PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Dorothy Sloan Collection, Dorothy Sloan Rare Books, Austin, Texas
Emily Priddy Collection, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Joseph A. Swann Collection, Maryville, Tennessee
Ron McCoy Collection, Tulsa, Oklahoma
ARCHIVES, MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES, AND HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
Berkeley County Historical Society, Martinsburg, WV
Birmingham Public Library Cartographic Collection, Department of Geography, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Archives, Buffalo, NY
Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville, TN
Crockett Tavern Museum, Morristown, TN
Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo, San Antonio, TX
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Drexel University Archives, Philadelphia, PA
East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, TN
East Tennessee History Center, Knoxville, TN
Franklin County, TN, Files, Tennessee Historical Commission
Franklin County Historical Society, Winchester, TN
Gilder-Lehrman Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY
Gowen Papers, Gowen Research Foundation, Lubbock, TX
Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Townsend, TN
G. W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Jefferson County Archives, Dandridge, TN
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C.
Mountain Heritage Center and the Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Rosenberg Library, Galveston, TX
San Jacinto Museum, Houston, TX
Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, TN
Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Hoskins Library, Knoxville, TN
University of Texas at Austin, Office of Public Affairs
Van Zandt County Genealogical Society, Canton, TX
Woolaroc Museum, Bartlesville, OK
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Alford, Bobby. History of Lawrence County, Tennessee. Published privately by the author, 1994.
Arnow, Harriette Simpson. Seedtime on the Cumberland. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1983.
Bagnall, Norma Hayes. On Shaky Ground: The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811–1812. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.
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Blair, Walter. David Crockett: Legendary Frontier Hero. Rev. ed. Springfield, IL: Lincoln-Herndon Press, 1986.
Blomquist, Ann K., ed. Cheek’s Cross Roads, Tennessee Store Journal, 1802–1807. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2001.
Botkin, Benjamin A., ed. A Treasury of American Folklore. New York: Crown, 1944.
Bowman, John S., general ed. The World Almanac of the American West. New York: World Almanac/Pharos Books, 1986.
Boyer, Paul S., ed. The Oxford Companion to United States History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Brands, H. W. Lone Star Nation. New York: Anchor Books, 2004.
———. Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times. New York: Anchor Books, 2006.
Brown, Fred. Marking Time: East Tennessee Historical Markers and the Stories Behind Them. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
Brunner, Bernd. Bears: A Brief History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
Burke, James Wakefield. David Crockett: The Man Behind the Myth. Austin: Eakin Press, 1984.
Burstein, Andrew. The Passions of Andrew Jackson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
———. The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving. New York: Basic Books, 2007.
Caldwell, Russell H. Reelfoot Lake Remembered. Union City, TN: Caldwell’s Office Outfitters, 2005.
Campbell, Randolph B. Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Chemerka, William R. The Davy Crockett Almanac and Book of Lists. Austin: Eakin Press, 2000.
Clark, Pat B. The History of Clarksville and Old Red River County. Dallas: Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1937.
Clarke, Matthew St. Clair (probable author). Sketches and Eccentricities of Colonel David Crockett of West Tennessee. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833.
Clayton, Lareine Warden. Stories of Early Inns and Taverns of the East Tennessee Country. Nashville: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Tennessee, 1995.
Clifton, Juanita, as told to Lou Harshaw. Reelfoot and the New Madrid Quake. Asheville, NC: Victor Publishing Company, 1980.
Cobia, Manley F. Jr. Journey into the Land of Trials. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, Providence Publishing Corp., 2003.
Collins, James. Autobiography of a Revolutionary Soldier. John M. Roberts, ed. Clinton, LA: Feliciana Democrat, 1859; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1979.
Corlew, Robert E. Tennessee: A Short History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981.
Corps, Terry. Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006.
Cowan, Samuel K. Sergeant York and His People. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1922.
Crackel, Theodore J., ed. The Papers of George Washington. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007.
Crockett, David. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee. Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1834.
Dameron, J. David. King’s Mountain: The Defeat of the Loyalists, October 7, 1780. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003.
Daniel, Alice. Log Cabins of the Smokies. Gatlinburg, TN: Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association, 2000.
Davis, William C. Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
———. Lone Star Rising: The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic. New York: Free Press, 2004.
———. The Pirates Lafitte: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf. New York: Harcourt, 2005.
Derr, Mark. The Frontiersman: The Real Life and Many Legends of Davy Crockett. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993.
Dobson, David. Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680–1830. Baltimore: Genealogical Printing Company, 2002.
Dorson, Richard M. American Folklore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959.
Dykeman, Wilma. The French Broad. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955.
———. Tennessee, A History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984.
East, Ben. Bears. New York: Crown, 1977.
Ellis, Edward S. The Life of Colonel David Crockett. Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1884.
Family Histories: Franklin County, Tennessee, 1807–1996. Winchester, TN: Franklin County Historical Society, 1996.
Fehrenbach, T. R. Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans. New York: Collier Books, 1980.
Feldman, Jay. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes. New York: Free Press, 2005.
Finger, John R. Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Folmsbee, Stanley J. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee by David Crockett, A Facsimile Edition with an Introduction and Annotations by James A. Shackford and Stanley J. Folmsbee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973.
Foster, Austin P. Counties of Tennessee, A Reference of Historical and Statistical Facts for Each of Tennessee’s Counties. Nashville: Department of Education, State of Tennessee, 1923. Reprinted by The Overmountain Press, 1998.
