American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett (47 page)

3
Blair, “Six Davy Crocketts,” 457.

4
Arpad,
Original Legendary,
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
310.

5
Davis,
Three Roads,
323.

6
Parrington,
Main Currents in American Thought,
vol. 2: 165.

7
Arpad,
Original Legendary,
195. Parrington,
Main Currents in American Thought,
vol. 2: 170-71.

8
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
148, 307n. It appears that the original letter has been lost.

9
Arpad,
Original Legendary,
193-96.

10
Derr,
Frontiersman,
203.

11
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
148. Arpad,
Original Legendary,
185.

12
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
148.

13
Arpad,
Original Legendary,
187-88.

14
Letter to William T. Yeatman, June 15, 1834. quoted in Davis,
History of Memphis,
155.

15
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
154. Derr,
Frontiersman,
203.

16
Haley,
Sam Houston,
101. Shackford,
Man and Legend,
308n.

17
Haley,
Sam Houston,
101. Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
235.

18
Quoted in Haley,
Sam Houston,
438n. Sam Houston to John H. Houston, 31 July 1833, in Amelia Williams and Eugene C. Barker, eds.
Writings of Sam Houston
(Austin, TX, 1938-1943), vol. 5: 5-6.

19
Arpad,
Original Legendary,
187. Shackford,
Man and Legend,
154, 307n.

20
Arpad,
Original Legendary,
187.

21
Derr,
Frontiersman,
205.

22
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
157.

23
Ibid.

24
Ibid, 158.

25
Crockett to Carey & Hart, May 27, 1834. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection, New York Public Library. Quoted in Davis,
Three Roads,
390 and 688n.

26
Derr,
Frontiersman,
206. Shackford,
Man and Legend,
158.

27
Quoted in Davis,
Three Roads,
391. Helen Chapman to Emily Blair, May 1, 1834, William W. Chapman Papers. Center for American History, Austin, TX.

28
Folmsbee and Catron, “David Crockett: Congressman,” no. 28 (1957): 69-71.

29
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
158.

30
Ibid, 159.

31
Derr,
Frontiersman,
207; Hamlin Garland,
The Autobiography of David Crockett
(New York, 1923), 149.

32
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
159. The book tour is summarized in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
156-61.

33
Ibid.

34
Ibid, 161.
Niles
[Washington, DC]
Weekly Register,
ed. H. Niles, 4b: 252.

35
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
161.

36
Quoted in Curtis Carroll Davis, “A Legend at Full-Length: Mr. Chapman Paints Colonel Crockett—and Tells About It,”
American Antiquarian Society
(October 1959), 165.

37
Ibid.

38
Ibid, 166.

39
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
167. Davis,
Three Roads,
392.

40
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
163, 309n. Letter to William Hack, June 9, 1834, Miscellaneous Collection, Tennessee Historical Society. Also in
American Historical Magazine,
2, 2 (April 1897): 179-80.

41
Register of Debates in Congress,
10: 4,586-88.

42
From Chapman, quoted in Davis, “Mr. Chapman Paints Colonel Crockett,” 173.

43
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
164.

44
Davis,
History of Memphis,
155.

Chapter 13: “That
Fickle, Flirting
Goddess” Fame

1
Davis, “Mr. Chapman Paints Colonel Crockett,” 171.

2
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
167.

3
Jim Cooper, “A Study of Some David Crockett Firearms,”
East Tennessee Historical Society Papers
8 (1966): 66. Shackford 309-310n.
Attakapas Gazette
[St. Martinville, LA], June 12, 1834. Davis,
Three Roads,
393.

4
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
168. For an in-depth discussion of Crockett’s numerous rifles, see Cooper, “Crockett Firearms,” 62-69.

5
Quoted in Robert V. Remini,
Daniel Webster: The Man and His Times
(New York, 1997), 420.

6
Remini,
Daniel Webster,
9.

7
Folmsbee and Catron, “David Crockett and West Tennessee,” 20.

8
Ibid. Shackford,
Man and Legend,
168.

9
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
168. David Crockett,
An Account of Col. Crockett’s Tour to the North and Down East, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Four
(Philadelphia, 1835).

10
Crockett presumably nicknamed this new gun “Pretty Betsey” to differentiate it from his favored “Betsey.” See Shackford,
Man and Legends,
169. Folmsbee and Catron, “David Crockett and West Tennessee,” 20n. Cooper, “Crockett Firearms,” 66.

