Legacy of the Battle of the Alamo on myth. In the early 1950s John Wayne began developing a film based on the Battle of the Alamo. When he left his contract with Republic Pictures he was forced to leave behind a partial script. Republic Pictures had the script finished and developed into the 1955 movie "The Last Command". Although the film had its historical inaccuracies, it was the most detailed of the films on the Texas Revolution. Wayne continued to develop an Alamo movie, resulting in the 1960 film "The Alamo", starring Wayne as Davy Crockett. Although screenwriter James Edward Grant claimed to have done extensive historical
Legacy of the Battle of the Alamo covering the battle was not published until 1948, when John Myers Myers' "The Alamo" was released. Since then, a litany of books have followed, most notably Walter Lord's seminal work in 1961, "A Time to Stand". As the 19th century progressed, the battle began to appear as a plot device in many novels and plays. In 1869, novelists Jeremiah Clemens and Bernard Lile wrote fictionalized accounts of the battle. Novelist Amelia Barr produced her own fictional version, "Remember the Alamo", in 1888. In her book, "Alamo Images", Susan Pendergrast Schoelwer noted that in these early novels "the Alamo passages seem