David Crockett (50 page)

Porterfield, Bill. “Sam Houston, Warts and All.”
Texas Monthly
, July 1973,
www.texasmonthly.com/1873-07-01/feature6.php
.

Rosenthal, Leon S.
A History of Philadelphia’s University City
. Philadelphia: West Philadelphia Corporation, 1963,
http://uchs.net/Rosenthal/rosenthaltofc.html
.

Russell Family Files, Kraus-Everette Genealogy,
www.larkcom.us/ancestry/main/
.

Shah, Sonia. “ Resurgentmalaria.com,” www.resurgentmalaria.com/americas, 2006.

Smithwick, Noah.
The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days
. Austin: Gammel Book Company, 1900. Online edition, Southwestern Classics On-Line/Lone Star Junction, 1997,
www.oldcardboard.com/lsj/olbooks/smithwic/otd.htm
.

The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002, Online Edition.

Time
magazine. “Just Around the Backbone of North America,” October 7, 1957,
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809942,oo.html
.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. Journal Entry, Memphis, TN, December 20, 1831,
www.tocqueville.org/tn.htm
.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Department of History and Archives, Montgomery, AL,
www.archives.state.al.us/counties/tuscaloo.html
.

Van Zandt County Genealogical Society, Canton, TX,
www.txgenweb3.org/txvanzandt/vzgs.htm
.

Voelker, David J.
www.historytools.org
, 2004.

Waller, Preston Lynn, PhD. “Celebrities versus Heroes: A Case Study Using Characters from the Alamo Legend and its Cinematic Interpretation.” McLennan Community College, Waco, TX,
www.mclennan.edu/faculty/waller/alamo.htm
.

Washington, George.
The Papers of George Washington, Digital Edition
. Edited by Theodore J. Crackel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007.

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

Carroll County (TN) Deed Book A, 29–30.

Carroll County (TN) Court Minutes, 1821–26, vol. 1, 50.

Court Records of Washington County, Virginia—Minutes. Vol. 1, 39. August 1778.

Department of the Navy. Naval Historical Center, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.

Franklin County, TN, Will Book, 1808–1847. Folder 036 A. Franklin County Courthouse Annex, Winchester, TN.

Frederick County (VA) Court Records. Order Bk. 2, 456.

Greene County (NC) Deed Book. Vol. 3, 320, November 27, 1792, John Crockett from St of NC 197 acres Stogdons Fork, Lick Creek, Grant #1243.

Jefferson County Marriage Records Book 1. Entry Number 526. Jefferson County Courthouse, Dandridge, TN.

Jefferson County Marriage and Bond Book, 1792–1840
. Marriage Bond, “David Crockett to Polly Finley,” August 12, 1806. Jefferson County Courthouse, Dandridge, TN.

Surveyors Entry Book C, Surveyors District II
, Entry No. 3944, 414. Tennessee State Archives.

Transcript Copies of Circuit Court File 1808–1835. Jefferson County Archives, Jefferson County Courthouse, Dandridge, TN.

UNPUBLISHED WORKS

Caton, J. L. “Davy Crockett and Polly Finley in Jefferson County.” March 1, 1958. Transcription of unpublished memoir of George Cox. Crockett File, Jefferson County Historical Archives, Jefferson County Courthouse, Dandridge, TN.

Johnson, James Strefhan, III. “The Evolution of an American Small Town,” Masters of Science in Architecture thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2004.

Peterson, Gert.
A Chronology of the Life of David Crockett
. Unpublished manuscript, 2001.

Reilly, Joe, PhD. Presentation to the International Psychohistorical Association, Fordham University, New York, June 7, 2007.

Swann, Joseph A. “The Early Life & Times of David Crockett, 1786–1812.” Unpublished manuscript.

———. “The History of David Crockett’s First Rifle.” Unpublished paper.

———. Presentation to the East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, February 12, 2003.

Abbott, John S. C.

ABC television

Abingdon, Va.

abolitionism

Account of Col. Crockett’s Tour to the North and Down East in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Four, An
(Clark)

Adaline (slave)

Adams, John Quincy

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
(Twain)

Africa

Alabama

Alabama River

Alamo

as “Cradle of Texas Liberty,”

fall of

as historic site

Alamo, Battle of

DC’s fighting and death at

Mexican army at

thirteen-day siege at

Alcorn, John

Aldolphus (slave)

Alexander, Adam Rankin

Alexandria, Va.

Allegheny Mountains

Alsace-Lorraine

American Hotel

American Indians:

abrogation of treaties with

British land agreements and alliances with

culture of

encroachment of settlers on lands of

hostilities of settlers and

Jackson’s removal of

massacre, marauding and scalping by

medical knowledge of

slaves owned by

war paint of

see also specific Indian tribes

American Revolution

British surrender in

Cherokee alliance with British in

southern campaign of

veterans of

anti-Catholicism

Appalachian Mountains

Arkansas

Arkansas Gazette,

Armstrong, Zella

Army, U.S.

Army of East Tennessee

Army of West Tennessee

Arnold, William

Arthur, King

Atlantic Ocean

Attakullakulla

Austin, Stephen Fuller

Austin Colony, Tex.

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The
(Franklin)

baby boom generation

Bailey, Nathan

Ball, Mary

“Ballad of Davy Crockett, The,”

Baltimore, Md.

Bangor, Maine

Bank of the United States

Baptist Church

Barnum, P. T.

