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American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett

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by Buddy Levy


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  ARTICLES

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  —--—. “Colonel Crockett Goes Visiting.” National Republic 17 (October 1929): 24-25, 39.

  ———. “Davy Crockett—Bear Hunter.” National Republic 17 (August 1929): 31-37.

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  ———. “Texas History—Texas Mystery.” Sallyport—The Magazine of Rice University (February /March 1995): 13-21.

  ———. “A Reply: When Revision Becomes Obsession. Bill Groneman and the de la Peña Diary.” Military History of the West 25 (Fall 1995): 143-56.

  ———. “The Little Book That Wasn’t There: The Myth and Mystery of the de la Peña Diary.” Southern Historical Quarterly 98 (October 1994): 259-96.

  Davis, Curtis Carroll. “A Legend at Full Length: Mr. Chapman Paints Colonel Crockett—and Tells About It.” Proceeding of the American Antiquarian Society 69 (October 1959): 155-74.

  Davis, William C. “How Davy Probably Didn’t Die.” Journal of the Alamo Battlefield Association 2 (Fall 1997): 11-37.

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  Folmsbee, Stanley J. “David Crockett and West Tennessee.” West Tennessee Historical Society Publications 28 (1974): 5-24.

  Folmsbee, Stanley J., and Anna Grace Catron. “David Crockett in Texas.” East Tennessee Historical Society Publications 30 (1958): 48-74.

  ———. “David Crockett, Congressman.” East Tennessee Historical Society Publications 29 (1957): 40-78.

  ———. “The Early Career of David Crockett.” East Tennessee Historical Society Publications 28 (1956): 58-85.

  Groneman, William. “A Rejoinder: Publish Rather Than Perish—Regardless; Jim Crisp and the de la Peña Diary.” Military History of the West 25 (Fall 1995): 157-66.

  ———. “The Controversial Alleged Account of José Enrique de la Peña,” Military History of the West (Fall 1995).

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  Hardin, Stephen L. “Gallery: David Crockett.” Military Illustrated 23 (February-March 1990): 28-35.

  Hauck, Richard Boyd. “The Man in the Buckskin Hunting Shirt: Fact and Fiction in the Crockett Story.” In Davy Crockett: The Man, the Legend, the Legacy, edited by Michael A. Lofaro. Knoxville, 1985, 3-20.

  ———. “The Real Davy Crockett: Creative Autobiography and the Invention of His Legend.” Crockett at Two Hundred, edited by Michael A. Lofaro and Joe Cummings. Knoxville, 1989.

  Heale, M. J. “The Role of the Frontier in Jacksonian Politics: David Crockett and the Myth Of the Self-Made Man.” Western Historical Quarterly 4 (October 1973): 405-23.

  Henderson, Jessie A. “Unmarked Historic Spots of Franklin County.” East Tennessee Historical Magazine, 2d s., 3 (January 1935) 111:20.

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  Hunter, Marvin. “Crockett’s Colorful Career Ended in Texas.” Frontier Times 15 (1938): 139-40.

  Hunter, Mary Kate. “David Crockett of Tennessee and Texas.” East Texas Magazine 2 23, 39.

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  Hutton, Paul Andrew. “Mr. Crockett Goes to Washington.” American History (April 2000): 20-28.

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  ———. “A Tale of Two Alamos.” SMU Mustang 36 (Spring 1986): 16-27.

  Lake, Mary Daggett. “David Crockett’s Widow: The Pioneer Wife and Mother Who Was Widowed by the Fall of the Alamo.” Texas Monthly 2 (December 1938): 703-8.

  ———. “The Family of David Crockett in Texas.” Tennessee Historical Magazine series 2, 3 (1935): 174-78.

  Lindley, Thomas Ricks. “Alamo Artillery: Number, Type, Caliber and Concussion.” Alamo Journal 82 (July 1992).

  ———. “Drawing Truthful Deductions.” Journal of the Alamo Battlefield Association 1 (September 1995): 19-42.

  ———. “Killing Crockett: It’s All in the Execution.” Alamo Journal 96 (May 1995): 3-12.

  ———. “Killing Crockett, II: Theory Paraded as Fact.” Alamo Journal 97 (July 1995): 3-16.

  ———. “Killing Crockett: Lindley’s Opinion.” Alamo Journal 98 (October 1995): 9-24.

  Lofaro, Michael A. “From Boone to Crockett: The Beginnings of Frontier Humor.” Mississippi Folklore Register 14 (1980): 57-74.

  Miles, Guy S. “David Crockett Evolves, 1821-1824.” American Quarterly 8 (1956): 53-60.

  Palmquist, Robert F. “High Private: David Crockett at the Alamo.” Real West: True Tales of the American Frontier (December 1981): 12-15, 41-43.

  Pearson, Josephine A. “The Tennessee Woman Trecker—Elizabeth—Widow of David Crockett.” Tennessee Historical Magazine series 2, 3 (1935), 169-73.

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  Richardson, T. C. “The Girl Davy Left Behind.” Farm and Ranch 25 (June 1927): 3, 11.

  Shackford, James. “David Crockett: The Legend and the Symbol.” In The Frontier Humorists: Critical Views, edited by M. Thomas Inge (1975): 208-18.

  Seeyle, John. “The Well-Wrought Crockett: Or, How the Fakelorists Passed through the Credibility Gap and Discovered Kentucky.” In Toward a New American Literary History: Essays in Honor of Arlin Turner, edited by Louis J. Budd et al. Durham, NC, 1980: 91-110. Also in Lofaro, Davy Crockett, 21-45.

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  Tanenbaum, Miles. “Following Davy’s Trail: A Crockett Bibliography.” In Lofaro and Cummings, Crockett at Two Hundred, 192-241.

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  Worner, William Frederick. “David Crockett in Columbia.” Lancaster County [Pennsylvania] Historical Society Papers 27 (December 1923): 176-77.

  Wright, Marcus J. “Colonel David Crockett of Tennessee.” Magazine of American History 10 (December 1883): 484-89.

  Zaboly, Gary S. “Crockett Goes to Texas: A Newspaper Chronology,” Journal of Alamo Battlefield Association I (Summer, 1995): 5-18.

  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

 

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