David Crockett (2 page)

Anonymous portrait of Jean Laffite, pirate, ally of Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, and slave smuggler. (Courtesy of the Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas)

Early portrait of Sam Houston. (San Jacinto Museum, Houston, Texas)

Major General Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson. (
Major General Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, 1829–1837
, painted by Thomas Sully [1783–1872]; James Burton Longacre [1794–1869], engraver; engraving published by Wm. H. Morgan, Philadelphia, circa 1820; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

Hand-colored lithograph of Creek Chief McIntosh, circa 1836, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen and published originally by D. Rice and A. N. Hart, Philadelphia. (On loan from Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation Fund, Inc.)

Burial site of Polly Crockett, first wife of David Crockett, near Rattlesnake Branch, Franklin County, Tennessee. (Joseph A. Swann Collection)

Map of Tennessee, 1822. (Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library Cartographic Collection)

David Crockett delivers a stump speech during his congressional campaign. (From an 1869 edition of the autobiography
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee
by David Crockett, published by John E. Potter and Company, Philadelphia)

Replica of Crockett’s last home in Rutherford, Tennessee. (Photograph by Michael Wallis, Michael Wallis Collection)

Final resting place of Crockett’s mother, Rebecca, in Rutherford County, Tennessee. (Photograph by Michael Wallis, Michael Wallis Collection)

Reelfoot Lake, formed during the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12. (Photograph by Michael Wallis, Michael Wallis Collection)

Obion River, Gibson County, Tennessee. (Photograph by Michael Wallis, Michael Wallis Collection)

The Trail of Tears
, painting by Robert Lindneux, 1942. (Courtesy of Woolaroc Museum, Bartlesville, Oklahoma)

Sam Houston, a Crockett associate and the first president of the Republic of Texas. (Prints and Photographs Collection, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin)