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I'm not certain that it would avoid war. Given different premises for a Texian revolution, we may well get different outcomes -- but this is obviously difficult to forecast. My reasoning is that Crockett would make it clear that he would not back US intervention right from the start. There's a...

Yup. That's about the shape of it. If he's elected later on a "the Alamo holds out" scenario, he'll be able to be a bit more efficient, but the fact is that most of the things on which he really differed from Jackson have become fait accompli by then. Nevertheless, these are the obvious...

Crockett's frontier populism always took the shape of anti-government rhetoric. In his view, the way to be a man of the people was to stop the government from hurting the people. Note that his opposition to Jackson's handling of the bank had nothing to do wth wanting to defend the bank. Rather...