American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett (52 page)

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—--—. “Colonel Crockett Goes Visiting.”
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———. “David Crockett, Congressman.”
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———. “The Early Career of David Crockett.”
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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

education

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

Hammond, Eli, Capt.

Hawkins, Joseph

Hays, Samuel

Henry, Abram

Hickory Ground

High Head Jim

Holy Ground

Horseshoe Bend Massacre

Houston, Sam

Hunting

Huntsman, Adam

Indian Removal Bill

Indians.
See
Native Americans

Internal improvements

Jackson, Andrew

character

Creek War

critics of

Florida Campaign

Horseshoe Bend Massacre

inauguration

Indian position

portrait

rift with Crockett

run for presidency

and Texas

Jackson Gazette

Jacksonian Democracy

Jackson Pioneer

Jacobs, John

Jameson, Green

Johnson, Cave

Jones, Calvin, Dr.

Jones, Isaac

Kennedy, John

Land agents

Land issues

Land Ordinance of 1785

Lea, Pryor

The Life of Martin Van Buren
(Clayton & Crockett)

Line, William

The Lion of the West
(Paulding)