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Bill Hutton's History Of America

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
May
Year
1976
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ALL ABOUT THE ALAMO

Jack Ruby is at the Alamo. Jack Ruby and Jim Bowie and David Crockett are at the Alamo, an old well built Spanish Mission with cool floors and green plants & servants move from rooms silent as new butter. They have guns with forged barrels and gun powder and a desire to protect their land from seizure by the Mexican Army.
(When so many Americans moved to Texas, Mexico began to worry. For one thing Mexico was Catholic and many of the new Americans were Protestants. Also,  Mexican constitution forbade slavery, yet many of these settlers had slaves. Mexico did not want the settlers to make the laws themselves, but these Americans were used to governing themselves. Finally Texas, still Mexican property, declared its independence. Mexico would not grant this wish, and, with several hundred trained soldiers, Santa Anna marched north to the Alamo.)
Jack Ruby, sweating in his bunk at the bulb above his head and of memories from the club he owned, is at the Alamo to save Texas.

HERE COME THE MEXICANS!

2000 Mexicans come over the white wall. They are dressed in white uniforms and carry ammunition belts and canteens and a food pouch in the exact same fashion. They all have mustaches and scars above their lips. All weigh the same are the same height and move across the wall silent as, new butter through a servants' quarters in Spain. Someone's watch explode in a frenzy of tired parts & the fight is over, the Alamo seized.
Santa Anna finished a small chicken that night and smacked his lips around a toothpick.  1836.

Bill Hutton's History of America was published by the Coach House Press, Toronto/Detroit Copyright © 1968 by Bill Hutton.

"Remember the Alamo."