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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
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to his turbulent career; close
upon his mocecasined heels as
he flashes across the page of
history come pressing a whole
line of “Wild West" heroes
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whose renown might easily have eclipsed his;
yet, In this year 1034 the name and fame of
Davy Crockett still “goes ahead."
Down in Texas they are getting ready to cele-
brate, two years hence, the centennial of Texan
independence from Mexico and during that cele
bration the dominant figure in memory will be,
of course, Sam Houston, the George Washington
of the Revolution of 1838 and the first president
of the Lone Star republic. But there will also be
occasion to “Remember the Alamo!” and to re
call again the names of its herole
Bowie and Bonham and Travis and,
Davy Crockett.
For in the minds of most Davy
Crockett is the apotheosis of the Alamo and he
defenders—
most of all,
Americans
is second only to Sam Houston as the most mem-
orable figure In the fight by Texas for freedom
from Mexico. Why?
Perhaps the best explanation ean be found In
the bogk “Davy Crockett” by Constance Rourke,
p shed recently by Harcourt, Brace and com-
pany. In the foreword to this volume, the auth-
Or Says:
“When a country is young it discovers its
heroes, and these are not always leaders in bat.
tle. They may only be men who have had the
adventures others long for. They may show ad.
mired traits, or strange ones. They may talk or
laugh in a fashlon which others enjoy. Always
stories are told about them,
“Davy Crockett knew wild life as few have
known it, and he became the most noted hunter
of his time. Even when he was an obscure back.
woodsman comical tales and high talk could be
heard about him, and his own humor had fame
among the people of his region. When he
emerged from the wilderness and appeared In
the East as congressman, he suddenly seemed
to the popular imagination all that had been
known or guessed about life In the western
woods or on the western waters. There was
truth in this; even In the most soaring of the
many tall tales about Crockett there was truth.
“About no single American figure have so
many legends clustered. After Crockett’'s death
whole eycies of legendary tales were told about
him that form a rich outflowering of the
American imagination, n
In those words is a definite clue to the reason
why the figure of Davy Crockett is still green
in the memory of his fellow-Americans though a
hundred years have passed since he stopped
living and laughing his way Into the hearts of a
people. The fact that he “had adventures others
long for” is not enough to guarantee his immor-
tality. Daniel Boone had those adventures. He
also could “show admired tralts” And these,
taken together, were enough to make him the
outstanding symbol of ploneer life, of the Amer
fean frontier. But Davy Crockett had something
also which Boone had not—that gift of humor
which gave him “fame among the people of his
region"—a fame that soon spread to other re
gions as well. He was both a teller of "tall
tales” and an actor in them. So the legends
began to cluster about his name, for frontier
America loved its “whoppers” And, for that
matter, becanse this so-called “modern” America
is still so near to the frontier phase of its na-
tional life, It still loves them.
Perhaps another reason why this fact-and-
fiction hero, Davy Crockett, ig still such a vivid
figure in our national consclousness is because
of two words which we associate with him: “Go
ahead!” We Americans love mottces, slogans,
catchwords and all such things. Almost all of
our popular heroes have tagged to them some
phrase that has become historic. Repeat the
words of that phrase and Instantly the figure of
the man who uttered them rises in the mind of
the hearer,
So Davy Crockett, unconsciously perhaps, was
guaranteeing his immortality when he adopted
as his motto “Be always sure you are right, then
go ahead.” It was a particularly apt motto for
his time. In Crockett's day America, and partie
ularly the ' American frontlersman, was “going
ahead.” He had but recently surged over the
barrier of the Alleghanies. He was engaged in
the conquest of the great interior basin of North
America, the Mississippl valley, He was already
gazing longingly across the Father of Waters to-
ward the western plains and another huge bar
rier, the Rockies. Lewls and Clark had proved
that that barrier could be sealed, go nothing less
And he was sure of his rightness in doing all
this, The mere fact that the original Inhabitants
of all this country, the Indian, opposed him
wasn't enough to change that bellef. From that
period of our history dates our “Indian policy”
of taking the red man's land by any mcans, fair
treaties made only to be broken and of “Indian
— on ——
Notes on the pictures: Photograph of the
Alamo and portrait of Crockett, courtesy Howard
C. Smith, San Antonio, Texas. “Davy Brings
Home a Turkey” and “Davy in School,” draw.
ings by Capt. John W, Thomason, Jr, U. 8. M. C,,
in “The Adventures of Davy Crockett,” courtesy
Charles Scribrier’s Sons, “Remember the Alamo!”
drawing by James MacDonald In “Davy Crock.
ett,” courtesy Harcourt, Brace and Company;
“Colonel Crockett Beat at a Shooting Match”
an old wood-cut reproduced In Blair and Meine's
“Mike Fink: King of Mississippi Keelboatmen,”
courtesy Henry Holt and Company.
