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INDEX
Abbott, John S. C.
ABC television
Abingdon, Va.
abolitionism
Account of Col. Crockett’s Tour to the North and Down East in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Four, An (Clark)
Adaline (slave)
Adams, John Quincy
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain)
Africa
Alabama
Alabama River
Alamo
as “Cradle of Texas Liberty,”
fall of
as historic site
Alamo, Battle of
DC’s fighting and death at
Mexican army at
thirteen-day siege at
Alcorn, John
Aldolphus (slave)
Alexander, Adam Rankin
Alexandria, Va.
Allegheny Mountains
Alsace-Lorraine
American Hotel
American Indians:
abrogation of treaties with
British land agreements and alliances with
culture of
encroachment of settlers on lands of
hostilities of settlers and
Jackson’s removal of
massacre, marauding and scalping by
medical knowledge of
slaves owned by
war paint of
see also specific Indian tribes
American Revolution
British surrender in
Cherokee alliance with British in
southern campaign of
veterans of
anti-Catholicism
Appalachian Mountains
Arkansas
Arkansas Gazette,
Armstrong, Zella
Army, U.S.
Army of East Tennessee
Army of West Tennessee
Arnold, William
Arthur, King
Atlantic Ocean
Attakullakulla
Austin, Stephen Fuller
Austin Colony, Tex.
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (Franklin)
baby boom generation
Bailey, Nathan
Ball, Mary
“Ballad of Davy Crockett, The,”
Baltimore, Md.
Bangor, Maine