French, Janie Stewart, and Zella Armstrong. The Crockett Family and Connecting Lines. Bristol, TN: King Printing Co., 1928.
Fulmore, Z. T. The History and Geography of Texas as Told in County Names. Austin: E. L. Steck, 1915.
Garland, Hamlin, ed. The Autobiography of David Crockett. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923.
Geiser, Robert L. The Illusion of Caring. Boston: Beacon Press, 1973.
Gregory, Jack, and Rennard Strickland. Sam Houston with the Cherokees, 1829–1833. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967.
Grime, J. H. Recollections of a Long Life. Lebanon, TN: Self-published, 1930.
Groneman, William, III. Death of a Legend: The Myth and Mystery Surrounding the Death of Davy Crockett. Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press, 1999.
———. David Crockett: Hero of the Common Man. New York: Forge Books, Tom Doherty Associates, 2005.
Guild, Joseph C. Old Times in Tennessee. Nashville: Tavel, Eastman & Howell, 1878.
Haley, James L. Texas: From Frontier to Spindletop. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
———. Sam Houston. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
Hardin, Stephen. Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Harper, Herbert L., ed. Houston and Crockett: Heroes of Tennessee and Texas: An Anthology. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1986.
Hauck, Richard Boyd. Davy Crockett: A Handbook. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
Henderson, William Douglas, and Jimmy W. Claborn. Hamblen County: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company, 1995.
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Hutton, Paul. Introduction. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987; reprinted from the 1834 edition published by E. L. Carey and A. Hart, Philadelphia.
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Jenkins, John H., ed. Papers of the Texas Revolution. Austin: Presidial Press, 1973.
Jiji, Vera M., 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.
Johnson, Michael L. Hunger for the Wild: America’s Obsession with the Untamed West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Jones, Kathryn E. Crockett Cousins. Graham, TX: K. E. Jones, 1984, 2nd printing, rev. ed., 1986.
Jones, Randell. In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 2006.
Kelley, Paul. Historic Fort Loudon. Vonore, TN: Fort Loudon Association, 1958.
Kennedy, Roger G. Rediscovering America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
Kephart, Horace. Our Southern Highlanders. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976.
Kilgore, Dan. How Did Davy Die? College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1978.
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Levy, Buddy. American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of Davy Crockett. New York: Berkley Books, 2005.
Lofaro, Michael A. Davy Crockett: The Man, the Legend, the Legacy. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Lofaro, Michael A., and Joe Cummings, eds. Crockett at Two Hundred: New Perspectives on the Man and the Myth. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Lord, Walter. A Time to Stand. New York: Harper & Row, 1961.
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Mankiller, Wilma, and Michael Wallis. Mankiller: A Chief and Her People. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
McCutcheon, Marc. The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1993.
Mooney, James. Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. From the 19th and 7th Annual Reports, Bureau of American Ethnology. Reprint. Nashville: Elder Booksellers, 1982. Reproduced 1982, originally published by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1891 and 1900.
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Peña, José Enrique de la. With Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution. Translated and edited by Carmen Perry. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1975.
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———. The Battle of New Orleans. New York: Penguin, 1999.
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Department of History and Archives, Montgomery, AL, www.archives.state.al.us/counties/tuscaloo.html.
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Waller, Preston Lynn, PhD. “Celebrities versus Heroes: A Case Study Using Characters from the Alamo Legend and its Cinematic Interpretation.” McLennan Community College, Waco, TX, www.mclennan.edu/faculty/waller/alamo.htm.
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
Carroll County (TN) Deed Book A, 29–30.
Carroll County (TN) Court Minutes, 1821–26, vol. 1, 50.
Court Records of Washington County, Virginia—Minutes. Vol. 1, 39. August 1778.
Department of the Navy. Naval Historical Center, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.
Franklin County, TN, Will Book, 1808–1847. Folder 036 A. Franklin County Courthouse Annex, Winchester, TN.
Frederick County (VA) Court Records. Order Bk. 2, 456.
Greene County (NC) Deed Book. Vol. 3, 320, November 27, 1792, John Crockett from St of NC 197 acres Stogdons Fork, Lick Creek, Grant #1243.
Jefferson County Marriage Records Book 1. Entry Number 526. Jefferson County Courthouse, Dandridge, TN.
Jefferson County Marriage and Bond Book, 1792–1840. Marriage Bond, “David Crockett to Polly Finley,” August 12, 1806. Jefferson County Courthouse, Dandridge, TN.
Surveyors Entry Book C, Surveyors District II, Entry No. 3944, 414. Tennessee State Archives.
Transcript Copies of Circuit Court File 1808–1835. Jefferson County Archives, Jefferson County Courthouse, Dandridge, TN.
UNPUBLISHED WORKS
Caton, J. L. “Davy Crockett and Polly Finley in Jefferson County.” March 1, 1958. Transcription of unpublished memoir of George Cox. Crockett File, Jefferson County Historical Archives, Jefferson County Courthouse, Dandridge, TN.
Johnson, James Strefhan, III. “The Evolution of an American Small Town,” Masters of Science in Architecture thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2004.
Peterson, Gert. A Chronology of the Life of David Crockett. Unpublished manuscript, 2001.
Reilly, Joe, PhD. Presentation to the International Psychohistorical Association, Fordham University, New York, June 7, 2007.
Swann, Joseph A. “The Early Life & Times of David Crockett, 1786–1812.” Unpublished manuscript.
———. “The History of David Crockett’s First Rifle.” Unpublished paper.
———. Presentation to the East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, February 12, 2003.