In his novel Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy daws on the Crabb filibuster along with others. In the early part of the book Captain White's filibuster sets out in the late '40s fom Texas instead of from California in the late '50s. But it is wiped out in Mexico (by Comanches, not Mexicans), the only survivor is a teenaged boy, and, like Crabb, White ends up with his head in a jar of mescal. Those were rough times.