American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett (51 page)

Selected Works
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Arpad, Joseph. “David Crockett, An Original Legendary Eccentricity and Early American Character.” Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, 1970.

Catron, Anna Grace. “The Public Career of David Crockett.” Master’s thesis, University of Tennessee, 1955.

King, Margaret Jane. “The Davy Crockett Craze: A Case Study in Popular Culture.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii, 1976.

Shackford, James A. “The Autobiography of David Crockett: An Annotated Edition.” Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1948.

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

American State Papers, Indian Affairs,
Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1832-1834.

BOOKS

Abbott, John S. C.
David Crockett.
New York, 1874.

Alderman, Ralph M., ed.
The Letters of James Kirke Paulding.
Wisconsin, 1962.

Anderson, Paul F.
The Davy Crockett Craze: A Look at the 1950’s Phenomenon and the Davy Crockett Collectibles.
Hillside, IL, 1996.

Audubon, John James.
Writings and Drawings.
New York, 1999.

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Treasury of Audubon Birds.
New York, 1993.

Bagnall, Norma Hayes.
On Shaky Ground: The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812.
Columbia, MO, 1996.

Barker, Eugene C.
The Austin Papers.
3 vols. Washington, DC, 1919-1926.

Bartram, William.
Travels and Other Writings.
New York, 1996.

Bercovitch, Sacvan.
The Puritan Origins of the American Self.
New Haven, CT, 1975.

Binkley, William C.
Official Correspondence of the Texan Revolution, 1835-1836.
2 vols. New York, 1936.

Brands, H. W.
Lone Star Nation: How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independence—and Changed America.
New York, 2004.

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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin.
New York, 2000. Brazos.
Life of Robert Hall.
Reprint. Austin, 1992.

Brown, Peter Lancaster.
Halley’s Comet and the Principia.
Suffolk, UK, 1986.

Buchanan, John.
Jackson’s Way: Andrew Jackson and the People of the Western Waters.
New York, 2001.

Burstein, Andrew.
The Passions of Andrew Jackson.
New York, 2003.

Burke, James Wakefield.
David Crockett: The Man Behind the Myth.
Austin, 1984.

Campbell, Randolph B.
Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State.
New York, 2003.

Cantrell, Gregg.
Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas.
New Haven, CT, 2001.

Catlin, George.
North American Indians.
Edited by Peter Matthiessen. New York, 1989.

Chernow, Ron.
Alexander Hamilton.
New York, 2004.

Cobia, Manley F.
Journey into the Land of Trials: The Story of Davy Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo.
Franklin, TN, 2003.

Crisp, James E.
Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution.
New York, 2005.

Crockett, David.
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee.
Introduction by Paul Andrew Hutton. Lincoln, NE, 1987.

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A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee.
Edited by James A. Shackford and Stanley J. Folmsbee. Knoxville, 1973.

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A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee.
Edited by John J. Arpad. New Haven, CT, 1972.

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An Account of Col. Crockett’s Tour to the North and Down East, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Four.
Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1835.

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The Life of Martin Van Buren: Hair-Apparent to the “Government,” and the Appointed Successor of General Jackson.
Philadelphia, 1834.

Cutrer, Thomas W.
Ben McCulloch and the Frontier Military Tradition.
Chapel Hill, NC, 1993.

Davis, James D.
History of the City of Memphis.
Memphis, 1873.

Davis, William C.
Lone Star Rising: The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic.
New York, 2004.

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Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis.
New York, 1998.

de la Peña, Enriqué.
With Santa Anna in Texas, A Personal Narrative of the Revolution.
Edited by Carmen Perry. College Station, TX, 1975.

Derr, Mark.
The Frontiersman: The Real Life and Many Legends of Davy Crockett.
New York, 1993.

de Tocqueville, Alexis.
Journey to America.
New York, 1971.

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Democracy in America.
New York, 1969.

DeVoto, Bernard.
Mark Twain’s America.
Boston, 1932.

Dorson, Richard M.
Folklore and Fakelore.
Boston, 1976.

