Davy Crockett. Colonel Davy Crockett, recently defeated in his bid for a fourth term in the Congress of the United States, returned to one of his favorite hunting grounds–the taverns of Memphis–on November 1, 1. He was accompanied by his teenage nephew William Patton, his brother- in- law Abner Burgin and friend Lindsy Tinkle. These companions,’ Crockett had written on October 3. Arkinsaw and I want to explore the Texas well before I return.’By evening a large crowd had attached itself to Crockett, and a grand farewell tour of all of the Bluff City’s finest taverns was proposed.

In the company of old friends and political allies such as Memphis Mayor Marcus Winchester, Gus Young and C. D. Mc. Lean, he made his way from the Union Hotel on Front Street to Hart’s Saloon on Market Street, the crowd growing larger and rowdier along the way. After Crockett had to intercede to prevent a fight between Hart’s bartender and Gus Young over the eternal question of cash or credit on drink purchases, Crockett’s party decided to stagger on to Mc. Cool’s Saloon next door. The happy crowd hoisted Crockett onto their shoulders, depositing him on Neil Mc.

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Cool’s bar counter and demanding a speech.‘My friends,’ the colonel declared, ‘I suppose you all are aware that I was recently a candidate for Congress. I told the voters that if they would elect me I would serve them to the best of my ability; but if they did not, they might go to hell, and I would go to Texas. I am on my way now!’The crowd shouted in delight–that is, all save the fastidious barkeeper, Neil Mc.

Cool. The sight of Crockett in muddy boots atop his freshly oil- clothed counter was too much. In a rage, he lashed out with a club. Crockett had jumped down by then, and Mc. Cool managed only to fall over the counter into the arms of a dozen half- drunken revelers. Amid many oaths he ordered everyone out. Crockett now advocated retiring for the night, for, while he admittedly ‘was in hunt of a fight,’ he said he ‘did not want it on this side of the Mississippi river.’ The crowd would have none of that, and they whisked their hero off to Cooper’s, on Main Street.

Now Cooper only sold his liquor by the barrel or cask, but that proved scant problem for Crockett’s company. It is needless to say we all got tight–I might say, yes, very tight,’ noted one eyewitness. Men who never were tight before, and never have been tight since, were certainly very tight then.’Early the next morning Crockett and his three companions walked their horses down to the ferry landing at the mouth of the Wolf River. His Memphis friends were still with him, and the group attracted the curious.

Young James Davis watched the warm farewells, somewhat in awe of the noted hunter turned politician. He wore that same veritable coon- skin cap and hunting shirt, bearing upon his shoulder his ever faithful rifle,’ Davis recounted. No other equipment, save his shot- pouch and powder- horn, do I remember seeing.’ Crockett stepped onto the ferry- flat, and the elderly black ferryman, Limus, cast off and pushed away from the shore. Limus worked his snatch oars as the little flatboat floated lazily down the Wolf, into the Mississippi and toward the distant shore.

Despite the frivolity of his Memphis farewell, Crockett was a deeply troubled man. He had turned 4. 9 in August, the same month of his electoral defeat. He might well have been one of the most celebrated men in America, but he was barely better off financially than when he had won his first electoral bid as militia colonel in 1. He had always been restless, but now a new and uncharacteristic bitterness marked his temper as he cast about for new opportunities by which to rebuild his shattered fortunes. Texas was on every American tongue by 1. American settlers there were growing increasingly restless under Mexican rule that was at best incompetent and at worst despotic.

Once the Mexican shackles were discarded, there would be plenty of free land for those bold enough to take it. Land, and the quest for it, had dominated much of Crockett’s life. His early efforts at pioneer farming had all failed miserably, and he was quick to confess that by 1. He had, however, proved adept as a hunter, especially of bears, killing 1. In 1. 81. 3 he had followed Andrew Jackson’s call for volunteers to fight the Creek Indians and seen some hard campaigning in Alabama and Florida. Although he proved an able soldier, rising to the rank of militia sergeant, he cared little for the increasingly one- sided conflict with the Indians or for the rules of martial life. I like life now a heap better than I did then,’ he later remarked of his military career, ‘and I am glad all over that I lived to see these times, which I should not have done if I had kept fooling around in war, and got used up.’Soon after the war ended, Crockett’s first wife, Polly, died, leaving him with three small children to care for.

In 1. 81. 6 he married Elizabeth Patton, a young widow with two children of her own, whose husband had been killed in the war with the Creeks. They soon moved their family westward to Shoal Creek in Lawrence County, Tenn. Crockett took an active role in the formation of a new government in this wilderness country, first serving as magistrate, then as justice of the peace, and finally as town commissioner. In 1. 81. 8 his neighbors elected him colonel of the 5. Militia Regiment and three years later sent him as their representative to the state Legislature. There, he won good marks for his strong defense of squatters’ rights to the lands they had pioneered in the western country, and he soon came to be friends with leading Tennessee politicians such as Sam Houston and James K. Polk. Intelligent and affable, he was endowed with a considerable measure of common sense and an uncommon streak of pure honesty that made him a natural for the rough- and- tumble world of backwoods electioneering.

In 1. 82. 7, having moved his family to the Obion River country of northwestern Tennessee, he was urged to run for the U. S. Congress by the mayor of Memphis, Marcus Winchester. Crockett, like Winchester, Polk and Houston, was strongly identified with Andrew Jackson–who would be elected president in 1.

Age of the Common Man. Crockett’s election to Congress represented to many the rise of frontier democracy and a complete rejection of Eastern notions of social class. He was an instant celebrity in Washington, hailed by many as the ‘canebrake congressman’ and condemned by the anti- Jackson press as an ignorant country bumpkin devoid of any semblance of refinement. The more he was pilloried by the Eastern establishment, the more beloved he became everywhere else in the country. By 1. 83. 1, after he had won re- election to a second term, even his critics were coming around, especially after he made it clear that he was not to be bound by any party solidarity and would instead vote his conscience at all costs.

Noted the Norristown Free Press in June 1. He was elected to the house of Assembly where he attracted the general gaze by his grotesque appearance, his rough manners, and jovial habits, at the same time that he exhibited uncommon indications of a strong though undisciplined mind. He became, indeed, the object of universal notoriety–and to return from the capital without having seen Colonel Crockett, betrayed a total destitution of curiosity, and a perfect insensibility to the ‘lions’ of the West.’The Lion of the West, a play written by future Secretary of the Navy James Kirke Paulding, premiered in New York in April 1. Crockett’s fame. Noted Shakespearean actor James Hackett’s portrayal of the blustering, uncouth, but razor- sharp Colonel Nimrod Wildfire was recognized everywhere as a caricature of the Tennessee congressman. Crockett had a reserved box seat when The Lion of the West returned from a triumphal London engagement to play Washington in 1.

When the buckskin- clad Hackett, wearing a wildcat- skin fur cap, strode onto the stage, he promptly bowed to Crockett.