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Post by Kevin Young on May 8, 2011 19:09:11 GMT -5
I like that!
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Post by mjbrathwaite on May 8, 2011 19:35:59 GMT -5
That's a good perspective on it. I presume they've got Osama's death on video, but we still don't know exactly what happened!
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Post by stuart on May 9, 2011 0:44:38 GMT -5
It really comes back to that old quotation from Shakespeare which I can never remember about ordinary people dying unnoticed while the skies are ablaze with comets and other potents when princes shuffle off.
If Crockett really was just plain old Mr Crockett the hardscrabble farmer from Tennessee my money might be on him dying anonymously with so many others on the north wall or out in the brangel, or even in a dark corner yelling "Me no Americano!", but as he was the Davy Crockett of legend he needs to have died in legendary fashion.
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Post by Don Allen on May 13, 2011 14:24:07 GMT -5
I have always assumed that Crockett would've taken part in settling and dealing in land.
I just re-read a book my grandmother's sister wrote about their clan, the Wills. This family came from Tennessee as well, looking for land, and other opportunity, settled the town of Wills Point and did fairly well for themselves (they also produced the famous Bob Wills of country music fame).
Anyway....the point is that land dealing, settling and speculation was at least a part of why almost everyone came to the state at that time. Any attempts to equate this to the questionable sorts of things that Bowie was involved in earlier are generalizations.
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