Season 2 Episode 22: The Fall of the Alamo - The Runaway Scrape

<p>SEASON 2 EPISODE 22: <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/mexico/alamo"><strong>THE FALL OF THE ALAMO</strong></a> - <a href="https://books2read.com/u/m2rQNG"><strong>THE RUNAWAY SCRAPE</strong></a></p> <p>In 1899, after living in Texas for over 60 years, <strong>Dilue Rose Harris </strong>(1825–1914) recorded her childhood memories of the Texas Revolution. Her handwritten account of the Runaway Scrape speaks to the hardship civilian families endured while trying to flee from Texas in 1836, and the actual handwritten copies are with the <a href="https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/"><strong>Bullock Museum</strong></a> in downtown Austin. In addition, I have a copy on yellowed pages that were typed and corrections made by a family member in the early 1900s.</p> <p>In my first edition, <a href="https://books2read.com/u/m2rQNG"><strong>The Yellow Rose</strong></a>, and later in the second edition, The <a href="https://books2read.com/u/m2rQNG"><strong>Rose of Brays Bayou</strong></a>, I found it more exciting to write about all the women's adversities as they tried to escape Santa Anna's wrath. Just as an example.</p> <p>There was a mention in the book of a man trying to carry his horse across a swollen rushing creek. It mentioned an alligator with its tail in the air. That's all. From duck hunting on the large Eagle Lake that surrounds our small town, I ran into a mother alligator protecting her young more than once. She takes the job seriously. And there were stories of guides crossing the circle they were swimming, and the gator would cut their canoe in half with its tail. I used this knowledge to address a more exciting narrative regarding the alligator in the book. Nowadays, this is called <a href="https://www.writermag.com/improve-your-writing/nonfiction/historical-fiction-and-creative-nonfiction/#:~:text=In%20a%20work%20of%20historical,all%20of%20it%20is%20historical)."><strong>"Creative Historical Nonfiction." </strong></a>The fact or the truth is that a man lost his life cutting across the path of the gato