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The Center of Camp => People of the Times => Topic started by: Craig Tx on January 09, 2012, 08:34:24 AM
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From the Texas State Historical Association
Frontier icon Crockett loses election, heads for Alamo
On this day in 1836, after losing his bid for a fourth term as a Tennessee representative to the U. S. Congress, Davy Crockett wrote a letter stating his intention to go to Texas. This, his last extant letter, praises Texas as "the garden spot of the world," with the "best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw."
With high optimism for his political future, he wrote that he fully expected to take part in writing a constitution for Texas. "I am in hopes," he wrote, "of making a fortune yet for my self and my family, bad as my prospect has been." Crockett could not foresee his fate at the battle of the Alamo, which occurred just two months later.
Craig
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Craig,
And to this day he is remembered as a hero of TX and the Alamo more
than a a three term congressman from Tennessee.
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Grew up watching Fess Parker as Davy Crockett! Kids even had coon skin hair cuts back then. He is def one of the reasons I am a buckskinner. (the real Davy Crockett and Fess). Thanks Craig for posting.