American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett (48 page)

13
Crockett to George Patton, October 31, 1835, in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
210.

14
Ibid, 212.

15
Quoted in Haley,
Sam Houston,
page 110,
Red River Herald,
October 7, 1835.

16
Quoted in Haley,
Sam Houston,
109. Houston to Isaac Parker, 5 October 1835, in Williams and Barker,
Writings of Sam Houston,
vol. 1, 302.

17
Quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
28. Atlas Jones to Calvin Jones, November 13, 1835, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (SHC-UNC).

18
Davis,
Three Roads,
409.

19
Quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
29.

20
Calvin Jones to Edmund Jarvis, December 2, 1835, Jones Papers SHC-UNC. Also quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
29, and Davis,
Three Roads,
409.

21
Davis,
History of Memphis,
141.

22
Ibid.

23
Ibid, 143.

24
Ibid, 144-45.

25
Ibid, 146.

26
Ibid, 140.

27
Hardin,
Texian Illiad,
118. Stephen L. Hardin, “Gallery: David Crockett,”
Military Illustrated
23 (February-March, 1990): 28-30.

28
Bernard DeVoto,
Mark Twain’s America
(Boston, 1932), 3-4.

29
Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
36.

30
William F. Pope,
Early Days in Arkansas
(Little Rock, 1895), 183-84. Also quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
42.

31
Pope,
Early Days in Arkansas,
185. Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
44-46.
Arkansas Gazette,
November 17, 1835.

32
Arkansas Gazette,
November 17, 1835. Quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
44.

33
Quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
50. Vance Randolph,
We Always Lie to Strangers: Tall Tales from the Ozarks
(Westport, CT, 1951), 160.

34
David Crockett,
Davy Crockett’s Own Story, as Written by Himself
(New York, 1955), 255-58.

35
New York Sun,
January 12, 1836.
Arkansas Gazette,
May 15, 1955. Also in Davis,
Three Roads,
411.

36
Arkansas Gazette,
November 17, 1835. Also in Gary S. Zaboly, “Crockett Goes to Texas: A Newspaper Chronology,”
Journal of the Alamo Battlefield Association
1 (Summer, 1995): 7-8.

37
Derr,
Frontiersman,
227. Davis,
Three Roads,
412. Folmsbee and Catron, “David Crockett in Texas,”
East Tennessee Historical Society Publications
30 (1958), 50-51.

38
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
214. Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
77.

39
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
214, republished in
Niles Register,
L, 432-33, for August 27, 1836, from the Jackson, Tennessee,
Truth Teller.

40
Quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
71. Pat B. Clark,
The History of Clarksville and Old Red River Country, Texas
(Dallas, 1937), 5.

41
Claude V. Hall, “Early Days in the Red River Country,”
Bulletin of East Texas State Teacher’s College,
14: 49-70.

42
Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
70-71. Davis,
Three Roads,
412.

43
Crockett to Wiley and Margaret Flowers, January 9, 1836, quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
214-15.

44
Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
72-73.

45
Davis,
Three Roads,
413.

46
Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
94.

47
Derr,
Frontiersman,
227.

48
Davis,
Three Roads,
413, 694n. Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
122.

49
Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
100.

50
Ibid, 101. James Gaines to James W. Robinson, January 9, 1836, in William C. Binkley,
Official Correspondence of the Texan Revolution, 1835-1836,
2 vols. (New York, 1936).

51
Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
100;
Galveston
[Texas]
News,
January 9, 1898.

52
Morning Courier and New York Enquirer,
March 26, 1836.

53
Crockett to Margaret and Wiley Flowers, January 9, 1836. Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
216.

54
The shrewd and perceptive historian William C. Davis makes an observation that no other researcher, including Shackford, has: simply that the discrepancy in the date of the letter may be the result of Crockett having written it in at least two sittings over a few-day period. See Davis,
Three Roads,
695n.

55
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
217-19.

