In the canon
On to the Alamo
Richard Penn Smith
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1836
- Pages
- Pages 200
The last entry is not a sentence but a noise: pops and booms set down just as a man hears them from inside a wall he already knows he will not leave, and then the hand stops. For nearly two centuries readers have taken that page as David Crockett's own, carried off the field at the Alamo and printed in his voice, complete with the bear stories, the tall talk and Thimblerig the card sharp cheating his way south beside him.
It is a true saying that no one knows the luck of a lousy calf
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