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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.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- CROCKETT, DAVID
- ALAMO, BATTLE OF THE
- TEXAS REVOLUTION
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- Texas Academy of Science organized (1892)
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