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American Folklore.
Chicago, 1959.

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Davy Crockett: American Comic Legend.
New York, 1939.

Eckert, Allan W.
The Frontiersman: A Narrative.
Ashland, KY, 2001.

Field, Joseph.
Three Years in Texas.
Boston, 1836.

Filisola, Vincente.
Memoirs for the History of the War in Texas.
2 vols. Austin, 1986-1987.

Flannery, Tim.
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples.
New York, 2001.

Flores, Richard R.
Remembering the Alamo: Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol.
Austin, 2002.

Ford, Alice.
Audubon’s Animals: The Quadrupeds of North America.
New York, 1951.

Foreman, Gary L.
Crockett: The Gentleman from the Cane.
Dallas, 1986.

Franklin, Benjamin.
Autobiography.
Leonard W. Labaree et al, eds. New Haven, CT, 1964.

Gaddis, John Lewis.
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past.
New York, 2002.

Garland, Hamlin, ed.
The Autobiography of David Crockett.
New York, 1923.

Graves, John.
Goodbye to a River.
Houston, 1959.

Gregory, Jack, and Strickland, Rennard.
Sam Houston with the Cherokees 1829-1833.
Austin, 1967.

Groneman, William.
Eyewitness to the Alamo.
Plano, TX, 2001.

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Death of a Legend: The Myth and Mystery Surrounding the Death of Davy Crockett.
Plano, TX, 1999.

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Defense of a Legend. Crockett and the de la Peña Diary.
Plano, TX, 1994.

Halbert, H. S., and T. H. Ball.
The Creek War of 1813 and 1814.
Chicago, 1895.

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The Creek War of 1813 and 1814.
Edited by Frank L. Owsley, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL, 1995. Haley, James L.
Sam Houston.
Norman, OK, 2002.

Hansen, Todd.
The Alamo Reader.
Mechanicsburg, PA, 2003.

Hardin, Stephen L.
Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836.
Austin, 1994.

Harrigan, Stephen.
The Gates of the Alamo.
New York, 2000.

Hauck, Richard Boyd.
Crockett: A Bio-Bibliography.
Westport, CT, 1982.

Hoffer, Peter Charles.
Sensory Worlds in Early America.
Baltimore, 2003.

Jackson, Andrew.
The Correspondence of Andrew Jackson.
Edited by John Spencer Bassett and J. Franklin Jameson. 7 vols. Washington, DC, 1926-1935.

Jahoda, Gloria.
The Trail of Tears.
New York, 1975.

James, Marquis.
The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston.
Indianapolis, 1929.

Jenkins, John H., ed. and trans.
Papers of the Texan Revolution, 1835-1836.
10 vols. Austin, TX, 1973.

Jones, Landon Y.
William Clark and the Shaping of the West.
New York, 2004.

Kilgore, Dan.
How Did Davy Die?
College Station, TX, 1978.

Lawrence, Bill.
The Early American Wilderness as the Explorers Saw It.
New York, 1991.

Lindley, Thomas Ricks.
Alamo Traces: New Evidence, New Conclusions.
Plano, TX, 2003.

Lofaro, Michael.
Daniel Boone: An American Life.
Lexington, KY, 2003.

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Davy Crockett: The Man, the Myth, the Legacy, 1786-1986.
Knoxville, 1985.

Lofaro, Michael, and Joe Cummings, eds.
Crockett at Two Hundred.
Knoxville, 1989.

Long, Jeff.
Duel of Eagles.
New York, 1990.

Lord, Walter.
A Time to Stand.
New York, 1960.

Meine, Franklin J.
Tall Tales of the Southwest: An Anthology of Southern and Southwestern Humor, 1830-1860.
New York, 1933.

Mintz, Steven.
Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood.
Cambridge, MA, 2004.

Nabokov, Peter, ed.
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations From Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000.
New York, 1999.

Nevins, Alan, ed.,
The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845.
New York, 1928.