Barnum’s Hotel

barter

Bateman’s Drops

Bays Mountain

Bean, Jesse

Bean, Lydia Russell

Bean, Rosamond

Bean, Russell

Bean, William

Bean’s Creek

Rattlesnake Spring Branch of

Becknell, William

Bent Creek Baptist Church

Benton, Jesse

Benton, Thomas Hart

Berryville, Va.

Bible

Biddle, Nicholas

Big Buffalo River

Big Limestone Creek

black bears

diet of

hibernation of

hunting of

male

mating of

products from

Blackburn, James

Black Creek

Black Warrior River

Black Warriors’ Path

Bland, Joy

Blout, William

Blue, Uriah

Blue Ridge Mountains

Boatland, Tenn.

Boiling Fork

Bolivar, Tenn.

Book of Chronicles, The
(Huntsman)

Boone, Daniel

Boone, Rebecca

Boon’s Creek

Booth, Edwin

Booth, John Wilkes

Booth, Junius Brutus

Boston, Mass.

Bowie, James

Bowie, Rezin

Bradford, Henry

Bradshaw, William

Brands, H. W.

Brazos River

British Army

British Parliament

Brown, Jesse

Brown, Mr.

Brown’s Indian Queen Hotel

Brownsville, Tenn.

Brulgrudery, Dennis

Bryan, Morgan

Bryant, William Cullen

Buchanan, Maximilian H.

Burgin, Abner

Burgin, Margaret Patton

Burgin, Rebecca Ann

Burns, Robert

Burnt Corn, Battle of

Butler, William Edward

Cahaba River

Caldwell, James

Calhoun, John C.

Calloway, Richard

Camden, N.J.

Camp Blout

Camp Creek

camp meetings

Camp Strother

Canada

Canaday, John

as DC’s mentor and friend

Canaday, Margaret Thornbrough

Canaday, Robert

Cane River

Cannon, Newton

Carey, E. L.

Carey & Hart

Carroll, William

Carson, Sam

Carson’s Branch

Carter, John

Carter’s Valley

Castrillón, Manuel Fernández

Caswell, Richard

Catawba River

Cedar Creek

Chapman, Helen

Chapman, John Gadsby

Charleston Courier,

Chattanooga, Tenn.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Cheek, Jesse

Cheeks Crossroads, Tenn.

Cherokee Indians

British alliance with

DC’s support of

encroachment on lands of

Sam Houston and

white settlements attacked by

Cherokee Nation

Chesapeake Bay

Chester Gap

Chickamauga Indians

Chickasaw Nation

encroachment on lands of

childbirth complications

Chilton, Thomas

collaboration on Crockett’s autobiography by

congressional career of

Choctaw Bayou

Choctaw Indians

land ceded to Jackson by

cholera

Christian, William

Christianburg, Va.

Cincinnati, Ohio

civil rights movement

Civil War, U.S.

Clark, Isabella Hadden Hopkins Hanks

Clark, James (congressman)

Clark, James (settler)

Clark, Pat

Clark, William

Clarke, Matthew St. Clair

Clarksville, Tex.

Clay, Henry

Clayton, Augustin Smith

Clemens, Samuel,
see
Twain, Mark

Clinch River

Cocke, John

Coffee, John

cold war

Colliers Crossroads

Collins, James

Comanche Indians

Comet Almanack for 1836,

Conecuh River

Confederacy of Southern States

Congress, U.S.

“War Hawks” in

see also
House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

Connecticut

coonskin caps

Cooper, James Fennimore

Coosa River

Corzine, Shelby

Coupar Angus

Cove Creek

Cowan, John

Cowpens, Battle of

Creek Indians

British alliance with

“Friendly” vs. “Red Stick,”

Jackson’s treaty with

Creek Indian War

battles of

DC in

food and supply shortages

Crisp, Mansil

Crockett, Aaron (brother)

Crockett, Alexander (uncle)

Crockett, Catherine (niece)

Crockett, Clorinda Boyett

Crockett, David

allegiance to provisional government of Texas sworn by

ambition of

anger of

birth of

boat-making skills of

boosting of public image by

boyhood and adolescence of

boyhood indentured servitude of

buckskin clothing and coonskin cap of

business ventures of

cabins built by

campaigning of

celebrated failures and mishaps of

as characteristically American

Colonel title earned by

commercialization of

death of

drinking of

early married life of

eccentricities of

1834 autobiography of, see
Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee, A

fame of

farming of

final letter of

financial difficulties and debts of

as folk hero

folksy, expansive personality of

frequent moves of

generosity of

as “gentleman from the cane,”

“Go ahead” motto of

“hell or Texas” phrase of

homespun humor of

honesty and fairness of

hunting dogs of

as icon of popular culture

ill-fated gunpowder experiment of

independence and stubbornness of

Indian philosophy of

initials carved in beech trees by

intelligence and wit of

land acquired by

land bill of

limited formal education of

marksmanship of

military service of

myth and misinformation about

near drowning of

neglect of wife and children by

personal popularity and charm of

physical appearance and physique of

political attacks on

political career of

populist hypermasculine persona of

portraits of

premature death accounts of

presidential run proposed to

press accounts of

prized first .48–caliber flintlock rifle of

quest for wives of

racist expressions of

reckless behavior of

recurrent malaria bouts of

religious references of

reported execution of

as representative of common man vs. landed gentry

resourcefulness of

restlessness and curiosity of

rhetorical and colorful language skills of

Scots-Irish heritage of

search for land by

self-confidence and optimism of

semiliteracy of

siblings of

signature of

slaves owned and sold by

storytelling of

teenage working odyssey of

unauthorized biographies and ghostwritten books on