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7 Ibid., 18. Foster, Counties of Tennessee, 82. Murfreesboro remained the state capital until 1826, when the capital moved yet again to Nashville, thirty-five miles to the north.
8 Alford, History of Lawrence County, Tennessee, 28–29. On September 20, 1823, a petition containing the names of 220 citizens of Lawrence County was sent to the state legislature stating that the chosen location for Lawrenceburg was suitable.
9 Ibid., 28.
10 Crockett, Narrative, 133.
11 Ibid., 133–34.
12 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 38.
13 Crockett, Narrative, 135. By the early 1820s, when Crockett held state and federal elective office, he had read some law. A law book that Crockett reportedly gave a friend in 1828 ended up on display at the Alamo.
14 Alford, History of Lawrence County, Tennessee, 24.
15 Crockett, Narrative, 137.
16 Alford, History of Lawrence County, Tennessee, 25.
17 Crockett, Narrative, 138.
18 Ibid.
19 Jones, Crockett Cousins, 23.
TWENTY-TWO • GENTLEMAN FROM THE CANE
1 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 41.
2 Joseph C. Guild, Old Times in Tennessee (Nashville: Tavel, Eastman & Howell, 1878), 322–24. Judge Jo Guild, as he was best known, was a Crockett contemporary, a veteran of the Seminole War, and a well-known Tennessee lawyer.
3 Ibid., 138–45. Irvine’s commission was dated February 17, 1820.
4 Alford, History of Lawrence County, Tennessee, 31.
5 Crockett, Narrative, 144.
6 Levy, American Legend, 87.
7 MemphisHistory.com, www.memphishistory.org/Beginnings/FoundersandPioneers/JohnCMclemore/tabid/112/Default.aspx. One of the founders of Memphis, McLemore was touted as a potential gubernatorial or senatorial candidate, but he never ran for office. He lost much of his wealth when the LaGrange and Memphis Rail Road failed and the financial panic in 1837 further reduced his holdings. In an effort to accumulate another fortune, he joined the California gold rush in 1849. He remained in California twelve years, returning to Memphis before his death in 1864.
8 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 43.
9 Crockett, Narrative, 138.
10 Davis, Three Roads to the Alamo, 70.
11 Crockett, Narrative, 140.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid., 141–42.
14 Jones, Crockett Cousins, 24. Matilda, Crockett’s youngest child, would live longer than any of her siblings. She survived three husbands and died in Gibson County, TN, on July 6, 1890, a month before her sixty-ninth birthday.
15 Crockett, Narrative, 143.
16 Ibid. In his autobiography, Crockett wrote that when they met, Polk was a member of the state legislature. Crockett was confused. Polk was still clerk of the state senate and would not become a legislator until the next term. Beginning in 1825, Polk was elected to his seven terms in the U.S. Congress; thus he was a fellow representative of Crockett’s during all of Crockett’s state legislative and congressional years.
17 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 47.
18 Ibid., 52.
19 Levy, American Legend, 95–96.
TWENTY-THREE • LAND OF THE SHAKES
1 Crockett, Narrative, 144.
2 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 50.
3 Levy, American Legend, 97.
4 Edward S. Ellis, The Life of Colonel David Crockett, reprinted from the 1884 edition (Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 1984), 58–59.
5 Ibid., 145.
6 Ibid.
7 Crockett, Narrative, 144–45.
8 Guy S. Miles, “David Crockett Evolves, 1821–1824,” American Quarterly 8, no. 1 (Spring 1956): 53. In a footnote in his seven-page essay, Miles, described as “a Tennessee hunter and Professor of English at Morehead State College,” praised the soon to be published work of Professor James Atkins Shackford, noting that “it is badly needed as a corrective to too much surmising on the key figure.” The University of North Carolina Press published Shackford’s work, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, later that year.
9 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man