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)
Little Rock, Ark.
Louisiana Purchase
Lynn, Joseph, Maj.

 
Madison, James
Martin, Albert
Matthews, Captain
McClung, Henry
McCulloch, Ben
McIver, Duncan
McQueen, Peter
Memphis, Tenn.
Menchacha, Antonio
Mexico
Miller, Pleasant M.
Mitchell, James C.
Montgomery.P., Maj.
Murfreesboro
Myers, Adam
Myers, Henry

 
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett book tour for
Nashville Republican
Nashville Whig
National Banner
National debt
Native Americans
and Creek War
Florida Campaign against
Horseshoe Bend Massacre
Indian removal policy
Neill, James C., Col.
New Madrid earthquakes
New York, NY
Niles Register
North Carolina
North Carolina land warrants

 
Obion River
Overton, John

 
Parker, Fess
Patton, George
Paulding, James Kirke
Philadelphia, Pa.
Pioneers
Polk, James Knox
land policy
Pryer, Thomas

 
Ramirez y Sesma, Gen.
Red Eagle, Chief
Red Sticks
Republicans
Republic of Texas
Revolutionary War
Russell, George, Capt.

 
San Antonio de Béxar
Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de, Gen.
Seaton, William Winston
Second Bank of the U.S.
Seguín, Capt.
Sharecropping
Shoal Creek
Siler, Jacob
Smith, Henry
Smith, John
Smith, Richard Penn
Smith, Seba
Spain
Squatters
Squirrel hunt
Standing Committee of Propositions and Grievances
Stout, Henry, Capt.
Sutherland, John, Dr.
Swisher, John

 
Tallusahatchee Massacre
Tecumseh, Chief
Tennessee
Tennessee Mounted Gunmen
Tennessee Mounted Volunteers
Tennessee Vacant Land Bill
Tennessee Volunteers
Tewulle, Chief
Texas
Thompson, Jack
Tinkle, Lindsey
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Trail of Tears
Travis, William B.
Trip, Reuben
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)

 
Urrea, José de, Gen.

 
Van Buren, Martin
Vance, Robert, Dr.
Verplank, Gulian

 
War of 1812
Watauga Settlement
Webster, Daniel
West Florida
West Point
Whigs
White, Hugh Lawson
Williams, John
Wilson, Abraham
Winchester, Marcus B.
Wolf hunt