According to the Land Office, many of the items will return to the Alamo for the first time since 1836, when it was the site of a 13-day siege and battle in the war for Texas independence from Mexico. The agency did not say when the items would be on public display.
Rock singer and Texana artifact collector Phil Collins will come to San Antonio this week to announce the donation of his collection to the Alamo, the Texas General Land Office said Tuesday.
Collins, a multiple Grammy Award winner and avowed Alamo devotee, will announce the donation at the Alamo at 10 a.m. Thursday. He is believed to have the largest private collection of Texas Revolution artifacts, most stored at his home in Switzerland.
The collection, documented in Collins’ 2012 book, “The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector’s Journey,” includes items thought to have been owned by Alamo defenders Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett, as well as a receipt signed by commander William Barret Travis for “30 heads of beeves” to feed his men.
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