Some have asked where I got the picture of the Alamo. I got it from a section of the Dallas Morning News I saved a few years ago. It was on page 1 of Section F (Today section). It was the issue of Dec, 27, 1998. I have enjoyed the information and web-sites I have been sent pertaining to the Alamo. All, I am still interested in the "hump". I have read with great interest the writings of the work of the Army on the Alamo (Spanish for Cottonwood) in 1850 and they added the hump. I guess I am just a die-hard. I have looked at the pictures (best they have) of the Alamo in 1849. Ok, it does look like the Alamo. Yes, the hump is not there. Why would they "add" a hump? Could they actually been "restoring" the hump? Some of you that asked for the picture, I added to my Red River County e-mail group. I put it together only after the board was down for a few days. I did it incase it has problems again and if I want to send a picture or attachment that Rootsweb will not accept. If anyone wants me to remove them, I will graciously do so. If anyone wants to be added, I will be pleased to do that also. Contact me at jimg@cox-internet.com I have visited the Alamo 4 or 5 times if I have counted correctly and Goliad twice. Now Goliad is out in the backwoods. I also vested as boy the tomb of the men that drew the black beans and were shot. Jim Giddens Paris, Tx Remember the Alamo!!!