American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett (49 page)

50
Quoted in Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
142.

51
Long,
Duel of Eagles,
156. Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
121.

52
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
121.

53
Quoted in Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
143. Also quoted in Long,
Duel of Eagles,
157.

54
Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
144. Lord,
A Time to Stand,
94. Sutherland,
Fall of the Alamo,
18-19.

55
Long,
Duel of Eagles,
158. Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
122.

56
Long,
Duel of Eagles,
158; Lord,
A Time to Stand,
94.

57
Quoted in Long,
Duel of Eagles,
158. Vincente Filisola,
The History of the War in Texas
(Austin, 1985-1987), vol. 2, 150. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
144.

58
Quoted in Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
144.

59
Quoted in Lord,
A Time to Stand,
97. Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
121.

60
Quoted in Long,
Duel of Eagles,
159, and Hansen,
Alamo Reader
, 31-32. William B. Travis and James Bowie letter to James Fannin, February 23, 1836, in Jenkins,
Papers of the Texas Revolution,
#2161.

61
Quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
193. Sutherland,
Fall of the Alamo,
20.

62
Ibid, both sources.

63
Davis,
Three Roads,
536. Samuel E. Asbury, “The Private Journal of Juan Nepomuceno Almonte,”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
48 (July 1944): 10-32. Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
124.

64
Sutherland, in Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
146-47.

65
Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
127. Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
124.

66
Long,
Duel of Eagles,
162-163. Lord,
A Time to Stand,
102.

67
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
124-25.

68
Quoted in Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
125. Jose Batres to James Bowie, February 23, 1836, in Jenkins,
Papers of the Texas Revolution
4: 44. Lord,
A Time to Stand,
102.

69
Davis,
Three Roads,
537.

70
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
125-26.

71
Davis,
Three Roads,
537. Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
126.

72
William Travis to the People of Texas, February 24, 1836, Army Papers, Record Group 401, Texas State Library and Archives, Austin. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
32.

73
Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
356.

Chapter 16: Smoke from a Funeral Pyre

1
Davis,
Three Roads,
541. Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
196-98.

2
William Travis to Sam Houston, quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
197. Also quoted in Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
34.

3
Long,
Duel of Eagles,
190. Davis,
Three Roads,
542.

4
Quoted in Long,
Duel of Eagles,
191. Lord,
A Time To Stand,
109. Letter from William Travis to Sam Houston. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
34.

5
Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
357.

6
Quoted in Ibid.

7
Ibid, 358. Long,
Duel of Eagles,
200.

8
Joseph Field,
Three Years in Texas
(Boston, 1836), 17. Asbury, “Almonte Journal,” 19. Davis,
Three Roads,
545. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
686.

9
Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
359.

10
Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
133.

11
Ibid, 133-34. Lord,
A Time to Stand,
117; Albert A. Nofi,
The Alamo and the Texas War of Independence
(Conshohocken, PA, 1992), 68-70, 74. Harden,
Texian Illiad,
133-34.

12
Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
134. Asbury, “Almonte Journal,” 19, March 1, 1836.

13
Quoted in Thomas Ricks Lindley, “Drawing Truthful Deductions,”
Journal of the Alamo Battlefield Association
I (September, 1995): 31-33.

14
Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
134.

15
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
148-49. It was actually the arrival of General Antonio Gaona’s First Brigade and Cavalry Regiment.

16
Lord,
A Time To Stand,
137. Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
149. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
683, 716-17.

17
Quoted in Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
601, Robert McAlpin Williamson letter to William B. Travis, March 1, 1836.

18
Quoted in Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
35-36.

19
Quoted in Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
35-36. William Travis to President of the Convention, March 3, 1836,
San Felipe Telegraph
and
Texas Register,
March 12, 1836.

20
Ibid, 36.

21
Ibid, 37-38.

22
Travis to David Ayers, March 3, 1836,
Texas Monument
[La Grange, TX, newspaper], March 31, 1852. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
38.

