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8 Ibid. The famed Natural Bridge formed an arch that was sacred to Indian tribes and one of the wonders of the new world for European visitors during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
9 Crockett, Narrative, 23.
10 Ibid., 23–24.
11 Ibid., 24.
12 Ibid., 24–25.
13 Ibid., 25–26.
14 Ibid., 29.
15 Ibid., 29–30.
16 Ibid., 30.
17 Ibid., 32.
18 Ann K. Blomquist, ed., Cheek’s Cross Roads, Tennessee Store Journal, 1802–1807 (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2001), ix.
EIGHT • THE ODYSSEY
1 Swann, “Early Life & Times.”
2 Extracted from files of the Berkeley County Historical Society, Martinsburg, West Virginia.
3 Crockett, Narrative, 32.
4 Ibid., 33.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid., 34.
7 Ibid., 35.
8 Ibid. Perhaps the horses pulling the wagon did see a ghost, as Crockett humorously suggested. Elliott City, MD, formerly named Elliott’s Mill, has been called the most haunted small town in the state and one of the most haunted spots on the eastern seaboard.
9 Ibid., 36–37.
10 Ibid., 37.
11 Ibid., 38.
12 Ibid., 39.
13 Ibid., 39–40.
14 James Strefhan Johnson III, “The Evolution of an American Small Town,” master’s thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2004, 18. A warrant was issued for Boone’s arrest, but by then he had moved on. To this day the document is intact at the courthouse.
15 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 10.
16 Ibid.
17 Crockett, Narrative, 40.
18 Ibid., 40–41.
19 Ibid., 41.
20 Ibid., 42.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid., 42–43.
NINE • RISE ABOVE
1 Swann, “Early Life & Times.”
2 Lareine Warden Clayton, Stories of Early Inns and Taverns of the East Tennessee Country (Nashville: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Tennessee, 1995), 85. The costliest spirit at the time was wine, at ten cents for a half pint, the same price as a full dinner.
3 Crockett, Narrative, 45.
4 Ibid.
5 Swann, “Early Life & Times.”
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 John and Margaret Thornbrough Canaday Family, www.freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mygerman. In later years, Lost Creek Meeting became a station on the Underground Railroad, helping runaway slaves find freedom.
9 Swann, “Early Life & Times.”
10 Ibid.
11 Crockett, Narrative, 46.
12 Ibid., 46–47.
13 Ibid., 47.
14 Swann, “Early Life & Times.”
15 Ibid.
16 Bent Creek Baptists Church Minutes, Saturday, February 4, 1803. The baptism took place on Samuel Riggs’s property.
TEN • LOVESICK
1 Crockett, Narrative, 47.
2 Swann, “Early Life & Times.”
3 Crockett, Narrative, 47–48.
4 Ibid., 48.
5 Ibid., 48–49.
6 Ibid., 49.
7 Ibid.
8 Crockett and Thomas Chilton, a friend and colleague in the U.S. Congress, read Ovid’s classic work as they prepared to write the Crockett autobiography.
9 Ibid. Records show that the Elders lived along Lick Creek, in Greene County, at the same time as David and his family.
10. Swann, “Early Life & Times,” quoting an 1893 article by Alexander Hynds in the Louisville Courier Journal.
11 Crockett, Narrative, 50.
12 Randell Jones, In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett (Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 2006), 21–22.
13 Jefferson County Marriage Records Book 1, Entry Number 526, Jefferson County Courthouse, Dandridge, TN. The Crockett-Elder license at the Jefferson County courthouse is a copy. The original document was mistakenly discarded during a housecleaning of the archives, and eventually ended up in the possession of a private party in Tampa, FL. When it surfaced at a broadcast of Antiques Roadshow, an appraiser from Christie’s in New York said the document’s historical significance was immeasurable.
14 Crockett, Narrative, 53.
15 Ibid., 53–54.
16 Ibid., 54.
ELEVEN • POLLY
1 Crockett, Narrative, 54.
2 Ibid., 55.
3 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 13.
4 Crockett, Narrative, 57. In Crockett’s day virtually all people of German extraction were simply described as Dutch, as in Pennsylvania Dutch.
5 Crockett, Narrative,