April 16, 2004

Myth Understood

By ERIC HOOVER

Historians helped the makers of Disney's 'The Alamo' challenge some sacred stories. Go ahead, blame them.

When boys in Texas go to bed, sleep gallops them off to defend the garrison in San Antonio. At least that's where dreams took Stephen L. Hardin when he was growing up in McKinney, just north of Dallas. Instead of reading books aloud at night, his father made up stories, sound effects and all, about Davy Crockett, always ending with the line, "And then Davy rode off to the

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