Professor of History Paul Hutton received his fourth Western Heritage Award, this time for his article, “It was but a Small Affair: The Battle of the Alamo,” in the Feb. 2004 issue of Wild West magazine.
Photo: Professor Paul Hutton
“It was but a small affair,” declared General Santa Anna as he surveyed the ghastly carnage within the shattered walls of the Alamo on the morning of March 6, 1836. He could not have been more wrong. The battle inspired the Texans under Sam Houston to shatter Santa Anna’s army at San Jacinto on April 21. The forces the Alamo set in motion insured that victory, the independence of Texas and its eventual annexation to the United States, as well as the Mexican-American War that followed--leading to the creation of a continental nation.
Hutton’s evocative article addresses the powerful and timely theme of heroic sacrifice embodied in the Alamo saga, while also placing the famed battle within a national and even international context.
Hutton has won three previous Western Heritage Awards for his work in both print and in documentary filmmaking.
He received his award at a black tie gala at the National Cowboy Museum and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City recently.
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