Davey Crockett gave up his political career to do what was right

how many like him do we have in office today? Not too many I suggest. There seems to be an underlying theme of destroying things/people/places in order to save them. I wish this weren't true but apparently it is. Gawd how I detest self righteous indignation.

"I would sooner be honestly damned than hypocritically immortalized"
Davy Crockett
His political career destroyed because he supported the Cherokee, he left Washington D. C. and headed west to Texas.

http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html

In his book Don't Know Much About History, Kenneth C. Davis writes:

Hollywood has left the impression that the great Indian wars came in the Old West during the late 1800's, a period that many think of simplistically as the "cowboy and Indian" days. But in fact that was a "mopping up" effort. By that time the Indians were nearly finished, their subjugation complete, their numbers decimated. The killing, enslavement, and land theft had begun with the arrival of the Europeans. But it may have reached its nadir when it became federal policy under President (Andrew) Jackson.
The Cherokees in 1828 were not nomadic savages. In fact, they had assimilated many European-style customs, including the wearing of gowns by Cherokee women. They built roads, schools and churches, had a system of representational government, and were farmers and cattle ranchers. A Cherokee alphabet, the "Talking Leaves" was perfected by Sequoyah.

That's the story I heard.

pro-slavery Southerners hoping to expand slavery to the western territories.

about the hyped-up legend until I was an adult. They certainly don't teach the truth (or much of anything anymore, really) in Texas. Just the legend.

The deal was: give up slaves, learn Spanish and convert to Catholicism.

Both William Travis and Jim Bowie were slave owners, and both had slaves at the Alamo; Travis definitely, Bowie not so certainly.

How to piss off a Texan, part one...

The Xtians stole this country unfair and unsquare and god didn't stop them, so it must have been all right with him.

power!!!!! unfair and unsquare... sad that some running from persecution could persecute so well. I guess a phrase could have been "No axe nation without eradication".

after he was defeated in the 1834 Congressional election?

Sid

may have made him less than popular with the gang he hung around with.

Crockett grew up in East Tennessee, where he gained a reputation for hunting and storytelling. After being elected to the rank of colonel in the militia of Lawrence County, Tennessee, he was elected to the Tennessee state legislature in 1821. In 1826, Crockett was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Crockett vehemently opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, most notably the Indian Removal Act. Crockett's opposition to Jackson's policies led to his defeat in the 1834 elections, prompting his angry departure to Texas shortly thereafter. In early 1836, Crockett took part in the Texas Revolution and was killed at the Battle of the Alamo in March.

them seems to be a recurring theme of western civilization.

Among the charming customs the Cherokees had assimilated, in addition to representative government and gowns for the ladies, was slavery.

History is complicated.

David Crockett did leave his former constituents with a very eloquent farewell message, to be sure. "I'm going to Texas and you all cn go to Hell."