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Bibliography

Crockett Almanacks

The Crockett Almanacs; Nashville Series, 1835 - 1838 by Franklin J. Meine. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1955.

The Tall Tales of Davy Crockett: The Second Nashville Series of Crockett Almanacs, 1839 - 1841, Facsimile Edition, with introduction by Michael A. Lofaro. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.

Davy Crockett

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of The State of Tennessee by David Crockett, edited by James A. Schackford and S.J. Folmsbee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1973.

Davy Crockett: The Man, The Legend, The Legacy, 1786 - 1986, edited by Michael A. Lofaro. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1985.

Crockett at Two Hundred; New Perspectives on the Man and the Myth by Michael A. Lofaro and Joe Cummings. Knoxville, Tennessee, 1989.

Almanacs

America and Her Almanacs by Robb Sagendorph. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970.

Almanacs of the United States by Milton Drake. New York: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1962.

Folktales & Folklore

“American Hyperbole: the Tall Tale” by Linda M. Pavoneti and Christine M. Combs in Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, v.12 no. 2 (Winter 1999) p. 37-42.

Western Rivermen, 1763 - 1861; Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse by Michael Allen. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1990.

Tall Tale America; A Legendary History of Our Humorous Heroes by Walter Blair. New York: Coward-McCann, 1944.

A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People. Benjamin A. Botkin, editor. New York: Crown, 1944.

America in Legend: Folklore from the Colonial Period to the Present by Richard M. Dorson. New York: Pantheon Books, 1973.

The American Folklore Reader: Folklore in American Literature by John Theodore Flanagan, and Arthur Palmer Hudson. New York: A. S. Barnes. 1958.

Tall Tales of the Kentucky Mountains by Percy MacKaye. Illustrated by E. MacKinstry. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1926/1973.

Woodcuts

The Illustrated Book by Frank Weitenkampf. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938.

Manual of Woodcut Printmaking and Related Techniques by Walter Chamberlain. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978

How to Identify Prints by Bamber Gascoigne. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986.

American Prints from Wood: An Exhibition of Woodcuts and Wood Engravings by Jane M. Farmer. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975

Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers 1670 - 1870, 2 volumes, by Sinclair Hamilton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, vol. 1 1958, vol. 2 1968.

Resources for Teachers

What's So Funny? Wit and Humor in American Children's Literature by Michael Cart. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

Clark, Trinkett, and H. Nichols Clark. 1996. Myth, Magic, and Mystery: One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration. Boulder, Colo.: Roberts Rinehart and the Chrysler Museum of Art.

"Laughter and children's literature” by Sid Fleischman. In Crosscurrents of Criticism: Horn Book Essays 1968-1977, edited by Paul Heins. Boston: The Horn Book, 1977.

"Motifs: Making fairy tales our own" by Donald Haase. In Once Upon a Folktale: Capturing the Folklore Process with Children, edited by Gloria T. Blatt. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.

Web Resources

http://www.americanwest.com/pages/davycroc.htm
Biography of the historical figure, David Crockett

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/1830.htm
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events 1830 - 1839 (note: timeline covers 1650 - 1910 overall)

http://web.syr.edu/~kjhall/time/1800.htm
Syracuse University Timeline of the 1800s

http://www.kcls.org/hh/almanacs.cfm
Homework Help: Almanacs. King County Library System, King County, Washington

http://www.almanac.com/history/history.html
History of the Farmer’s Almanac.

http://www.bartleby.com/65/al/almanac.html
History of Almanacs. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.

http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/daily/?link=tmplnav
Information Please! Daily Almanac online.

http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/crockett.htm
AppLit: Resources for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults
Reading List: Davy Crockett

http://www.history.org/history/teaching/weather.cfm
Colonial Williamsburg
Lesson Plan: Elementary Grades: Predicting Weather in the 18th Century (Weathervanes and Almanacs)

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=288
National Endowment for the Humanities: EDSITEment, Marcopolo,
Lesson Plan, Grades 3 - 5: Born on a Mountaintop? Davy Crockett, Tall Tales and History

http://www.merrycoz.org/BOOKS.HTM
Nineteenth Century American Children and What They Read
Excerpts and some full text of period literature for and about children and their education.

http://www.merrycoz.org/adults.htm
Voices from Nineteenth Century America
Excerpts and some full text of period literature.

http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/davycrockett/students.html
The History Channel: “Live from Austin: The Story of Davy Crockett”
Student activity and research pages

http://history.missouristate.edu/GHummasti_internet_class/lectures/lecture5.htm
Southwest Missouri State University
American Social History Online: Lecture 5 - Americans on the Frontier
Resource Essay, Grades 9 - 12

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/crockett.html
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
Early Nineteenth Century: Davy Crockett (1786-1836)
Bibliography Resource, Grades 9 - 12

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/folklore.html
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
Documenting the American South: Folklore in Literature
Resource Essay, Grades 9 - 12

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/battleofthealamo/
Discovery Channel, Lesson Plan Library
The Alamo
Lesson Plan, Grades 9 - 12

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/borders/start.html
Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
Establishing Borders: The Expansion of the United States, 1846 - 48: Revival of Expansionism in the 1840s
Resource and Lesson Plans, Elementary - 12th grade

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