Nofi, Albert A.
The Alamo and the Texas War of Independence, September 30, 1835, to April 21, 1836.
Conshohocken, PA, 1992.

O’Brien, Sean Michael.
In Bitterness and in Tears: Andrew Jackson’s Destruction of the Creeks and Seminoles.
Westport, CT, 2003.

Parrington, Vernon Louis.
Main Currents in American Thought.
New York, 1927.

Parton, James.
General Jackson.
New York, 1892.

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Life of Andrew Jackson: In Three Volumes.
New York, 1860.

Paulding, James K.
Westward Ho! A Tale.
2 vols. New York, 1832.

Paulding, William I.
Literary Life of James K. Paulding.
New York, 1867.

Peterson, Roger Tory, and Fisher, James.
Wild America.
New York, 1955.

Potter, R. M.
The Fall of the Alamo.
San Antonio, TX, 1860.

Ratner, Lorman A.
Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants.
Westport, CT, 1997.

Register of Debates in Congress.
vols. 3-11. Washington, DC, 1827-1835.

Reid, John, and Eaton, Henry.
The Life of Andrew Jackson.
1817. Tuscaloosa, AL, 1974.

Reid, Samuel C., Jr.
The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch’s Texas Rangers.
New York, 1847.

Remini, Robert.
Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars.
New York, 2001.

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The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America’s First Military Victory.
New York, 1999.

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Daniel Webster: The Man and His Times.
New York, 1997.

Roberts, Randy, and James S. Olson.
A Line in the Sand.
New York, 2001.

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John Wayne: American.
New York, 1995.

Rourke, Constance.
Davy Crockett.
New York, 1934.

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American Humor: A Study of the National Character.
New York, 1931.

Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de.
The Mexican Side of the Texan Revolution.
Translated by Carlos Castañeda. Dallas, 1928.

Schlesinger, Arthur.
The Age of Jackson.
New York, 1945.

Schoelwer, Susan P., and Tom Glaser.
Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience.
Dallas, 1985.

Shackford, James A.
David Crockett: The Man and the Legend.
Chapel Hill, NC, 1956.

Shapiro, Irwin.
Yankee Thunder: The Legendary Life of Davy Crockett.
New York, 1944.

Slotkin, Richard.
Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860.
Middletown, CT, 1973.

Smith, Richard Penn.
On to the Alamo: Colonel Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas.
Edited by John Seeyle. New York, 2003.

Smith, Seba.
The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingsville, Away Down East in the State of Maine, Written by Himself.
Boston, 1833. Reprint New York, 1973.

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My Thirty Years Out of the Senate.
New York, 1859.

Sterling, Keir B.
Selected Works by Eighteenth Century Naturalists and Travel Writers.
New York, 1974.

Sugden, John.
Tecumseh: A Life.
New York, 1997.

Sutherland, John.
The Fall of the Alamo.
San Antonio, TX, 1936.

Swisher, John M.
The Swisher Memoirs.
San Antonio, TX, 1932.

Tinkle, Lon.
Thirteen Days to Glory.
New York, 1958.

Torrence, Robert M., and Robert L. Whittenburg.
Colonel Davy Crockett, A Genealogy.
Washington, DC, 1956.

Weaver, Herbert, and Kermit L. Hall, eds.
Correspondence of James K. Polk.
Vol. 3, 1835-1836. Nashville, 1975.

Weaver, Herbert, and Paul H. Bergeron, eds.
Correspondence of James K. Polk.
Vol. 1, 1817-1833. Nashville, 1969.

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Correspondence of James K. Polk.
Vol. 2, 1833-1834. Nashville, 1972.

Williams, Amelia, and Eugene C. Barker, eds.
Writings of Sam Houston,
8 Vols. Austin, 1938-1943.

Williams, Emma Inman.
Historic Madison, The Story of Jackson, and Madison County, Tennessee, from the Prehistoric Moundbuilders to 1917.
Jackson, TN, 1946.

Winders, Richard Bruce.
Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution.
Abilene, TX, 2004.