David Crockett: The Lion of the West

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by Michael Wallis


  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

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  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.

 

 

 


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