The Fall of the Alamo by Robert Onderdonk - Limited Edition

Crockett's Last Stand When you think of the fall of the Alamo, do you imagine Davy Crockett, fighting to the bitter end, defiantly swinging "ol' Betsy" over his head?   If so, this is were the image comes from. In 1901, historian James DeShields commissioned Robert Jenkins Onderdonk to paint "Crockett's last fight." Two years later the artist presented him with what you see here: The Fall of the Alamo. Onderdonk knew from his research that Crockett and his Tennesseans had been assigned to defend the area between the Alamo Church and the Low Barrack, which was fortified by a wooden palisade. He also knew that witnesses to the aftermath, Susanna Dickinson, Maria Catanon Villanueva, and Joe (slave of Col. Travis), had reported Crockett's body in that area. To depict Crockett himself, the artist studied portraits from the 1830s. To stage the scene, he recruited his sons and their friends act it out with period weaponry.  Cinematic is a good word to describe the result. Onderdonk said he w