Trapped in his legend

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For the poor unfortunates who have never lived in Texas I should tell you that in 1836 a small band (185 the song says) of American Immigrants and Mexican Natives placed themselves into an ancient mission called the Alamo and proclaimed themselves to be defenders of the Mexican Constitution of 1824 which had been overthrown by the dictator General Santa Anna.  They ended up (perhaps willy-nilly or perhaps with a line drawn in the sand) with no options except to defend it to the death against several thousand Mexicans in Santa Anna's army.  Which they did.   Among them was a legendary Tennessee frontiersman, member of Andrew Jackson's campaign against the Creek Indians, and former congressman, one Davy Crockett.

In the most recent movie retelling of this story there is a very poignant scene, before they are completely sealed into the Alamo, in which Davy Crockett contemplates his options and says: "If it was just me, simple old David from Tennessee, I might drop over that wall some night, take my chances. But that Davy Crockett feller... they're all watchin' him.
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Broken trail

In the movie Broken Trail, Robert Duvall’s
Prentice Ritter (cowboy) says a few words at a funeral:
“We're all travelers in this world.
From the sweet grass to the packing house.
Birth 'til death.
We travel between the eternities.”

San Jacinto Day

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This is the 175th anniversary of the battle of San Jacinto which was won by the "Texicans" and which established Texas independence from Mexico.
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a Texas story

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In the main foyer in Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas there is a statue of a Texas Ranger. The Rangers served as a sort of cross between an army and the state police. There was an inscription at the base of the statue that comes from the following apocryphal story.

It seems that there was a riot in Odessa or someplace. It was in the telegraph days and they sent a wire for the Texas Rangers to come.
The wire came back and it said, "On the way. Meet the 6 oclock train."
The Mayor, Sheriff, and Police Chief met the train and when they saw their first ranger the following conversation ensued.
Ranger: "Howdy."
Mayor:"How many of you are there?"
Ranger: "Just me."
Sheriff: "They only sent one ranger?"
Ranger: "You only got one riot, don't you?"

The inscription on the statue said: "One riot, one ranger."
I think that it is still there. It is probably just as well that it did not get moved over to DFW.
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