I'm going to say there's a lot of dramatic license in the details. Before I would pass final judgement on it on other as entertainment, I would like to have stack reader privlidges and a few days in the locked-white gloves requried areas in the libraries at TAMU and UT.

Just bloody awful, so awful that I don't even know where to start. The Texas revolution was fought east of I-35, in rolling green farm and pastureland, interspersed with areas of dense forest. There was no "cowboy" desert, with vast cliffs and scenic views, only in the minds of Hollywood screenwriters. I kept expecting the Apaches to attack.

The Alamo had exactly *two* Black people, a volunteer's concubine, who was killed in the fighting, and W.B. Travis' personal slave, who Santa Ana spared to demonstrate his racial liberalism. Emily West, if she even did exist, was never anywhere near the Alamo, and had nothing to do with Houston, or the army.

Deaf Smith had *nothing* to do with the Texas Rangers, nothing of which even remotely existed until well after the Republic was formed. The thinking behind the Rangers, and their name, was of English origins, not Mexican.

That's just the high points. I've watched two episodes, but I fear the battle of San Jacinto may put my little TV in too much danger. No doubt it will be fought in the desert among towering cliffs, with Sterling Haden hoping the US calvary shows up in time to save them from the Apaches...

JLF

Certainly not a historically accurate account of Texas Independence. Lonesome Dove was fiction loosely based on the lives of Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight. Texas Rising is fiction loosely based on the events and people involved in Texas Independence.

There are things I am grateful for;

1. Santa Anna is shown as the cruel despot he was.
2. The Comanche are shown as the murdering raiders of homesteads they were.
3. Texans are shown as Americans in search of freedom from a despotic government as they were.

There are things I really don't like;

Jack Hays and Bigfoot Wallace are shown as bumbling hapless cartoon characters and they were certainly not that.

The story of Emily West/Morgan is all twisted up and entirely wrong.

Taken as a whole it is about a C+ fictional drama.

No sense boys getting spun up about it not being what it was never intended to be.