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7 Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Gammel Book Company, 1900), online edition, Southwestern Classics On-Line/Lone Star Junction, 1997, www.oldcardboard.com/lsj/olbooks/smithwic/otd.htm. Noah Smithwick was born in Martin County, North Carolina, on January 1, 1808. Smithwick moved with his family to Tennessee in 1814 and then drifted with the tide of emigration to Texas in 1827. He was a keen observer of many events during the evolution of Texas, and his lurid anecdotes were first published in book form in 1900. Texas historian J. Frank Dobie considered Smithwick’s work the “best of all books dealing with life in early Texas.” The Noah Smithwick Papers, 1835–1922, are located at The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 T. R. Fehrenbach, Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans (New York: Collier Books, 1980), 152.
12 Terry Corps, Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006), 306–7.
13 Eugene C. Baker, “Stephen F. Austin and the Independence of Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online 13, no. 4 (1933): 271, http://www.tshaonline.org/. Mary Phelps Austin Holley, born in Connecticut in 1784, was a first cousin to Stephen F. Austin. Her brother, Henry Austin, and his family had gone to Texas to join the Austin Colony, and Mary was a frequent visitor. Both her father and her husband, Horace Holley, a Unitarian minister, died of yellow fever, as did Mary, in 1846.
14 Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier, 41.
15 David J. Weber, ed., Foreigners in Their Native Land: Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1973), 152.
16 The University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, MS 1225, David Crockett letter “To the Editors” [Gales & Seaton], Weakley County, TN, August 10, 1835.
17 Hauck, Davy Crockett: A Handbook, 47.
18 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 212.
19 The Gazettte, Little Rock, AR, November 17, 1835.
20 Time magazine, “Just Around the Backbone of North America,” October 7, 1957, www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809942,00.html.
21 Richmond Enquirer 32, no. 63, December 10, 1935.
22 Jones, In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett, 194–95. Jonesboro was established by ferryman Henry Jones in 1815 and became a major hub as both the farthest navigable point upstream on the Red River and a terminus for Trammel’s Trace.
23 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 213–14.
24 Pat B. Clark, The History of Clarksville and Old Red River County (Dallas: Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1937), 14–15.
25 Ibid., xiv.
26 Ibid., 12.
27 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 216.
28 New-Bedford Mercury 29, no. 34, February 26, 1836.
29 Jones, In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett, 199.
30 Levy, American Legend, 245.
31 Davis, Three Roads to the Alamo, 409.
32 Hutton, Introduction, Narrative, xxv.
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1 Arkansas Gazette, May 10, 1836. This account of the Nacogdoches banquet speech was published more than two months after the fall of the Alamo. Various versions of the speech also appeared in several other newspapers of the day.
2 Jones, In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett, 204, quoting Niles’ Weekly Register, April 9, 1836.
3 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 218–19.
4 Ibid., 216.
5 Ibid., 217–18. John Forbes, The Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tshaonline.org/. Forbes was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1797 and immigrated to the United States in 1817. He settled in Cincinnati, OH, and in 1834 moved with his family to Nacogdoches, where he became chairman of the Committee of Vigilance and Public Safety. He was elected first judge of Nacogdoches Municipality on November 26, 1835, and administered the oath of allegiance to many army recruits, including Crockett, as they passed through Nacogdoches. He went on to become aide-de-camp