56
Crockett to Margaret and Wiley Flowers, January 9, 1836.

Chapter 15: “Victory or Death”

1
Houston to Jackson, February 13, 1833, in Williams and Barker,
Writings of Sam Houston,
vol. 1, 274-76.

2
Statement of Enlistments, January 14, 1836, in John H. Jenkins,
Papers of the Texas Revolution 1835-1836
(Austin, TX, 1973), vol. 4, 13. Amelia Williams, “A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo and the Personnel of Its Defenders, Chapter IV,”
Southern Historical Quarterly
37 (January 1934): 167. Folmsbee and Catron, “David Crockett in Texas,” 54.

3
Committee of Vigilance and Safety, January 18, 1836, in Jenkins,
Papers of the Texas Revolution,
vol. 4, 66. Quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
130.

4
Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
130.

5
Ibid, 130, 247n. Audited Military Claims, Republic of Texas, Texas State Library and Archives, Austin. Also in Davis,
Three Roads,
416. Shackford,
Man and Legend,
222.

6
Crockett to Flowers, January 9, 1836, Asbury Papers. Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
216.

7
Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
139. From Herbert Simms Kimble Letter, September 5, 1836, William Irving Lewis File, Daughters of the Texas Revolution Library, San Antonio.

8
Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
139.

9
Ibid.

10
Derr,
Frontiersman,
228.

11
Marques James,
The Raven
(Indianapolis, 1929), 224.

12
James C. Neill to Sam Houston, January 14, 1836, in Binkley,
Official Correspondence,
vol. 1, 295. Davis,
Lone Star Rising,
205.

13
Davis,
Lone Star Rising,
205.

14
Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
338. Davis,
Lone Star Rising,
205.

15
John M. Swisher,
The Swisher Memoirs
(San Antonio, 1932): 18-19.

16
Ibid, 18.

17
Ibid.

18
Ibid.

19
Ibid.

20
Davis,
Lone Star Rising,
209-10. Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
22-23.

21
Hardin, “Gallery: David Crockett,” 30-31.

22
Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
161.

23
Ibid, 158.

24
Davis,
Three Roads,
524; see his note on arrival dates, 717-718n. Folmsbee and Catron, “David Crockett in Texas,” 60. Also see Todd Hansen,
The Alamo Reader
(Mechanicsburg, PA, 2003), 504-6.

25
Antonio Menchacha,
Memoirs
(San Antonio, 1937), 22.
San Antonio Daily Express,
February 12, 1905. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
504-5.

26
Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
167.

27
Davis,
Three Roads,
516.

28
Quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
171, from John Sutherland,
The Fall of the Alamo
(San Antonio, 1936) 11-12. Davis cites a shorter version, and Cobia points out some discrepancies, including Lindley, in the Sutherland source.

29
Quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
173. Davis,
Three Roads,
516, 718-719n. Sutherland,
Fall of the Alamo,
11-12. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
140.

30
Quoted in Jeff Long,
Duel of Eagles
(New York, 1990), 132.

31
Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
175.

32
Long,
Duel of Eagles,
132. Menchacha,
Memoirs,
22-23.

33
Ibid, both sources.

34
Quoted in Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
111. James Bowie to Henry Smith, February 2, 1836, in Jenkins, ed.,
Papers of the Texas Revolution,
4: 236-38.

35
Walter Lord,
A Time to Stand
(New York, 1961), 84.

36
Long,
Duel of Eagles,
31.

37
Davis,
Three Roads,
519, 719n. Sutherland,
Fall of the Alamo,
11. Long,
Duel of Eagles,
131.

38
Long,
Duel of Eagles,
126. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
673.

39
Quoted in Long,
Duel of Eagles,
127; John Baugh, letter to Henry Smith, February 13, 1836, in Jenkins,
Papers of the Texas Revolution,
#2076. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
674.

40
William B. Travis, letter to Henry Smith, in Jenkins,
Papers of the Texas Revolution,
#2094. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
22-23.

41
Long,
Duel of Eagles,
127.

42
William B. Travis and James Bowie to Henry Smith, February 14, 1836, in Jenkins,
Papers of the Texas Revolution,
#2094; Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
24-25.

43
Quoted in Lord,
A Time to Stand,
85, 232n. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
25.

44
Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
120.

45
Long,
Duel of Eagles,
149.

46
Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
120.

47
Jose Enrique de la Pena,
With Santa Anna in Texas
(College Station, TX, 1975), 27.

48
Ibid.

49
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
119.