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Emily West became remembered as Emily Morgan. The Emily Morgan Hotel overlooking the Alamo was named incorrectly in her honor. She would have been there in April 1836 when Mexican cavalrymen ...
Statues of West, also known through folklore as Emily Morgan, and Texian spy Hendrick Arnold were unveiled Thursday at the Alamo, marking the first time the mission and battle site has ...
but unlike her fictionalized co-stars — Brendan Fraser's "white native" Billy Anderson or Ray Liotta's vengeful Alamo-survivor, Lorca, for example — Emily D. West is a real-life folk heroine ...