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5 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 148.
6 Crockett, Narrative, 172.
7 Joseph A. Swann, Presentation to the East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, February 12, 2003.
8 Joe Reilly, PhD, Presentation to the International Psychohistorical Association, Fordham University, New York, June 7, 2007.
9 Aaron D. Purcell and Michael A. Lofaro, “The Davy Crockett Experience, Now Online! Part I: Born on a Mountain, Bought on EBay,” University of Tennessee, The Library Development Review, 2002–2003, 6.
10 Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Dublin: J. Exshaw, 1774), in fifteen books: with the notes of John Minellius, and others, in English.
11 From Aaron Purcell e-mail to the author, March 27, 2009. Aaron D. Purcell, PhD, currently serves as director of Special Collections and associate professor at the University Libraries at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Michael A. Lofaro, PhD, professor of American studies and American literature, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
12 Purcell and Lofaro, “The Davy Crockett Experience, Now Online!” 7.
13 Michael A. Lofaro, “Part II: Davy And Ovid?” Library Development Review (University of Tennessee), 2002–2003, 7.
14 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 265.
15 Ibid., 265–66.
16 Ibid., 266.
17 Ibid., 267–68.
18 Davis, Three Roads to the Alamo, 331.
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1 Michel de Montaigne, “Of Age,” Essays of Michel de Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew Hazlitt, 1877, www.fullbooks.com/The-Essays-of-Montaigne-VB.html.
2 James L. Haley, Sam Houston (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), 50–52. Houston had just turned forty-six when he wed the teenaged Eliza Allen at her family’s home, Allenwood, on January 22, 1829. The marriage was doomed before it started. Apparently the young woman had never loved Houston. She loved a suitor her family disapproved of, and it was for this reason that they insisted she marry Houston.
3 Jack Gregory and Rennard Strickland, Sam Houston with the Cherokees, 1829–1833 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967), 36, 44–45. Diana Rogers was the daughter of Captain John “Hell-Fire-Jack” Rogers, a wealthy Scottish trader who had been a Tory captain in the American Revolution, had fought at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and later directed the Cherokee emigration to Arkansas. Diana’s uncles were Chief John Jolly and Chief Tallantusky. Her brothers operated profitable trading establishments and saltworks, and her sisters married wealthy Cherokee merchants. She was related to Sequoyah, whose alphabet had made him one of the most important figures in the Cherokee Nation.
4 Ibid., 44–46.
5 Haley, Sam Houston, 74–75.
6 Ibid., 81.
7 Bill Porterfield, “Sam Houston, Warts and All,” Texas Monthly, July 1973, www.texasmonthly.com/1873-07-01/feature6.php.
8 Haley, Sam Houston, 82.
9 Ibid., 84. Booth was born in England in 1796 and named for Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the main assassins of Julius Caesar. Booth was the father of John Wilkes, Edwin, and Brutus Booth Jr. He enjoyed a thirty-year acting career that brought him critical acclaim throughout the nation. In his later years, Booth suffered from a combination of acute alcoholism and insanity. His health steadily declined, and he became known as “Crazy Booth, the mad tragedian.” In 1852, following a tour of California, performing with sons Edwin and Junius Brutus Jr., the elder Booth drank impure river water while on a steamboat and died after enduring five days of fever.
10 Ibid., 85.
11 From Catalogue of the Centennial Exhibition Commemorating the Founding of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union, 1853–1953, Mount Vernon, VA: 1953. In her later years, Madame Le Vert worked tirelessly on behalf of the “Save Mount Vernon” movement. She also authored Souvenirs of Travel, a record of her two journeys