About this tour
By 1900 the Alamo's Long Barrack — the actual walls the defenders died behind — was a grocery warehouse slated for demolition, and it took a bitter, very public feud between two strong-willed women to save it. This walk follows that fight: Adina De Zavala, who barricaded herself inside the crumbling building for three days in 1908, and Clara Driscoll, the wealthy patron whose money — and whose faction of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas — ultimately won control of the site in court. It's a story with no tidy hero, just two women who, in very different ways, both refused to let the Alamo disappear.