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Alamo’s New Defender

by | Feb 13, 2011 | Features & Gunfights

How—and why—a young man brings a legendary Alamo figure to life, 175 years after the battle.  
James Butler Bonham faced his moment of truth in the pre-dawn of March 6, 1836. He and a handful of Texians reportedly manned an elevated artillery position at the back of the church at the Mission San Antonio de Valero—better known as the Alamo. Mexican soldiers were coming through the front door and charging up the dirt an


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