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David Crockett: The Lion of the West

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by Michael Wallis


  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

 

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