23
Long,
Duel of Eagles,
209.

24
Davis,
Three Roads,
556.

25
Quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
208. J. M. Morphis,
History of Texas
(New York, 1875), 175. There exists some compelling speculation and evidence that Crockett may have gone outside the Alamo on a mission to gather reinforcements during the siege. See Thomas Ricks Lindley,
Alamo Traces
(Plano, TX, 2003), 140-42. Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
203-13.

26
Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
365.

27
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, “Manifesto,” in
The Mexican Side of the Texas Revolution,
translated by Carlos Castaneda (Dallas, 1928), 13.

28
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Military Order, March 3, 1836,
United States Magazine and Democratic Review
(October, 1838): 143, quoted in Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
336-37.

29
De la Pena,
With Santa Anna in Texas,
43-44. Hansen,
Alamo Reader,
335.

30
Davis,
Three Roads,
556.

31
Ibid, 557. Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
369.

32
Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
138.

33
Ibid. De la Pena,
With Santa Anna in Texas,
46. Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
160.

34
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
159. De la Pena,
With Santa Anna in Texas,
47.

35
De la Pena,
With Santa Anna in Texas,
46-47. Long,
Duel of Eagles,
241. Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
161.

36
De la Pena,
With Santa Anna in Texas,
47.

37
Davis,
Three Roads,
559. Lord,
A Time to Stand,
155; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
162.

38
Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
139.

39
Davis,
Three Roads,
560, 732-33n. Joe, Travis’s slave, quoted in
Alamo Reader,
77-82. Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
139. Bruce Winders,
Sacrified at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution
(Abilene, TX, 2004), 126.

40
Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
146.

41
Lord,
A Time to Stand,
156-57.

42
Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
146. De la Pena,
With Santa Anna in Texas,
48-50.

43
De la Pena,
With Santa Anna in Texas,
48-49.

44
Davis,
Three Roads,
562. Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
147. Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
165-68. Lord,
A Time to Stand,
161.

45
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
168. Davis,
Three Roads,
562.

46
Quoted in Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
147. Pohl and Hardin, “Military History of the Texas Revolution,” 294, 296. Glaser, “Victory and Death,” in Schoelwer with Glaser,
Alamo Images,
85.

47
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
168. Sutherland,
Fall of the Alamo,
40. Davis,
Three Roads,
561, 734n. Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
148. Long,
Duel of Eagles,
253.

48
Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
148. De la Pena,
With Santa Anna in Texas,
53. Filisola,
History of the War in Texas,
2, 179.

49
De la Pena,
With Santa Anna in Texas,
53. The exact nature of Crockett ’s death remains unknown, mired in speculation and multiple supposed firsthand “eyewitness” accounts, and the controversy and debate surrounding his demise at the Alamo, like Crockett’s own legend, will likely never die. Thousands and thousands of pages and a number of books are devoted to that subject alone. The bibliography at the end of this work delineates most of the significant texts and authors who have participated in the ongoing discussion.

50
Davis,
Lone Star Rising,
234-35.

51
Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
389.

52
Ibid, 394-97. Davis,
Lone Star Rising,
237-38.

53
Hardin,
Texian Iliad,
173-74. Davis,
Lone Star Rising,
238. De la Pena,
With Santa Anna in Texas,
88-90.

54
Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
451.

55
Ibid.

56
Quoted in Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
453-54.

57
Lord,
A Time to Stand,
193-96. Davis,
Lone Star Rising,
269-71. Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
450-55.

58
Derr,
Frontiersman,
253.

59
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
235,
Niles Weekly Register,
L, 121-22, April 16, 1836. Lists of slain at Alamo do not include Jesse Benton.

60
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
236.

61
Mary Daggett Lake, “David Crockett’s Widow, the Pioneer Wife and Mother Who Was Widowed by the Fall of the Alamo,”
Texas Monthly
2 (December 1928): 703-8; Shackford,
Man and Legend,
236.

62
Lake, “David Crockett ’s Widow” 706.