https://www.jstor.org/stable/30238918
In “Sam Houston’s Speechwriters”, Crisp describes four different versions of Sam Houston’s speech: the actual speech Houston gave, the speech as described in Ehrenberg’s German-language memoir, Bartholomae’s unpublished translation of that memoir into English, and Churchill’s With Milam and Fanin (the published version for children). What does Crisp think of the Ehrenberg, Bartholomae, and Churchill versions as sources for the speech’s content? Are they reliable or not? Why, and what makes them that way? Finally, Houston’s speech has been used as evidence to assert that Houston was an anti-Mexican or anti-Tejano racist. Does Crisp agree with that, and what evidence does he use to come to his conclusion?
