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10 Jonathan K. T. Smith, The Land Holdings of Colonel David Crockett in West Tennessee (Jackson, TN: Mid-West Tennessee Genealogical Society, 2003), 11.
11 Ibid.
12 Crockett, Narrative, 147.
13 “A Sportsmen’s Paradise,” New York Times, January 11, 1891.
14 Ibid.
15 Crockett, Narrative, 148.
16 Ibid., 149–50.
17 Ibid., 151.
18 Ibid., 152–53.
19 Ibid., 154.
20 Smith, Land Holdings, 12.
TWENTY-FOUR • IN THE EYE OF A “HARRICANE”
1 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 56.
2 Ibid. Mansil Crisp was born in North Carolina in 1764 and lived in South Carolina from the 1790s to the early 1800s, when he moved to Tennessee. He died in 1850.
3 Jones, In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett, 34.
4 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 57–58.
5 Herbert L. Harper, ed., Houston and Crockett: Heroes of Tennessee and Texas: An Anthology (Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1986), 147.
6 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 58. Crockett quotes from the Nashville Whig, August 14, 1822.
7 John Patton Erwin, a native of North Carolina and member of the Whig Party, served as mayor of Nashville in 1821–1822 and again in 1834–1835.
8 Carroll County (TN) Deed Book A, 29–30.
9 Crockett, Narrative, 155.
10 Foster, Counties of Tennessee, 102.
11 Carroll County (TN) Court Minutes, 1821–1826, vol. 1, 20.
12 First Families Old Buncombe (FFOB), Patton Family records, www.obcgs.com/patton.htm.
13 Jones, Crockett Cousins, 45.
14 Hauck, Davy Crockett: A Handbook, 34–35.
15 Crockett, Narrative, 155.
16 Ibid., 155–56.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid., 161.
20 Crockett, Narrative, 162–63.
21 Ibid., 163–64.
22 Ibid., 164–65.
TWENTY-FIVE • A FOOL FOR LUCK
1 Foster, Counties of Tennessee, 115–16. Madison County was created on November 7, 1821, from the Western District, and the first courthouse was completed in Jackson in September 1822.
2 Crockett, Narrative, 166.
3 Ibid., 166–67.
4 Ibid., 167.
5 Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 63, 160. William Butler married Martha Hays, the daughter of Rachel Jackson’s sister.
6 Crockett, Narrative, 167–68.
7 Ibid., 167.
8 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 64.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid., 66.
11 Ibid.
12 Jones, In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett, 34–36.
13 Ibid., 35–36.
14 Hauck, Davy Crockett: A Handbook, 38.
15 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 67.
16 Crockett, Narrative, 171.
17 Levy, American Legend, 120.
18 National Banner and Nashville Whig, September 27, 1824.
19 Crockett, Narrative, 172.
20 Ibid., 173.
21 Levy, American Legend, 124.
TWENTY-SIX • BIG TIME
1 Jones, In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett, 37.
2 Gert Petersen, A Chronology of the Life of David Crockett, unpublished, 2001, 25.
3 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 74.
4 Ibid.
5 Crockett, Narrative, 174.
6 Crockett, Narrative, 195.
7 Ibid., 196.
8 Ibid., 198–99.
9 Petersen, Chronology, 26.
10 History of Shelby County, Tennessee (Nashville: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886–1887), 865–67.
11 Ibid.
12 Michael Lollar, “First Memphis Mayor Receives a Grave Injustice,” Memphis Commercial Appeal, commercialappeal.com, May 26, 2009.
13 Ibid. Amarante Winchester was ostracized by Memphis society, and Winchester’s career declined. Eventually city aldermen passed an ordinance forbidding anyone of mixed race from owning property or living within the city limits. This caused the Winchesters to move to a farm outside of Memphis. They remained married until her death in 1840. Two years later, Winchester married a nineteen-year-old widow. Later he was elected to the state legislature. He died in 1856.
14 Levy, American Legend, 132.
15 Ibid., 133.
TWENTY-SEVEN • “THE VICTORY IS OURS”
1 Jones, In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett, 78.
2 Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), 414–15.
3 Ibid., 415.
4 Jackson Gazette, Jackson, TN, Circular Letter “To the Republican Voters of the 9th Congressional