Davy Crockett spent Christmas Day 1835 at Nacogdoches waiting for Ben McCulloch, but when the younger Tennessean was a noshow, his hero went on without him to San Antonio.
The pressing family problems that delayed Mc-Culloch’s departure for Texas spared his life. Had the 25-year-old frontiersman kept his date with the famous ex-congressman, a close friend as well as a role model, he too would have …
