Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 26: Line in the Sand

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The Texas-averse YBQ should have pointed out that this is a famous Texan
saying that President Bush surely borrowed from the Alamo.
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_LOUISiana Digital Library : Item Viewer_
(http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/OMSA&CISOPTR=28&REC=6)      Description, Inside
battered walls of the  Alamo, civilians watch while Travis, in military
uniform,  draws a line in the dirt with his sword. ...
louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/item_louisdl.louislibraries.or&CISOPTR=28&REC=
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_Amazon.com: A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood  and Memory ..._
(http://www.amazon.com/Line-Sand-Alamo-Blood-Memory/dp/0743212339)      Amazon.com: A
Line in the Sand: The  Alamo in Blood and Memory: Books: Randy ... As
distilled  vessels of virtue, Travis, Crockett, and the others were  ...
www.amazon.com/Line-Sand-Alamo-Blood-Memory/dp/0743212339  - 144k -
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_"In  Search of the Heroes": The Cost of Freedom--William Barret  Travis_
(http://www.graceproducts.com/travis/line.html)
Mrs. Dickinson, one of the survivors of the  Alamo, reported that Travis gave
everyone an opportunity to  leave (possibly the line in the sand incident),
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www.graceproducts.com/travis/line.html -  6k
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_"In Search of the Heroes": The Cost of Freedom--William  Barret Travis_
(http://www.graceproducts.com/travis/life.html)      March 5, 1836--Legend has it
that  Travis drew a line in the sand and gave ...  March 6, 1836--The battle
of the Alamo. Travis died  during the early part of ...
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