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A good ending. I can’t wait for the next installment.
Commented Mar 25, 2019 on That Remarkable Sam Houston at Dac Crossley's Western Blog
That Remarkable Sam Houston
Come with me back to Texas in March, 1836. It was a rainy Springtime. I'm sure the Bluebonnets and all were a-bloom. And those early Texians were fleeing from Santa Ana's army. The fall of the Alamo set off a mad scramble that Texans recall as the "Runaway Scrape." Take what you can carry and scu...
Dac,
This was a nice blog. I didn't know many of the things you included in it. How many men did Santa Ana have at San Jacinto? Also, I thought most of them were sleeping or resting in their tents at the time of the attack. Finally, is the Yellow Rose (Emily Morgan) story true or only a fable.
Your cousin, Stephen
Commented May 2, 2017 on The First Days -- The Republic of Texas at Dac Crossley's Western Blog
The First Days -- The Republic of Texas
In the month of May, 1836, Texians who’d fled the Mexican army began returning to their fields, hoping to get a crop planted in the rain-soaked soils. Perhaps they, too, questioned the circumstances that found them returning to their homesteads instead of camping across the Sabine River in Louisi...
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