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A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo
There are several authentic pictures of David Crockett in ex-
istence, for Crockett enjoyed having his portrait painted and his
eccentric personality, as well as his popularity, induced his friends
and politicians to have his portrait painted a number of times,
always without cost to the clever David. Two of these portraits
were painted by the celebrated Benjamin West, while there are
others by less famous artists.10
[A bibliography for the main part of this sketch is as follows:
David Crockett, Autobiography, edited by W. H. Graham;
David Crockett, Autobiography, edited by G. G. Evans;
David Crockett, Autobiography, edited by J. Limbird;
David Crockett, Autobiography, edited by Everett McNeill;
James J. Roche, David Crockett;
John S. C. Abbott, David Crockett;
W. F. Cody, David Crockett;
E. S. Ellis, David Crockett;
William C. Sprague, David Crockett;
Marcus J. Wright, David Crockett;
Emerson Hough, The Way to the West;
The Arkansas Advocate, April 4, 1836; also, March 13, 1835;
Augusta (Georgia) Sentinel, May 24, 1836.1
Antonio L6pez de Santa Anna
Antonio L6pez de Santa Anna was born at Jalapa, Vera Cruz,
February 21, 1792. Has father was a Spaniard of old Spain,
respectable though poor; his mother was a Mexican woman of
mixed blood. He received an education of the barest rudiments,
for his father planned for him to be a merchant and deemed it
unnecessary to waste time and money on books. But the boy's
inclination toward the military was so strong that at the age of
fourteen or fifteen he was taken into the military family of Gen-
eral Davila, the Intendent of Vera Cruz, and for the next five
or six years he served with the king's troops in Texas and
on his way to Texas, Crockett found himself short of funds and traded
his gold watch, given to him by the people of Baltimore, for one of
silver and money. After his death the gold watch was presented to his
widow. The children alluded to in the letter quoted above are his first
wife's children. None of them came to Texas.
"The picture presented in the thesis from which these chapters are
taken is a copy of the portrait of Crockett, painted by B. West while
Crockett was on his visit to New York in 1834. A beautiful copy of
this portrait is to be found in McArdle's Alamo Book, Texas State
Library. An oil copy of another portrait of Crockett, done by Benjamin
West, hangs in the Alamo.
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