Q, Your reference link contradicts your assertion that the Ford brothers were given the reward money. I can't personally resolve the issue but I can probably go look it up.

I like a good legend as well as (or better than) the next guy but I've always resented the way history is whitewashed to the point that we no longer remember who we are and where we came from. I think it's important to remember both the legend and the history. The reasons for differences in the two can be as informative as the stories themselves.

We like to “remember the Alamo” in story and song and the “heroes” who died there. We tend to forget that they were actually a gang of pro-slavery zealots who wanted to cut established territory out of the Sovereign state of Mexico because Mexico had outlawed slavery.

      - Mark