Michael Wallis - David Crockett: The Lion of the West
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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, 17861836. 2. PioneersTennesseeBiography.
3. LegislatorsUnited StatesBiography. 4. United States. Congress. HouseBiography.
5. Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)Siege, 1836. I. Title.
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F OR S UZANNE F ITZGERALD W ALLIS FOR NEVER LOSING FAITH IN ME
AND
J OE S WANN, A TRUE SON OF T ENNESSEE
Map of Tennessee when it was part of North Carolina, 1795. (Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library Cartographic Collection)
Tennessees first governor John Sevier (17451815), portrait circa 1790. (Courtesy of the C. M. McClung Historical Collection of the Knox County Public Library)
Tsiyu-gunsini (Dragging Canoe), Cherokee war chief. (Mike Smith, artist)
Nine hundred Overmountain men from Virginia and Tennessee assemble at Sycamore Shoals for the Kings Mountain campaign, September 1780. The Overmountain Men by Lloyd Branson. (Courtesy of the Tennessee State Museum, Nashville)
Battle of Kings 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 Crocketts 1786 birthplace by the Nolichucky River. (Photograph by Michael Wallis)
The Crockett Tavern Museum, Morristown, Tennessee. (Photograph by Michael Wallis)
David Crocketts 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)
Crocketts 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)
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, 18291837 , painted by Thomas Sully [17831872]; James Burton Longacre [17941869], 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)
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