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wars” which seem always to have "broken out”
just after the white man had discovered another
bit of particularly desirable country.
If Davy's motto was an apt one for his times,
it seems to be equally so for the America of to.
day, even though we may have lost sight of Its
true meaning. For a belief, amounting almost to
a certalnty, in the rightness of our country in all
things seems to be an essential part of the
American credo, We like to think that we are
the greatest nation on earth, that we have “gone
ahead” of every other nation. We have trans.
lated Davy’'s “go ahead” Into “get ahead” and
that we have done—sometimes as ruthlessly as
did the frontlersmen of his time. But whether
we have interpreted his motto wrongly or right.
iy, the fact that he gave it to us and that we as-
soclate the admonition In it with his name Is
perhaps another reason why he Is so well re.
membered.
When did Crockett first use this motto? Miss
Rourke In her book dates it from shortly after
the close of the War of 1812. Crockett, home
from service under Jackson against the Creeks,
had settled on new land near Shoal creek In
western Tennessee, It was wild country with
dangerous characters, both red and white, roam.
ing through it. A regiment of militia was organ-
fzed by the settlers and Crockeit was elected
colonel, A little later they decided to set up a
form of loeal government and urged Davy to ac
cept the position of magistrate. Says Miss
Rourke:
“Finding that he would be obliged not only to
write his name but to make out warrants and
keep a record of his proceedings, Crockett began
to read whatever he could find and to practice
the art of handwriting, This was slow work, but
he made progress, It was at this time that he
began to inscribe a motto at the end of docu-
ments, ‘Be always sure you're right, then go
ahead.”
Having proved his ability as a local magls
trate, Crockett was next prevailed npon to be
come a candidate for the Tennessee state legis.
lature. He was elected, Next they sent him to
congress. And it is In regard to his career there
that this new blography brings out a part of the
significance of Davy Crockett in American his
tory that other biographers seem to have missed,
Commenting on his role as the champion of the
settlers as against the speculators, In what was
then the West, Miss Rourke says:
“Crockett achieved a homely statesmanship,
fis bill dealing with this question was carefully
thought out and well phrased, and he supported
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of his time, even above many in high
fundamental principle
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and his will
lost, but it was a great
Thus it may be seen that Davy Crockett was
gomething more than a
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cause”
shaping the beginnings of our democracy.
parently were aniso blind to his true worth,
nied him reelection In 1531,
more than before he became an outstanding fig-
ure in congress,
anti-Jackson man and an’ Increasingly danger
Presidency to Martin Van Buren when
Hickory™ should retire from the White House.
then through Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky.
President.
Then came the anti-climax,
his enemies were busy, The full strength of the
Jacksonian partisans in Tennessee was
feated by a narrow margin,
hunting and farming. . . .
decision. I'm going to Texas' he said.”
It was his last journey. The end of it 1s one
of the classics In American heroism, In the eple
drama of the Alamo, as elsewhere back along the
trall of his life, Davy Crockett held the center
of the stage. “In the wild confusion Crockett
seems to have been everywhere at once,” writes
Miss Rourke. "A story was told afterward that
as he leveled and fired his famous ‘Betsey’ he
sang Invitingly to the Mexicans: ‘Won't you
come into my bower? This would have been
like him; perhaps he was heard singing this
gong in the earlier days of the siege. But when
the final attack began there would. have been
no time for song, nor could any tune have Leen
heard in the terrific din”
The Mexicans could kill Davy Crockett, the
man, but they couldn't kill Davy Crockett, the
hero, half man and half myth. “Stories about
Crockett are still told In Kentucky and Ten.
nessee and in the Ozark mountains” says Miss
Rourke. “Even now people In the Ozarks talk
about him as though he were still living just
over the next ridge.”
The other day a newspaper book reviewer be
gan an article thus: “Twice In two weeks Davy
Crockett crashes through, once In his own story,
once In this brilliant blography by Constance
Rourke.” The reference to “his own story” Is te
the fact that Charles Scribner's Sons had lssued
“The Adventures of Davy Crockett: Told Mostly
by Himself,” which Includes Davy's Autoblog.
raphy,” first published In 1834, and his “Texas
Exploits and Adventures,” first published In 1886,
in It Davy Crockett speaks from his unmarked
grave In the “Thermopylae of America” Out
from between the covers of these two books
steps the typleal American frontlersman. Davy
Crockett still “goes ahead”
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She was amused to find on one
paper this answer to the question:
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