Links to the Alamo
If anything about Sam is for certain, it is that he has been deeply linked with Westerns. This has a lot to do with his features and the tough-guy attitude. But there’s more to it, as had a significant and poignant family history of love of the Old West. “My family had a relative in the Alamo,” Sam had once said.
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He also added that he had “a history in Texas.” And for most of us, Texas and Westerns go hand in hand. Sam knows all about the Battle of the Alamo, which was indeed a defeat, but a pivotal occurrence during the Texas Revolution. It was at that time that the Republic of Texas gained independence from Mexico.