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<div class="hnews hentry item">[[File:f0.png]] '''<span class="url entry-title">[https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/independents-day-2011-2/ Independents Day 2011]</span>''' <span class="updated">February 20, 2011</span>, <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Marty Rathbun</span>, <span class="org organization-name">Moving On Up a Little Higher</span></span>
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<span class="entry-content">What do Sam [[:Category:Houston|Houston]] and Davy Crockett have to do with [[:Category:Independent|Independent]]s Day [[:Category:2011|2011]]?

I happened to research these fellows during my history study days in 05-06; when we lived in Houston, [[:Category:Texas|Texas]]. That included accepted histories and alternate histories – including verbal histories, Black histories, Mexican histories and Native American histories.

Crockett and Houston were US [[:Category:Congress|Congress]]men representing the state of [[:Category:Tennessee|Tennessee]]. (Houston later became Governor). Both left Tennessee for Texas when the reaction to their counter-cultural ideas got too thick. Both defied President [[:Category:Andrew Jackson|Andrew Jackson]]'s policy to renege on treaties with Native Americans.</span><br/>
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