{"id":31141,"date":"2015-06-16T01:29:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T06:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=31141"},"modified":"2015-06-16T01:29:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T06:29:33","slug":"is-deaf-smith-from-texas-rising-a-real-person-his-story-is-definitely-worth-telling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/06\/16\/is-deaf-smith-from-texas-rising-a-real-person-his-story-is-definitely-worth-telling\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Deaf Smith From ‘Texas Rising’ A Real Person? His Story Is Definitely Worth Telling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is Deaf Smith From ‘Texas Rising’ A Real Person? His Story Is Definitely Worth Telling<\/strong><\/p>\n

KAYLA HAWKINS
\n@KAYLAAHAWKINS<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something about real-life figures being wrapped into historical series that makes them more interesting, which I think is a big factor in the success of History\u2019s Texas Rising. For example, Jeffrey Dean Morgan\u2019s character Erastus \u201cDeaf\u201d Smith was a real Texas Ranger who did in fact fight in the Texas revolution and help General Sam Houston on the frontier. But of course, there\u2019s no way that every single thing in the miniseries could possibly be based on real life.<\/p>\n

Most of what History has shown is based on Smith\u2019s real life, though it has embellished in places to make for a better story. Thomas W. Cutrer wrote for The Texas State Historical Association, he was a partially deaf man \u2014 he lost his hearing after a sickness in the 1820s, which developed into the consumption that has been shown on Texas Rising. So even though his nickname is pronounced \u201cDeef,\u201d it is based on his real hearing loss. Smith is a real hero to Texans, which is clear in Cutrer\u2019s glowing portrait, and Smith even has a Texas county named after him. It\u2019s clear that Morgan has a lot of respect for the man he\u2019s playing too, as he told the Star-Telegram, \u201dI hope we give justice to the man, because he was a hell of a guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deaf Smith doesn\u2019t get brought up with the same reverence as a lot of his fellow Texas Rangers outside of the state, but that doesn\u2019t mean he wasn\u2019t just as hero. But one significant difference between the TV portrayal and real version of Smith is that while he had many children with his wife, Guadalupe, he never adopted a Mexican orphan, at least according to the genealogy report available on Access Genealogy, which only credits Smith\u2019s daughter and son.<\/p>\n

And Smith may have never even joined the Texian army if he hadn\u2019t faced a blockade from Mexican soldiers who kept him from his home. It upset him so much that, in the words of the Texas State Historical Association, \u201cwhen a Mexican sentry refused to allow him to enter San Antonio to visit his family, Smith joined Stephen F. Austin\u2019s army, which was then besieging the town.\u201d Meanwhile, Smith became a valued and appreciated member of the revolutionary army, especially when he carried messages, scouted, and gathered intel, just like on Texas Rising. The TSHA quotes William B. Travis, Alamo commander, to call Smith \u201c\u2018the Bravest of the Brave\u2019 in the cause of Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deaf Smith incorporates multiple storylines on Texas Rising, and Morgan has managed to navigate between them, walking the line separating reality and fiction so well that the differences don\u2019t even matter \u2014 what matters is portraying the often overlooked early American hero. Even though Erastus \u201cDeaf\u201d Smith may not be super familiar to audiences now, that doesn\u2019t mean he wasn\u2019t a very real part of the Texas Revolution.<\/p>\n

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Is Deaf Smith From ‘Texas Rising’ A Real Person? His Story Is Definitely Worth Telling KAYLA HAWKINS @KAYLAAHAWKINS There\u2019s something about real-life figures being wrapped into historical series that makes them more interesting, which I think is a big factor…<\/p>\n

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