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6 Ibid., 166.
7 Ibid., 167.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid., 168.
11 Ibid., 159, 168. Crockett biographer James A. Shackford claimed that Crockett’s eldest son, John Wesley Crockett, did not consider Chapman’s portrait to be the best likeness of his father. Chapman, in his nine-page handwritten reminiscence of Crockett and the portrait, states, “From its beginning to completion, Colonel Crockett’s interest in the execution of the picture never abated, and it received his unqualified approval in every aspect.”
12 Ibid., 171–72.
13 Ibid., 172.
14 Ibid., 173.
15 Ibid., 171.
16 John Wesley Crockett (1807–1852) studied law, was admitted to the bar, and established a law practice in Paris, TN. He held numerous local and state offices before being elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses, serving the same district his famous father had represented earlier. John Wesley served in Congress from 1837 to 1841 and was next elected to be the attorney general for the ninth district of Tennessee, and served from 1841 to 1843. In 1843 he moved to New Orleans and became a commission merchant as well as a newspaper editor. He returned to Tennessee in 1852 and died there that same year. He was buried in Paris, TN.
17 Davis, “A Legend at Full-Length,” 171.
18 Ibid., 173.
19 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 164.
20 Ibid., 163, 166.
21 Ibid., 167.
22 Ibid., 167–68; 309, n. 19. James C. Kelly and Frederick S. Voss, Davy Crockett: Gentleman from the Cane, An Exhibition Commemorating Crockett’s Life and Legend on the 200th Anniversary of His Birth, Published by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, City of Washington, and the Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, 1986, 28–29.
23 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 309, n. 19.
24 Jones, In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett, 181.
25 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 169.
26 Ibid., 170.
27 Levy, American Legend, 216.
28 Adam R. Huntsman Biographic Sketch, Adam Huntsman Papers, 1835–1848, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN. The collection is made up almost entirely of correspondence written by Huntsman to his friends and political allies. Most of the letters were written to James K. Polk, then governor of Tennessee. In these letters Huntsman has written entirely of politics, the progress of his party, and the campaigns of the candidates. Many of the letters refer to Crockett, defeated by Huntsman in 1835. The majority of the letters were written from Jackson, TN, where Huntsman resided.
29 Adams Sentinel 9, no. 6 (November 26, 1834).
30 Crockett letter to Charles Schultz, December 25, 1834, Gilder-Lehrman Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
31 Jones, In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett, 178.
32 Ibid., 178–79. Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 119.
33 Jones, In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett, 201.
34 Davis, Three Roads to the Alamo, 399.
35 Levy, American Legend, 227.
36 Crockett letter to Carey and Hart, August 11, 1835, Crocket Vertical File, Maryland Historical Society.
37 Charleston Courier, August 31, 1835.
38 National Gazette and Literary Register, Philadelphia, PA, December 29, 1825. “There are now four vacancies in the senate of Missouri; that the legislature convenes in January next, and the acting Governor has failed to issue writs of election…. Col. McGuire has resigned, Mr. Carr has removed from the State, Mr. Brown is at Santa Fe, in the service of the General Government, and Col. Palmer is said to have taken French leave and gone to Texas.” The term French leave is used to describe someone who evades creditors.
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1 Shackford, David Crockett: The Man and the Legend, 210.
2 Davis, Three Roads to the Alamo, 408.
3 Jones, In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett, 187.
4 Quintard Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), 54.
5 Ibid., 39.
6 Stephen F. Austin correspondence to Edward Lovelace (or Josiah Bell), City of Mexico, November 22, 1822. Correspondence Regarding