Rabu, 23 November 2016

Letter From Wild West – February 2017

In Thom Ross' work "Davy at the Doorway" Crockett meets Mexican soldiers head-on at the March 6, 1836, Battle of the Alamo. But what of his fellow Tennesseans?The other Tennessee Mounted Volunteers all died with David Crockett at the Alamo, but would they have begrudged him his fame?

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