John Crittenden Duval (1816-1897) was an American writer of Texas literature. He has been noted as being the first Texas man of letters^[1] and was dubbed the "Father of Texas Literature" by J. Frank Dobie.^[2] His Early Times in Texas was initially published serially in 1867 in Burke's Weekly (Macon, Georgia) and was finally published in book form in 1892. The story, which became a Texas classic, recounted Duval's escape from the Goliad Massacre as well as other adventures.^[1]

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[edit] Further reading

• Corner, William. John Crittenden Duval: The Last Survivor of the Goliad Massacre" in Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, v. 1, n. 1, pp. 47-67.
• Duval, J. C. (1892). Early Times In Texas. Austin, Texas: H. P. N. Gammel & Co.. http://books.google.com/books?id=YPU0AAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2009-07-15. 

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• John C. Duval's Account of the Goliad Massacre

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