The Texas revolution is a important historical event with its heroes such as Davy Crockett, Stephen F. Austin , Jim Bowie and Sam Houston. In the book Sleuthing The Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other mysterious of The Texas Revolution the author is faced with tracking the truth behind Sam Houston's speech. It all started when he was young with his exposure to the Texas revolution according to James Crisp in page 1 “The iconic heroes of the Texas Revolution were all around me, in the names of our streets schools, our cuties and Counties Houston, Austin, Fannin, Travis, Bowie, Crockett”. This influence was even carried to his back yard during the “Davy Crockett craze” when he would reenact the battle and pretend to kill Mexicans as David Crockett. The author grew up being exposed to the Texas revolution but not all the exposure was true to what happen. Davy Crockett didn't really go guns blazing taking out many Mexicans and still live to tell the tale as the Disney epic on television showed it to be.
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As he was reading it he noticed the speech was out of Sam Houston’s character. In his speech Sam Houston would insult the Mexicans by calling them “half-Indians”. James Crisp was thrown off by this due to the fact of his “childhood image of Sam Houston the adopted Cherokee”(page 39). James Crisp says in page 39 “The speech contradicted much of what I thought that I learned in more than two decades of investigating the causes and consequences of the Texas Revolution”. The author was aware that during the mid-nineteenth century people viewed the Texas Revolution as a racial conflict. It was argued that “Mexicans were inherently incapable of self-government” therefore the people of Texas didn't have a choice but to rise up and rebel for their
As he was reading it he noticed the speech was out of Sam Houston’s character. In his speech Sam Houston would insult the Mexicans by calling them “half-Indians”. James Crisp was thrown off by this due to the fact of his “childhood image of Sam Houston the adopted Cherokee”(page 39). James Crisp says in page 39 “The speech contradicted much of what I thought that I learned in more than two decades of investigating the causes and consequences of the Texas Revolution”. The author was aware that during the mid-nineteenth century people viewed the Texas Revolution as a racial conflict. It was argued that “Mexicans were inherently incapable of self-government” therefore the people of Texas didn't have a choice but to rise up and rebel for their