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"Remember the Alamo" is a song written by Texan folk singer and songwriter Jane Bowers. [1] Bowers details the last days of 180 soldiers during the Battle of the Alamo and names several famous figures who fought at the Alamo, including Mexican general Santa Anna and Texans: Jim Bowie, William Barrett Travis and Davy Crockett.
"The Ballad of John and Yoko" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in May 1969. It was written by John Lennon [ 3 ] and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership, and chronicles the events surrounding the wedding of Lennon and Yoko Ono .
"On the Trail of the Buffalo" (Roud 634), also known as "The Buffalo Skinners" or "The Hills of Mexico", is a traditional American folk song in the western music genre. It tells the story of an 1873 buffalo hunt on the southern plains. [ 1 ]
She and John Chisum are honored by statues to their memory in the towns of Artesia and Roswell, New Mexico. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 1958, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum , in Oklahoma City , state capital of Oklahoma [ 9 ] John Chisum fathered 2 daughters with his former freed slave ...
In Lincoln County, New Mexico, John Chisum, a kindly and successful cattle baron, finds his peace threatened when amoral Lawrence Murphy and his business partner James Dolan forcibly buy up most of the land and businesses in the area. Initially, Chisum tries to not get involved, though he does allow ranchers forced out by Murphy to water their ...
The first full-length, non-fiction book covering the battle was not published until 1948, when John Myers Myers' The Alamo was released. [34] Since then, a litany of books have followed, most notably Walter Lord 's seminal work in 1961, A Time to Stand .
Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes misspelled Murieta or Murietta) (c. 1829 – July 25, 1853), also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican figure of disputed historicity.
The novel was adapted into a 1981 television film of the same name, which was directed by Donald Wrye and written by John Sacret Young. The film received a Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award nomination in 1982. Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs wrote a song called "The Ballad of John Vogelin" from her 2003 studio album Troubled by the Fire.