IN THE ALAMO Most of the people in San Antonio were asleep when the dripping figure of a half unconscious boy on a great horse galloped toward them in that momentous dawn.

He was without hat or serape.

He was bareheaded and his rifle was gone.

He was shouting "Up! Up! Santa Anna and the Mexican army are at hand!" But his voice was so choked and hoarse that he could not be heard a hundred feet away.
Davy Crockett, James Bowie and a third man were standing in the Main Plaza.

The third man, like the other two, was of commanding proportions.
He was a full six feet in height, very erect and muscular, and with full face and red hair.