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

[Charles Doyle]

Not that Bush is REALLY a Texan (or if he is, as the Dixie Chicks famously noted, he's a shameful one)--or that he would have been paying attention in his (required) Texas History class . . . .

--Charlie
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>Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:18:45 EST
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>Subject: Re: 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=
>6  - 23k
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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 ...
>www.graceproducts.com/travis/life.html -  11k
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