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9 President Andrew Jackson’s Case for the Removal Act, First Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1830.
10 Ibid.
11 Based on the author’s personal observations and associations with many members of the Cherokee Nation, including several principal chiefs, as well as tribal activists and scholars of Cherokee cultural history. Besides completely shunning twenty-dollar bills, some Oklahoma Indians have been known to ink large X’s across Jackson’s face.
12 Martin Luther King Jr. also has been suggested as a replacement for Jackson on the twenty-dollar bill.
13 Levy, American Legend, 168.
14 Crockett, Narrative, 205–6.
15 Swann, “Early Life & Times.”
16 Walter Blair, David Crockett: Legendary Frontier Hero (Springfield, IL: Lincoln-Herndon Press, 1955, rev. ed. 1986), 181–87. From Speeches on the Passage of the Bill for the Removal of the Indians, Delivered in the Congress of the United States, April and May, 1830 (Boston: Perkins and Marvin, 1830; New York: Jonathan Leavitt, 1830).
17 Ibid.
18 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 116–17, 129. Levy, American Legend, 174–75.
19 Crockett, Narrative, 206–7.
20 Levy, American Legend, 173.
21 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 112.
22 Davis, Three Roads to the Alamo, 181–82.
23 Ibid., 207–8.
24 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 132.
25 Davis, Three Roads to the Alamo, 186.
26 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 133.
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1 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. George Lawrence, ed. J. P. Mayer (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), 485.
2 Ibid., 200.
3 Alexis de Tocqueville, Journal Entry, Memphis, Tennessee, December 20, 1831, 267, www.tocqueville.org/tn.hmm.
4 Jones, Crockett Cousins, 23. William Finley Crockett wed Clorinda Boyett on March 18, 1830, and Margaret Finley Crockett wed Wiley Flowers on March 22, 1830. Both weddings took place in Gibson County, TN.
5 Smith, Land Holdings, 42–43. Some authors, including Shackford, have confused the two George Pattons. The George Patton who purchased Crockett’s 25-acre tract in 1831 was his stepson and not his brother-in-law, the other George Patton, who resided in Buncombe County, North Carolina.
6 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 136.
7 Ibid., 133.
8 Davis, Three Roads to the Alamo, 310.
9 Jones, Crockett Cousins, 45.
10 Smith, Land Holdings, 44.
11 Ibid.
12 William Shakespeare, As You Like It, The New Folger Library of Shakespeare (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), act 5, scene 1.
13 M. J. Heale, “The Role of the Frontier in Jacksonian Politics: David Crockett and the Myth of the Self-Made Man,” Western History Quarterly 4 (October 1973): 406.
14 Levy, American Legend, 182.
15 Vera M. Jiji, ed., A Sourcebook of Interdisciplinary Materials in American Drama: J. K. Paulding, The Lion of the West (Brooklyn: Produced by the Program for Culture at Play: Multimedia Studies in American Drama, Humanities Institute, Brooklyn College, 1983), 10–11. The review appeared in the Morning Courier and New York Enquirer, April 27, 1831.
16 Andrew Burstein, The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving (New York: Basic Books, 2007), 10–11. In 1793, when Washington Irving was ten years old, his brother William married Julia Paulding, the older sister of James Kirke Paulding. According to Burstein, Paulding is noteworthy for being the first outside the Irving clan to be considered a confidant, and, as important, the one who introduced Washington Irving to Sleepy Hollow.
17 Ibid., 246. Others belonged to the Knickerbockers, but the five listed were the most remarkable.
18 Davis, Three Roads to the Alamo, 171–72. John Wesley Jarvis was born in England and was the nephew of John Wesley, founder of Methodism. Jarvis painted the portraits of many well-known American figures, including Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and James Fenimore Cooper. He was known for his flamboyant dress and manner during his prime years, but his work declined and he died in poverty