David Crockett
Authors: Michael Wallis
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Adventurers & Explorers, #Political, #Historical
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Frontispiece: Portrait of David Crockett painted by John Gadsby Chapman, Washington, D.C., 1834. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin)
Copyright © 2011 by Michael Wallis
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wallis, Michael, 1945–
David Crockett: the Lion of the West / Michael Wallis.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-0-393-06758-3
1. Crockett, Davy, 1786–1836. 2. Pioneers—Tennessee—Biography.
3. Legislators—United States—Biography. 4. United States. Congress. House—Biography.
5. Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)—Siege, 1836. I. Title.
F436.C95W35 2011
976.8'04092—dc22
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2011000216
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Map of Tennessee when it was part of North Carolina, 1795. (Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library Cartographic Collection)
Tennessee’s first governor John Sevier (1745–1815), portrait circa 1790. (Courtesy of the C. M. McClung Historical Collection of the Knox County Public Library)
Tsi’yu-gunsini (“Dragging Canoe”), Cherokee war chief. (Mike Smith, artist)
Nine hundred “Overmountain men” from Virginia and Tennessee assemble at Sycamore Shoals for the King’s Mountain campaign, September 1780.
The Overmountain Men
by Lloyd Branson. (Courtesy of the Tennessee State Museum, Nashville)
Battle of King’s Mountain
,
October 7, 1780
by Alonzo Chappel. (Courtesy of the C. M. McClung Historical Collection of the Knox County Public Library)
Treaty of the Holston, July 2, 1791. (Courtesy of the C. M. McClung Historical Collection of the Knox County Public Library)
Replica of David Crockett’s 1786 birthplace by the Nolichucky River. (Photograph by Michael Wallis)
The Crockett Tavern Museum, Morristown, Tennessee. (Photograph by Michael Wallis)
David Crockett’s first rifle. (Joseph A. Swann Collection)
Marriage bond, David Crockett and Polly Finley, August 12, 1806. (Recorded in the office of the County Court Clerk of Jefferson County, Tennessee)
Long Creek map, Jefferson County, Tennessee. (Courtesy of Robert Jarnagin)
Crockett’s summons to appear as a witness on behalf of his brother-in-law James Finley, Jefferson County, Tennessee, 1811. (Jefferson County, Tennessee, Archives, Lu Hinchey, director)
