Rick Range: What really happened to David Crockett at the Alamo? – Pratt on Texas 12/18/2025

The Alamo, where lives were given for our Liberty. ©2010 Pratt on Texas

Famous Texas cold case mystery solved: What really happened to David Crockett at the Alamo. Did he go down fighting or, was he captured and executed by Mexican dictator General Santa Anna?

Rick Range joins us to discuss the book David Crockett Went Down Fighting: How We Know It. Range and fellow researcher Phil Guarnieri put to rest a longtime controversy over what happened to Crockett at the Alamo.

The book recently won the prestigious 2025 Best Indie Book Award for the category of Best Non-Fiction: American History.

You know Rick Range from his Save the Alamo work.

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