David Crockett (53 page)
Authors: Michael Wallis
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Adventurers & Explorers, #Political, #Historical
Hickman County
Jefferson County
“land of the shakes” in
Lawrence County
Lincoln County
Madison County
Ninth Congressional District of
statehood granted to
Sullivan County
tourism in
Twelfth Congressional District of
as “Volunteer State,”
Weakley County
western
wilderness in
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
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.