David Crockett (53 page)

Hickman County

Jefferson County

“land of the shakes” in

Lawrence County

Lincoln County

Madison County

Ninth Congressional District of

statehood granted to

Sullivan County

tourism in

Twelfth Congressional District of

as “Volunteer State,”

Weakley County

western

wilderness in

Tennessee, University of

Tennessee General Assembly

DC’s campaigns for and service in

DC’s support of poor and needy in

Fifteenth meeting of

Fourteenth meeting of

Tennessee Historical Commission

Tennessee Land Bill

Tennessee Militia

Tennessee Mounted Gunmen

Tennessee Mounted Volunteers

Tennessee River

Tennessee State Legislature,
see
Tennessee General Assembly

Texas

American colonists in

Comanche raids on

DC’s departure for

1845 statehood of

as Lone Star State

planned liberation of

Sam Houston and

slavery issue in

sovereign Republic of

Texas Revolution

DC’s enlistment in

opposing American factions in

see also
Alamo, Battle of; San Jacinto, Battle of

Texas Road

Thames, Battle of the

Thermopylae, Battle of

Thirty-ninth Infantry

Thompson, John

Three Roads to the Alamo
(Davis)

Tinkle, George

Tinkle, Lindsey Kavendar

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Tombigbee River

Tookabatcha

Trail of Tears

Travis, William Barrett

Treasury Department, U.S.

Treaty of Fort Jackson

Treaty of Ghent

Trimble, James

Trinity River

Tsunu Iahunski

Tucker, Enoch

Turkey Town Treaty

Turner, Roger

Twain, Mark

typhoid fever

Unaka Mountains

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Aiken)

Union Hotel

United States:

economic depressions in

economic power of

foreign trade of

great western migration in

land speculation in

mythology of the American West in

political upheaval and change in

taxation in

United States Hotel

Van Buren, Martin

Vance, Robert Brank

Van Zandt, Catherine Moon

Van Zandt, Jacob, Jr.

Van Zandt, Jacob, Sr.

Vaulse, James

Verplanck, Gulian Crommelin

Victoria, Queen of England

Virginia

Voluntary Auxiliary Corps of the Texian Army

Walt Disney studio

Walton, George

Walton, George, Jr.

Walton, Octavia Claudia

Ward, Nancy

War Department, U.S.

War of 1812

British attack on Washington, D.C., in

food and supply shortages in

major engagements of

peace treaty in

see also
Creek Indian War

Warren, Edward

Washington, Ark.

Washington, D.C.

British burning of public buildings in

hotels and boarding houses in

lobbyists in

Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, George

Washington-on-the-Brazos, Tex.

Washington Theater

Watauga Association

Watauga River

Watergate investigation

Watkins Ferry, Va.

Watt, Robert

Weatherford, William,
see
Red Eagle

Webster, Daniel

Wesson, Dick

Westfield Monthly Meeting of Friends

“When You Wish upon a Star,”

Whig Party

White, Hugh Lawson

White, James

White’s Fort

Wigwam Neosho

Wilderness Trail

Williams, Lewis

Wilson, Abraham

Winchester, Amarante Loiselle

Winchester, James

Winchester, Marcus Brutus

Winchester, Tenn.

Winchester, Va.

Wolf River

Womack, Jacob

Womack’s Fort

Wonderful World of Disney, The

World Book Encyclopedia

World War I

York, Alvin C.

Your Hit Parade
Top Ten list

Zulus

A best-selling author and award-winning reporter, Michael Wallis is a historian and biographer of the American West who has gained national prominence for a body of work beginning in 1988 with
Oil Man
, his biography of Frank Phillips.

His fifteen other books include
Route 66: The Mother Road
, credited with sparking the resurgence of interest in the highway, as well as
The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West
,
Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
,
Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America’s Heartland
,
Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
, and
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride
. His work has appeared in hundreds of national and international magazines and newspapers, including
Time
,
Life
,
People
,
Smithsonian
,
The New Yorker
, and the
New York Times
.

Wallis has won many prestigious awards and honors. They include the Will Rogers Spirit Award, the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, the Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, and the Best Western Nonfiction Award from the Western Writers of America.

He was inducted into the Writers Hall of Fame of America and the Oklahoma Professional Writers Hall of Fame, and was the first inductee into the Oklahoma Route 66 Hall of Fame. He received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, as well as the Lynn Riggs Award and the first John Steinbeck Award.

A charismatic speaker who has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Wallis was featured as the voice of the Sheriff in
Cars
, an animated feature film from Pixar Studios.

Wallis and his wife, Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis, make their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.