Excerpt: ...me, it was entirely forgotten to make my mate; that I was born odd, and should always remain so." He, however, recovered, and paid his addresses to a little girl of the neighborhood, whom he met one day when he had got lost in the woods, and married her. She had for her marriage portion two cows and two calves; and, with fifteen dollars' worth of furniture, they commenced house-keeping. He rented a small farm, and Pg 159 went to work. After a few years, he removed to another part of the state, where there was ...
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Excerpt: ...me, it was entirely forgotten to make my mate; that I was born odd, and should always remain so." He, however, recovered, and paid his addresses to a little girl of the neighborhood, whom he met one day when he had got lost in the woods, and married her. She had for her marriage portion two cows and two calves; and, with fifteen dollars' worth of furniture, they commenced house-keeping. He rented a small farm, and Pg 159 went to work. After a few years, he removed to another part of the state, where there was plenty of game, in consequence of which he became a hunter. About the year 1810, he settled on Bear Creek, where he remained till after the war of 1812. During the Creek war in Tennessee, in 1812, Crockett served as a private soldier under General Jackson, and displayed no small share of enterprise and daring. He also served in one of the expeditions to Florida, meeting with a great variety of adventures. Soon after the close of the war, in 1815, he lost his wife, but married again, and, as he says, "went ahead." After a time, he removed, with his family, to Shoal Creek, where the settlers, living apart from the rest of the world, set up a government for themselves; they established certain laws, and Crockett was elected one of the magistrates. The operations of this forest republic are thus described by our hero:
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Good. Boston: Thompson, Brown & Company, 1875. Undated, ca. 1875. Collected biographies of persons known for outstanding or unusual character. Attractive ex-library copy in rust colored cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black. Light edgewear, black horizontal strip to spine no doubt from previous spine number, spine glossy due to library-appplied coating, good hinges, sound text block, foxed endpapers, handwritten number inside front cover and on copyright page, bookplate removed from rear free endpaper, binding sound, pages clean with no other markings. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
