Word: crocketts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Root-Hog or Die. Southwest Historian J. Frank Dobie (Coronado's Children, The Voice of the Coyote) picked up Ben Lilly's trail back in 1928, when he met the 20th Century Davy Crockett in El Paso, read two chapters of his never-completed autobiography and listened to such Thoreau-like observations as "Property is a handicap to man." After Ben died in 1936. at 79, Dobie started back-trailing on his life in an effort to flush the truth out of the thicket of legend which had grown up around his name. The result is a briery...
...declaration protested specifically the recent contempt of court convictions of George W. Crockett, Jr., Richard Gladstein, Abraham J. Isserman, Louis McCabe, and Harry Sacher, all defense lawyers at the recent Communist conspiracy trial...