunes, and down the Rio Grande to Santa Fe, Chihuahua, and eventual release at Natchitoches. The other? Pike’s own 1810 chart of the “Internal Part of Louisiana” — raw, hand-drawn intelligence from the frontier.

@WildManGlobal Yes. Hard to put it down.

@makehistorycool Highly recommend...