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3 Crockett, Narrative, 71–72.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid., 73.
6 Petersen, David Crockett, The Volunteer Rifleman, 14.
7 Ibid.
8 From “Regimental Histories of Tennessee Military Units During the War of 1812,” prepared by Tom Kanon, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
9 Family Histories: Franklin County Tennessee, 1807–1996 (Winchester, TN: Franklin County Historical Society, 1996), 14.
10 Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 191.
11 Webb, Born Fighting, 188.
12 Brands, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times, 188–90.
13 Ibid., 196.
14 Crockett, Narrative, 75.
15 Ibid.
16 Crockett, Narrative, 82.
17 James Parton, The Life of Andrew Jackson, in Three Volumes (New York: Mason Brothers, 1860), vol. 1, 427–29. The journalist James Parton wrote this book less than fifteen years after Andrew Jackson’s death. It is considered the first scholarly biography of the seventh president, although Parton said that even after years of study, instead of discovering the real Jackson, he found only an enigma.
18 Crockett, Narrative, 85–86.
19 Petersen, David Crockett, The Volunteer Rifleman, 18.
20 Ibid., 19.
SIXTEEN • RIDING WITH SHARP KNIFE
1 Petersen, David Crockett, The Volunteer Rifleman, 20.
2 House of Strother Newsletter, February 1991, vol. 3, no. 1, 10.
3 Petersen, David Crockett, The Volunteer Rifleman, 20.
4 Benson John Lossing, The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868), 764.
5 Petersen, David Crockett, The Volunteer Rifleman, 20.
6 Crockett, Narrative, 92.
7 Ibid., 92–93.
8 Ibid., 93.
9 Andrew Burstein, The Passions of Andrew Jackson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), 93.
10 Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 227, 383–84.
11 Petersen, David Crockett, The Volunteer Rifleman, 22.
12 Lossing, Pictorial Field-Book, 766. According to Lossing, Jackson shared in his soldier’s privations and also ate acorns to sustain life.
13 Crockett, Narrative, 93.
14 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 27.
15 Brands, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times, 212.
16 Petersen, David Crockett, The Volunteer Rifleman, 24.
SEVENTEEN • “ROOT HOG OR DIE”
1 A. J. Langguth, Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 284.
2 Ibid., 284–85.
3 Ibid., 285.
4 Finger, Tennessee Frontiers, 234.
5 Ibid.
6 Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 216–17.
7 Ibid., 217.
8 Petersen, David Crockett, The Volunteer Rifleman, 32.
9 Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of the American Empire, 219.
10 Ibid., 226.
11 Ibid., 231.
12 Finger, Tennessee Frontiers, 235.
13 Ibid.
14 Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 21.
15 Ibid., 232–33.
16 Crockett, Narrative, 101.
17 Ibid.
18 Petersen, 33.
19 Ibid.
20 Crockett, Narrative, 102.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid., 103.
23 Petersen, David Crockett, The Volunteer Rifleman, 35, 37.
24 Crockett, Narrative, 106.
25 Ibid., 107.
26 Ibid., 109–10.
27 Ibid., 115.
28 Several sources and dictionaries credit Crockett with having introduced this idiomatic expression in his published autobiography in 1834. It was used in many parts of the country well prior to that date.
29 Crockett, Narrative, 120.
30 Ibid., 122.
EIGHTEEN • CABIN FEVER
1 Crockett, Narrative, 123.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid., 123–24.
4 Petersen, David Crockett, The Volunteer Rifleman, 43.
5 Crockett, Narrative, 124–25.
6 Walter J. Daly, M.D., “The ‘Slows,’ The Torment of Milk Sickness on the Midwest Frontier,” Indiana Magazine of History 102 (March 2006): 29.
7 Ibid., 30–31.
8 Ibid., 34. One of the most characteristic symptoms of the sickness was an offensive odor to the patient’s breath, often so strong that it could be detected on entering a frontier cabin.
9 Crockett, Narrative, 125.
10 Ibid., 125–26.
11 Jones, Crockett Cousins, 24.
12 Crockett, Narrative, 126.
13 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 34.
14 Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society, Old Buncombe County Heritage