Daniel Boone sets out for Texas, November 1, 1835
Dressed in his hunting suit and wearing a coonskin cap, he gives his rifle, Old Betsy, to his son John Wesley, and, following the trail blazed by his friend Sam Houston, sets out for Texas with three friends. His opposition to Andrew Jackson has cost him his seat in Congress, and during the campaign, he several times had promised to move to Texas if defeated. He had learned that the Texas provisional government was offering 4, 600 acres of land to anyone promising to fight for Texas’s freedom. His military assignment leads him to the Alamo.