1 TWW/ William Walker: Grey-Eyed Maniac of Destiny, Notes 1 "It is the fate...": Frank Soule, John H. Ghion, and Isaac Nisbet, The Annals of Old San Francisco, etc. (NewYork: Appleton, 1855), quoted in Laurence Greene, The Filibuster: The Career of William Walker (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1937), pp. 26-27. 1 "INVASION...": Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's.Dictionary, compo and ed. Ernest J. Hopkins (New York: Doubleday, 1967), page 165. 1-.2 Walker's 1957 Nashville appearance: "General Walker at Home: Address to the Citizens of Nashville," New York Herald, July 14, 18S7. 2 William "Rip" Robertson: Thomas Powers, The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979; rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1981), page 419. 2 John J. Hooker: Haynes Johnson, et al., The Bay of Pigs: The Leaders' Story of Brigade 2506 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1964), pp. 244-45 2-3 Oliver North: Mike Pigott, "North due in city for fund-raiser," Nashville Banner, August 17, 1988; "North to give speech at fund-raiser here Aug. 26," The Tennessean, August 19, 1988; "North visiting city Friday to raise legal defense funds," Nashville Banner, August 25, 1988; Beth Fortune, "Dukakis threat to freedom: North," Ibid., August 27, 1988. 3 "I love God and country...": Cynthia Floyd, "Protestors decry North role in scandal," The Tennessean, August 27, 1988. 3 Judith Thurman: Judith Thurman, "A Reporter At Large: Season," New Yorker, Vol. LXIV, No.4 (March 14, 1988): 44-46, 49-50, 52, 54-57, 60-78. 3 "The Capital of Manifest Destiny": Jesse C. Burt, "Capital of Manifest Destiny," in his Nashville, Its Life and Times (Nashville: Tennessee Book Co., 1959), pp. 41-45. 3 "It had kept its gates...": John Egerton, Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries 1780- 1980 (Nashville: Century Nashville [Plusmedia], 1980), page 107. 3 "when Walker was growing up...": Noel B. Gerson, Sad Swashbuckler: The Life of William Walker (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1976), page 12. 3-4 James Walker: Alejandro Bolanos-Geyer, William Walker: The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny, Vol. 1, The Crescent City (Lake Saint Louis, Mo.: privately printed, 1988), page 15. 4 Nashville Insurance Company: Charles A. Marlin, "William Walker, The Gray-Eyed 2 Man of Destiny," The Nashville Tennessean, November 6, 1925. 4 Howard William Walker: Mrs. Joseph L. Weakley, Jr. ("Kate Thompson"), "Boyhood for Howard William Walker: 'The Grey Eyed Man of Destiny' ," unpublished manuscript, The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville. 4 Walker and his mother: Miss Jane H. Thomas, Old Days in Nashville [plus historical sketch of Nashville as of 1854 by J. G. M. Ramsey, M.D. added in 1969] (1897; rpt. Nashville: Charles Elder, 1969), pp. 78-79. 4-5 "Then comes Sir Walter Scott...": Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (New York: The Heritage Press,1944), pp. 271-72. 5 Davidson Academy: Alfred Leland Crabb, "Davidson Academy 1785-1806," in Peabody and Alfred Leland Crabb, ed. John E. Windrow (Nashville: Williams Press, 1977), pp. 27-29. 5 Agatherdian Society: H. Royston Lawson, "William Walker: His Early Life," manuscript (Sketches-Bio-II-H-1, Box 1, f. 35) Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville. 5 Harney, Gen. William: L. U. Reavis, The Life and Military Services of Gen. William Selby Harney (Saint Louis: Bryan, Brand & Co., 1878), page 43. 5 Cumberland College: Alfred Leland Crabb, "Cumberland College 1806-1826," Peabody, etc., op. cit., pp. 30-31. 5 Andrew Jackson Donelson: Hugo Ellis, "Donelson, Andrew Jackson," in The Handbook of Texas, ed. Walter Prescott Webb, et al., Vol. I (Austin: The Texas State Historical Assoc., 1952), pp. 512-13. 5-6 The Univ. of Nashville students: Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of the University of Nashville (Nashville: A. Nelson, 1850). 6 Benjamin Butler Harris: Benjamin Butler Harris, The Gila Trail: The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush, ed. Richard J. Dillon (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1960), page 6. 6 Peter Pitchlynn: W. David Baird, Peter Pitchlynn: Chief of the Choctaws (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1972; rpt. 1986), pp. 29-30. 6 Edward Dickson Hicks II: Alfred Leland Crabb, op. cit. "The University of Nashville 1826- 1875, op. cit., pp. 32-40. 3 6 William Hardeman: Nicholas Perkins Hardeman, Wilderness Calling: The Hardeman Family in the American Westward Movement, 1750-1900 (Knoxville: The Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1977), page 134. 6 dissertation on the iris: Albert Z. Carr, The World and William Walker (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), page 10. 6 Dr. Jennings: Alenjandro Bolanos-Geyer, op. cit., page 26. 6-7 Dr. John Berrien Lindsey: John Edwin Windrow, John Berrien Lindsley: Educator, Physician, Social Philosopher (Chapel Hill: The Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1938), pp. 11-12. 