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Thread #8926 Message #2585166
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
09-Mar-09 - 07:41 PM
Thread Name: Origins/ADD: Songs about the Texas Rangers
Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Songs about the Texas Rangers
Presumably the Wallace song was written by Roger 'Strap' Kennedy. There are some inaccuracies. Wallace moved to Austin in 1840, but 1839 rhymes with malign, etc.
About 200 Mier prisoners were incarcerated at Perote. They joined those few not yet released in 1842 of the 300 or so captured in the extremely stupid "Santa Fe" expedition.
Wallace told a lot of tall tales; the bean story may have been one of them.
See articles on Wallace and Perote Prison in the Handbook of Texas online. Handbook of Texas