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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
unpretentious, self-effacing manner of
whiskey offered to voters by
as woodsman and hunter
work ethic of
Crockett, David, Jr. (uncle)
Crockett, David (cousin)
Crockett, David (grandfather)
immigration of
Indian murder of
last will and testament of
Crockett, Delila
Crockett, Elizabeth (grandmother)
Indian murder of
Crockett, Elizabeth “Betsy” (sister)
Crockett, Elizabeth Patton (second wife)
character and personality of
DC’s courtship and marriage of
DC’s relationship with
death of
dowry of
estrangement of DC and
league of land granted to
motherhood of
move to Texas by
widowhood of
Crockett, James (uncle)
Crockett, James Patterson (brother)
Crockett, John (brother)
Crockett, John (father)
birth of
business ventures of
children “bound out” for labor by
DC’s relationship with
death of
debts and hardships of
as frontier ranger
frontier skills of
land speculation of
political life of
Revolutionary War service of
Crockett, John Wesley (son)
childhood and adolescence of
congressional career of
religious conversion of
Crockett, Joseph (uncle)
Crockett, Margaret Catharine (sister)
Crockett, Margaret “Polly” (daughter), see Flowers, Margaret Crockett “Polly”
Crockett, Mary Polly Finley (first wife)
DC’s courtship and marriage of
DC’s relationship with
dowry of
grave and monument of
illness and death of
motherhood of
spinning and weaving of
Crockett, Matilda (daughter)
Crockett, Nathan (brother)
Crockett, Rebecca (sister)
Crockett, Rebecca Elvira (daughter)
Crockett, Rebecca Hawkins (mother)
family background and extended family of
Crockett, Robert (kinsman)
Crockett, Robert (uncle)
Crockett, Robert Patton (son)
Crockett, Sally Thomas
Crockett, William (brother)
Crockett, William (uncle)
Crockett, William F. (son)
childhood and adolescence of
marriage of
Crockett Mountain
Crockett’s Ridge
Crockett Tavern
Cumberland Mountains
Custer, George Armstrong
Dandridge, Tenn.
Daniel (slave)
Davis, William C.
Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter
Davy Crockett Almanacks
of 1836
of 1837
of 1848
of 1854
Davy Crockett at the Alamo
Davy Crockett Goes to Congress
Declaration of Independence
Delaware City, Del.
Delaware River
Delila (slave)
democracy
Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
Democratic National Convention of 1835
Democratic Party
see also Jacksonian Democrats
Detroit, Mich.
Dickinson, Susannah Wilkerson
Direct Descendants and Kin of David Crockett (DDDC)
Disney, Walt
Disneyland (television series)
Disneyland (theme park)
Ditto’s Landing
Doggett, Thomas
Dolin, Eric Jay
Dollywood
Dougherty, R. E. C.
Dragging Canoe
Dresden, Tenn.
Drexel University
Dublin
Duck River
Dumb Jimmie’s Hollow
Dumplin community
Dumplin Creek
Dunn, John
du Pont, E. I.
Edmonson, James
Edmundson, Sarah Patton
Edmundson, William
Elder, Margaret
elections, U.S.:
of 1821
of 1823
of 1824
of 1825
of 1827
of 1828
of 1831
of 1832
of 1833
of 1835
Elk River
Elkswatawa; or, The Prophet of the West (French)
Ervin, Sam
Erwin, Andrew
Erwin, Anne Brown Clay
Erwin, Jane Patton
Erwin, John P.
Erwin, John Patton
Escambia River
Evers, Medgar
Exshaw, John
Fannin, James
Fayetteville, Tenn.
Fifty-seventh Regiment of Militia
financial panic of 1819
Finger, John
Finley, David
Finley, James (brother-in-law)
Finley, James (nephew)
Finley, Jean
Finley, Jean Kennedy (mother-in-law)
Finley, John
Finley, Nancy Barnes
Finley, Samuel
Finley, Susannah
Finley, William (brother-in-law)
Finley, William (nephew)
Finley, William “Billy” (father-in-law)
Finley’s Gap
First Bank of the United States
Fitzgerald, William
“Five Civilized Tribes,”
Florida
Flowers, Margaret Crockett “Polly” (daughter)
childhood of
Flowers, Wiley
Forbes, John
Ford’s Theatre
Forked Deer River
Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Fort Gibson
Fort Jackson
Fort Loudon
Fort Mims massacre
Fort Montgomery
Fort Strother
Fort Watauga
Foster, Ephraim H.
Foster, William L.
Founding Fathers
France
Francis Jones’s Company of Mounted Riflemen
Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin, Jesse
Franklin, Mo.
Franklin, State of
Frazier (friend)
French, James Strange
French, Janie
French and Indian War
French Broad River
French Revolution
Front Royal, Va.
Fur, Fortune, and Empire (Dolin)
fur trade
Galbraith, Elizabeth
Galbraith, Thomas
Galveston Island
Gatlinburg, Ten
n.
Gay Hill, Tex.
George III, King of England
Georgia
German Creek
Germany
Gerrard, David
Gerrard, John
Gettysburg, Battle of
Gettysburg Adams Sentinel
Gibson, John H.
Givens, David
Gowen, James Burns
Grace, Richard
Grand Ole Opry
Gray, John
Great Britain
French territory in North America acquired by
Indian land agreements and alliances with
see also American Revolution; War of 1812
Great Indian War Trail
Great Lakes
Great Smoky Mountains
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Wagon Road
Griffith, Elijah
gristmills
Guadalajara
Guinevere, Queen
Gulf of Mexico
gunpowder
Gunpowder River
Hackett, James Henry