“I was interested in telling the Chicano side of American history, which both John Wayne and American textbooks have ignored,” Treviño said. Sam Houston he judged a drunken cocaine addict and—wait for it—a budding transvestite fond of wearing corsets and girdles. To Long, Bowie was utterly without merit, a “frontier shadow creature,” a thug fleeing a “lifetime” of “frauds and hoaxes.” Travis, well, Travis he got about right. Suddenly, it seemed, all anyone wanted to talk about was Texas history. The State Board of Education actually has standing orders that schoolchildren must be taught a “heroic” version of Alamo history.

Source: Daily Nation June 07, 2021 12:00 UTC