7 "What a striking lesson..."; "an angel...": "Letters from William Walker," Ibid., pp. 178 92. 7 1845-1848: Alejandro Bolanos-Geyer, op. cit., pp. 74-79. 7 New Orleans Crescent: Albert Z. Carr, op. cit., pp. 15-27. 7 James K. Polk: Robert E. May, The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire 1854-1861 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1973; rpt. Athens: The Univ. of Georgia Press, 1989), p. 23. 7-8 "The Unity of Art": William Walker, esq., The Unity of Art--An Address Delivered Before the Alumni Society of the University of Nashville, October 3rd, 1848 (Nashville: A. Nelson, "Record" Office, 1848). 8 black sombrero: Albert Z. Carr, op. cit., page 22. 8 Ellen Martin: Ibid., pp. 6-7, 37; Alejandro Bolanos-Geyer, op. cit., page 79. 8 duel: Albert Z. Carr, op. cit., page 38. 8 sale of Crescent...move to California, re: Randolph: Ibid., page 41. 9 Herald: Ibid., pp. 56-57. 9 "people were honest...": Stanton A. Coblentz, Villains and Vigilantes: The Story of James King of William and Pioneer Justice in California (1936; rev. ed. New York: Thomas Yoselof, 1957), page 8. 9 San Francisco crime: Laurence Greene, op. cit., pp. 26-27; Albert Z. Carr, op. cit., pp. 56-58. 10 Herald editorials: Albert Z. Carr, op. cit., pp. 58-59; "A Way to stop Crime," Alejandro Bolanos-Geyer, op. cit., Vol. II (Lake st. Louis, Mo.: privately printed, 1989), pp. 83-93. 4 10-11 Judge Parsons: Albert Z. Carr, op. cit., pp.59-63; "Tucker Behind Bars," Alejandro Bolanos-Geyer, op. cit., pp. 94-102. 11 Graham Hicks: Albert Z. Carr, op. cit., pp. 64-65. 11-12 Henry P. Watkins: Ibid., pp. 73-74. 12 law practice: Robert Glass Cleland, "California and Sonora: The Day of the Filibusters," in his A History of California: The American Period (New York: Macmillan, 1922), pp. 323-42. 12 Apache murders in 1853: Laurence Greene, op. cit., pp. 28-39. 12 "Golden Age of Filibusters": J. Fred Rippy, "Anglo-American Filibusters and the Gadsden Treaty," The Hispanic-American Historical Review, Vol. V, No.2 (May 1922): pp.155-80. 12 Walker in Guaymas, Sonora: Rufus Kay Wyllys, "The Republic of Lower California, 1853-1854," The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. II, No. X (1933): 194-213; Thomas Ray Wilson, "William Walker and the Filibustering Expedition to Lower California and Sonora," Master of Arts thesis, The Univ. of Texas, August 1944, pp. 38-39. 12 $500 bonds: AIbert Z. Carr, op. cit., pp. 78-80. 13 "the most headlong breed... ": Laurence Greene, op. cit., paqe 26. 13 departure of October 17: Alejandro Bolanos-Geyer, op. cit., pp. 207-13. 13 La Paz invasion: Charles Frederick Hamsa, "William Walker's Mexican Adventure," Master of Arts history thesis, the Univ. of Nebraska, OctoDer 1968, pp. 51-59; Thomas Ray Wilson, op. cit., pp. 46-49. 13-14 shootinq episode: Thomas Ray Wilson, op. cit., page 49. 14 Henry Watkins..."failures, wharf rats...": Laurence Greene, op. cit., page 34. 14 "who controls the destinies...": Robert Glass Cleland, op. cit. 14 three o'clock in the morning...Antonio Melendrez: Robert G. Cleland, "Bandini's of Lower California," Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. VII, No.2 (February 1944): 153-66; James Mitchell Clarke, "Antonio Melendrez," Quarterly of the California Historical Society, Vol. XII, No.4 (December 1933): 318-22. 15 "The marauders...": Robert G. Cleland, op. cit. 15 200 Mexicans!: Albert Z. Carr, op. cit., paqe 83. 15 Gadsden Purchase: Ibid., pp. 84-85; Alejandro, Bolanos-Geyer, "The Gadsden 5 Connection," op. cit., pp. 244 -57 . 16 two floggings, two executions: Laurence Greene, op. cit., pp. 41-42. 16 Sonora...crossing the Colorado River: Ibid., pp. 85-89. 16 corn jar shootinq: Thomas Ray Wilson, op. cit., pp. 69-70. 16-17 retreat to San Dieqo: Laurence Greene, op. cit., pp. 45-46; Albert Z. Carr, op. cit., pp. 88-90. 17 Blandon Reyes: Gary Webb, "CIA helped fuel crack's rise in bid to aid Contras: report," Nashville Banner, August 21,1996. 17 Watkins's trial: William O. Scroggs, "The Filibusters Before the Courts," op. cit., pp. 52-66; Charles Frederick Hamsa, op. cit., pp. 99-102; Alejandro Bolanos-Geyer, op. cit. 17-18 Walker's politics: William O. Scroggs, "Walker as a California Politician," Filibusters and Financiers: The Story of William Walker and his Associates (New York: Macmillan, 1916, pp. 67-70; Albert Z. Carr, op. cit., pp. 91-92; Alejandro Bolailos-Geyer, "Champion of Broderick," op. cit., pp. 310-19. 18 Walker's trial: William O. Scroggs, "The Filibusters Before the Courts," op. cit., pp.52- 66; Albert Z. Carr, op. cit., pp. 96-97; Alejandro Bolanos-Geyer, "Acquitted," op. cit., pp. 320-27. 19 Chatham Roberdeau Wheat: Charles L. Dufour, Gentle Tiger: The Gallant Life of Roberdeau Wheat (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1957), pp. 77-81, 90-99. 19 third duel: Laurence Green, op. cit., page 63; Frederic Rosengarten, Jr., Freebooters Must Die! The Life and Death of William Walter, etc.