This cover illustration is from one of a series of popular almanacs featuring David Crockett, which continued to promote the frontier exploits of the adventurer well after his death at the Alamo. In it Crockett accounts for his going to Texas as follows: "At the last canvass for a Member of Congress, in our district, I told my constituents, if they did not re-elect me, they might go to hell and I'd go to Texas. I was beaten . . . And I am now about to cut out to that country to help give the Mexicans a licking." Page from Davy Crockett's 1837 Almanack, of Wild Sports in the West, Life in the Backwoods, & Sketches of Texas.
