Bill groneman biography

Eyewitness to the Alamo by Bill Groneman (Lone Star Publications, June 1, 2001, 288 pages)

Biography or Autobiography?

Which of these is likely to be more historically accurate, biography or autobiography? One is an individual’s personal account of their life and times.

The other, an outsiders attempt at impartiality and objectivity about their subject.

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The autobiographer may choose to omit certain aspects of their lives for one reason or another, whereas the biographer may include those same items from the perspective of a neutral observer in the interest of painting a more complete portrait.

But what happens if there were no one left to tell the tale? How then do we know what happened, the real chain of events, the emotions, the bravery or heroism, the actual story?

Such is the case with epic moments in history such as the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Now, a century and one half later later, many of the details have Grimes, Albert Calvin (1817–1836) - TSHA QAJ