Texas buys letter containing Crockett s last written words
LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON
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Associated Press Writer
Just two months before he perished while defending the Alamo, Davy Crockett gave his daughter and son-in-law a peek at the land he treasured enough to die for its independence. I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world, the famed frontiersman and former congressman from Tennessee wrote. The best land and the best prospect for health he had ever seen.
The Texas Historical Commission announced Tuesday it has purchased the letter, the last one Crockett penned before he and about 200 other Alamo defenders were killed by Mexican forces led by Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.