David Crockett_ The Lion of the West - Michael Wallis [1]
David Crockett’s 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)
Crockett’s 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, 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)
Portrait of Crockett on stone by Samuel Stillman Osgood, circa 1834. (Photograph by Dorothy Sloan, Dorothy Sloan Rare Books)
Congressional credentials issued to David Crockett. (National Archives and Records Administration)
Page 576 of a 1774 edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Crockett’s 1832 signature. (Special Collections Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Engraving by artist Asher B. Durand based on an 1834 watercolor portrait of Crockett on paper, painted by Anthony Lewis De Rose. (Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation)
Lithograph depicting President Jackson seated on a collapsing chair, with the “Altar of Reform” toppling next to him, 1831. The scurrying rats are (left to right): Secretary of War John H. Eaton, Secretary of the Navy John Branch, Secretary of State Martin Van Buren, and Secretary of the Treasury Samuel D. Ingham. (Lithograph by Edward W. Clay)
U.S. President James Knox Polk, a fellow Tennesseean and political adversary of Crockett. Daguerrotype by Mathew B. Brady, February 14, 1849. (Mathew B. Brady, photographer)
Map of the Mexican state of Texas, 1835, compiled by Stephen F. Austin. (James P. Bryant Collection, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin)
William Barret Travis, the ambitious and quick-tempered Alamo commander. (Courtesy