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Bean, Rosamond
Bean, Russell
Bean, William
Bean’s Creek
Rattlesnake Spring Branch of
Becknell, William
Bent Creek Baptist Church
Benton, Jesse
Benton, Thomas Hart
Berryville, Va.
Bible
Biddle, Nicholas
Big Buffalo River
Big Limestone Creek
black bears
diet of
hibernation of
hunting of
male
mating of
products from
Blackburn, James
Black Creek
Black Warrior River
Black Warriors’ Path
Bland, Joy
Blout, William
Blue, Uriah
Blue Ridge Mountains
Boatland, Tenn.
Boiling Fork
Bolivar, Tenn.
Book of Chronicles, The (Huntsman)
Boone, Daniel
Boone, Rebecca
Boon’s Creek
Booth, Edwin
Booth, John Wilkes
Booth, Junius Brutus
Boston, Mass.
Bowie, James
Bowie, Rezin
Bradford, Henry
Bradshaw, William
Brands, H. W.
Brazos River
British Army
British Parliament
Brown, Jesse
Brown, Mr.
Brown’s Indian Queen Hotel
Brownsville, Tenn.
Brulgrudery, Dennis
Bryan, Morgan
Bryant, William Cullen
Buchanan, Maximilian H.
Burgin, Abner
Burgin, Margaret Patton
Burgin, Rebecca Ann
Burns, Robert
Burnt Corn, Battle of
Butler, William Edward
Cahaba River
Caldwell, James
Calhoun, John C.
Calloway, Richard
Camden, N.J.
Camp Blout
Camp Creek
camp meetings
Camp Strother
Canada
Canaday, John
as DC’s mentor and friend
Canaday, Margaret Thornbrough
Canaday, Robert
Cane River
Cannon, Newton
Carey, E. L.
Carey & Hart
Carroll, William
Carson, Sam
Carson’s Branch
Carter, John
Carter’s Valley
Castrillón, Manuel Fernández
Caswell, Richard
Catawba River
Cedar Creek
Chapman, Helen
Chapman, John Gadsby
Charleston Courier,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cheek, Jesse
Cheeks Crossroads, Tenn.
Cherokee Indians
British alliance with
DC’s support of
encroachment on lands of
Sam Houston and
white settlements attacked by
Cherokee Nation
Chesapeake Bay
Chester Gap
Chickamauga Indians
Chickasaw Nation
encroachment on lands of
childbirth complications
Chilton, Thomas
collaboration on Crockett’s autobiography by
congressional career of
Choctaw Bayou
Choctaw Indians
land ceded to Jackson by
cholera
Christian, William
Christianburg, Va.
Cincinnati, Ohio
civil rights movement
Civil War, U.S.
Clark, Isabella Hadden Hopkins Hanks
Clark, James (congressman)
Clark, James (settler)
Clark, Pat
Clark, William
Clarke, Matthew St. Clair
Clarksville, Tex.
Clay, Henry
Clayton, Augustin Smith
Clemens, Samuel, see Twain, Mark
Clinch River
Cocke, John
Coffee, John
cold war
Colliers Crossroads
Collins, James
Comanche Indians
Comet Almanack for 1836,
Conecuh River
Confederacy of Southern States
Congress, U.S.
“War Hawks” in
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Connecticut
coonskin caps
Cooper, James Fennimore
Coosa River
Corzine, Shelby
Coupar Angus
Cove Creek
Cowan, John
Cowpens, Battle of
Creek Indians
British alliance with
“Friendly” vs. “Red Stick,”
Jackson’s treaty with
Creek Indian War
battles of
DC in
food and supply shortages
Crisp, Mansil
Crockett, Aaron (brother)
Crockett, Alexander (uncle)
Crockett, Catherine (niece)
Crockett, Clorinda Boyett
Crockett, David
allegiance to provisional government of Texas sworn by
ambition of
anger of
birth of
boat-making skills of
boosting of public image by
boyhood and adolescence of
boyhood indentured servitude of
buckskin clothing and coonskin cap of
business ventures of
cabins built by
campaigning of
celebrated failures and mishaps of
as characteristically American
Colonel title earned by
commercialization of
death of
drinking of
early married life of
eccentricities of
1834 autobiography of, see Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee, A
fame of
farming of
final letter of
financial difficulties and debts of
as folk hero
folksy, expansive personality of
frequent moves of
generosity of
as “gentleman from the cane,”
“Go ahead” motto of
“hell or Texas” phrase of
homespun humor of
honesty and fairness