11
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
169.

12
Quoted by W. Frederick Worner, “David Crockett in Columbia,”
Lancaster County Historical Society Papers
27: 177.

13
Letter from Crockett to Nicholas Biddle, October 7, 1834, Nicholas Biddle Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

14
Quoted in Derr,
Frontiersman,
214. Nicholas Biddle to David Crockett, December 13, 1834, in
President’s Letter Book,
279, Library of Congress.

15
Letter from Crockett to Carey & Hart, December 8, 1834, in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Davis,
Three Roads,
395. Derr,
Frontiersman,
214.

16
Letter from Crockett to Nicholas Biddle, December 16, 1834. Nicholas Biddle Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

17
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
173.

18
Crockett to Carey & Hart, December 21, 1834, Rosenbach Museum and Library.

19
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
174. Crockett to John P. Ash, December 27, 1834, University of the South Archives.

20
Quoted in Derr,
Frontiersman,
219; Letter from Crockett to Carey & Hart, January 8, 1835, Crockett Vertical File, Maryland Historical Society, and Manuscript Department, New-York Historical Society.

21
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
184-86. Crockett to Carey & Hart, January 22, 1835, Rosenbach Museum and Library.

22
Derr,
Frontiersman,
218.

23
Crockett to John P. Ash, December 27, 1834, University of the South.

24
Quoted in Davis,
Three Roads,
397. Crockett to Charles Schultz, December 25, 1834, Gilder-Lehrman Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.

25
Arpad,
Original Legendary,
192-93.

26
Ibid, 192.

27
Davis,
Three Roads,
396.

28
Crockett to John P. Ash, December 27, 1834.

29
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
183.

30
Davis,
Three Roads,
399.

31
Crockett to John P. Ash, December 27, 1834.

32
Adam Huntsman to James Polk, January 1, 1835, quoted in Weaver and Hall,
Correspondence of James K. Polk,
vol. 3, 1835-1836 (Nashville, 1975), 3.

33
Congressional Debates
11: 1,191-92.

34
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
193.

35
Crockett,
Col. Crockett’s Tour,
173.

36
Shackford,
Man and Legend,
196.

37
Davis,
Three Roads,
402. Shackford,
Man and Legend,
196.

38
Folmsbee and Catron, “David Crockett: Congressman,” 75. Shackford,
Man and Legend,
200-2.

39
Derr,
Frontiersman,
221. Shackford,
Man and Legend,
119, 188-89.

40
David Crockett,
The Life of Martin Van Buren
(New York, 1835), 80-81.

41
Davis,
Three Roads,
403-5. Folmsbee and Catron, “David Crockett and West Tennessee,” 23.

42
Davis,
History of Memphis,
151-52.

43
Quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
204.

44
Crockett to Carey and Hart, July 8, 1835, quoted in Shackford,
Man and Legend,
204.

45
Crockett to Carey and Hart, August 11, 1835, Crockett Vertical File, Maryland Historical Society.

46
Shackford 206-9. Davis,
Three Roads,
407. In the end, nothing came of these charges.

47
William Armour to James K. Polk, September 7, 1835, in Weaver and Hall,
Correspondence of James K. Polk,
vol. 3, 286.

48
Joel R. Smith to James K. Polk, August 9, 1835, in ibid, 261.

49
Quoted in Cobia,
Crockett’s Expedition to the Alamo,
24.
Charleston Courier,
August 31, 1835.

Chapter 14: Lone Star on the Horizon

1
Landon Y. Jones,
William Clark and the Shaping of the West
(New York, 2004), 109-12. Derr,
Frontiersman,
229.

2
Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
24.

3
Ibid, 24-25. William C. Davis,
Lone Star Rising
(New York, 2004), 57.

4
Davis,
Lone Star Rising,
89. Derr,
Frontiersman,
229.

5
Stephen L. Hardin,
Texian Iliad
(Austin, 1994), 5.

6
Ibid, 6.

7
Ibid.

8
Ibid. Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
220-21.

9
Brands,
Lone Star Nation,
224.

10
Randy Roberts and James S. Olson,
A Line in the Sand
(New York, 2001), 91.

11
Brazos,
The Life of Robert Hall,
Reprint. (Austin, 1992), 19. Davis,
Three Roads,
408, 692n. Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand,
91.

12
Cooper, “Crockett Firearms,” 67.