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INDEX
Page references that are italicized refer to illustrations.
Adams, John Quincy
Alabama
Alamo
The Alamo (Billy Bob Thornton film)
The Alamo (John Wayne film)
Alexander, Adam, Col.
An Account of Col. Crockett’s Tour
Arkansas Gazette
Arnold, William, Gen.
Austin, Stephen F.
Baltimore, Md.
Banking issues
Battle of King’s Mountain
Battle of San Jacinto
Bean’s Creek
Bear hunt
Benton, Jesse
Biddle, Nicholas
Blackburn, James
Black Warrior Town
Blair, John
Blount, Willie
Blue, Uriah, Maj.
Bonham, James Butler
The Book of Chronicles (Huntsman)
Boone, Daniel
Boston, Ma.
Bound boys
Bowie, James
Brazoria Texas Republican
Britain
Brown, Dick
Buckskins
Burgin, Abner
Burgin, Rebecca Ann
Butler, William E., Dr.
Caldwell, James
Calhoun, John C.
Canebreaks
Carey & Hart
Carroll, William
Carson, Sam
Cattle drive
Chapman, John Gadsby
Charleston Courier
Cheek, Jesse
Cherokee tribe
Chickasaw tribe
Childers, Robert, Col.
Childs, Maj.
Chilton, Thomas
Christmas guns
Claiborne, Gen.
Clark, James
Clark, Matthew St. Claire
Clark, William
Clay, Henry
Clayton, Augustin Smith
Coffee, John, Gen.
Congressional Reservation Line
Cooke, John
Corzine, Shelby
Creek Nation
Creek War
Crockett, David (grandfather)
Crockett, David
Alamo
ancestors
birth of children
book tour
buckskin vest
campaigns
character/personality
childhood
congressman
courting
Creek War
death at Alamo
death of Polly (wife)
debts
educa
tion
father: death of; debts of
57th Regiment
hunting
image-making
industrial complex ruin
land issues
legacy in films and literature
legislation/voting
magistrate
Crockett, David
malaria bouts
march to San Antonio
marriages
moves of
myths about
Narrative
portraits
“Pretty Betsey” (rifle)
rift with Andrew Jackson
runaway
Tennessee legislature
Tennessee Mounted Gunmen
Texas visit
Crockett, Elizabeth Patton
marital strain
Crockett, James
Crockett, John
Crockett, John Wesley
Crockett, Joseph
Crockett, Margaret “Polly,”
Crockett, Polly Finley
Crockett, Rebecca Hawkins
Crockett, Robert Patton
Crockett, William
Crockett Almanacs
Daily Courier (Portland, Maine)
Davis, James D.
De la Pena, José Enrique
Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
Downing Gazette
Du Pont, E.I.
Eaton Affair
Elder, Margaret
Election of 1828
Emuckfaw Creek
Erwin, James
Fannin, Col.
Ferguson, Robert, Maj.
Finley, Jean Kennedy
Finley, William
Fitzgerald, William
Forbes, John
Fort Barrancas
Fort Decatur
Fort Deposit
Fort Mims
Fort Strother
Fort Talladega
Francis, Josiah
Franklin, Benjamin
Frelinghuysen, Theodore
Frontier
Frontierland (TV series)
Gaines, James
Galbreath, Thomas
Gales, Joseph
Gibson, John, Gen.
Gray, John
Green, Duff
Griffith, Elijah
Grundy, Felix
Guess, John
Hackett, James
Halley’s Comet