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Tables of Contents for Davy Crockett's Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xiii
Acknowledgments
xvii
A Taste of the Tales
1
4
Shemales, Sentiment, and Stereotypes: A Long View of the Crockett Almanacs
5
88
A Note on Editorial Method
93
2
Crockett, Women, and the Age of Jackson: A Chronology, 1786-1856
95
6
Steven Harthorn
THE TALES
Wild and Grotesque Description
101
16
Crockett's Mother
102
1
Crockett's Aunt
103
1
Discovery of the Infant Crockett by His Uncle and Aunt
104
2
Crockett's Disappointment*
106
1
Crockett's First Love
107
2
Gum Swamp Breeding
109
3
The Flower of Gum Swamp
112
2
[The Puke's Wife]*
114
1
[The Corruption of Frontier Ways]*
114
1
Ben Hardin's Description of His Sweetheart*
115
2
Battles with Animals
117
44
Perilous Situation of Mrs. Crockett: Discovery of an Eagle's Nest
118
2
Terrible Fight with Three Panthers
120
2
The Panther and the Squaw
122
2
Crockett a Prisoner
124
2
Mrs. Cuttle and the Catamount
126
2
Whipping a Catamount
128
2
A Thief of an Alligator*
130
1
A Tongariferous Fight with an Alligator
131
2
Sappina Wing and the Crocodile
133
2
A Dangerous Situation
135
2
Perilous Adventure with a Black Bear
137
2
[Mrs. Crockett's 800 Petticoats]*
139
1
[Selling Mrs. Crockett's Petticoats]*
139
1
[Oak Wing's Aunt Jerusha]*
139
1
One of Crockett's Infant Children, Grinning Lightning at a Bear
140
2
The Tame Bear
142
1
A Desperate Fight between Two Women, One Man, and Two Bears
143
2
Sal Fink's Victory over an Old Bear and Cubs
145
2
Skinning a Bear
147
1
Nance Bowers Carried over Mud River by a Bear
148
2
An Evening Visiter
150
3
The Heroine of Kaintuck
153
3
Katy Goodgrit
156
2
The Methodist Person and His Eels
158
3
Battles With Humans
161
22
Mike Fink Trying to Scare Mrs. Crockett by Appearing to Her in an Alligator's Skin
162
2
The Indian and Crockett's Grandmother
164
3
Crockett's Daughter Guarded by a Lot of Panthers
167
1
The Celebrated Heroine*
168
1
A Single Combat
169
2
Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns
171
2
The Bravery of Mike Fink's Wife*
173
1
[Oak Wing's Daughter and the Yankee Pedlar]*
173
1
A Rail Herowine
174
3
Crockett's Description of the Joint Occupacy of Oregon
177
1
A Love Fight---by Ben Harding
178
2
Ben Hardin in a Dancing Match
180
3
Courting Stories and Amorous Adventures
183
64
Davy Crockett's Early Days, Severe Courtship, and Marriage*
184
5
A Love Adventure and Uproarious Fight with a Stage Driver*
189
2
A Blackberry Frolic*
191
1
A Bundling Match
192
4
Larned Courting
196
3
Crockett Paying Off Two Frenchmen for Insulting His Sweetheart; Taming a Lioness, &c
199
2
Driving Ahead; or, How Davy Crocket[t] Got His Wife
201
2
Crockett Popping the Question
203
2
A Snake Story
205
2
A Corn Cracker's Account of His Encounter with an Eelskin
207
2
The Yankee Pedlar
209
2
Severe Courtship
211
3
Account of a Goose Pulling. As Related by Col. Crockett to a Yankee, Who Did Not Know What the Thing Was
214
3
The Early Days, Love and Courtship of Ben Harding, Member of Congress from Kentucky, as Related to Col. Crockett by Himself
217
5
Love in a Chest
222
3
Ben Harding's Courtship
225
3
Tar's [Tars, i.e. Sailors] and Injun Feathers or A Squall among the Squaws
228
2
Ben Harding and the Mermaid
230
2
A Sailor's Yarn
232
3
The Rival Lovers
235
2
The Disguised Yankee
237
2
[Snag Darling's Daughter and the Yankee Pedlar]*
239
1
Tom Towson's Story*
240
2
A Scienterifical Courtship
242
3
Colonel Coon's Wife Judy
245
2
Sentimental and Religious Stories
247
16
A Good Wife*
248
1
The ``Gold Maiden'': An Adventure in California
249
2
A Gold-Ruminating upon Ruination
251
2
Indian Notions
253
3
Indian Virtue*
256
1
[Sal Waterman's Pious Tears]*
256
1
Crockett's Double-Breasted Gal-Iantry, in Rescuing an Emigrant Lady and Child from an Ingin, near the Rocky Mountain[s]
257
2
The Celebrated Heroine of the American Camp, ``The Great Western''*
259
1
Davy's Sister: Rescuing Adventurers in the Rocky Mountains
260
3
True Adventure Stories
263
24
Washington's Great Feat of Rescuing the Child of the Indian Queen from the Talons of an Eagle*
264
2
Terrific Incident in the Great Cave of Kentucky
A Whole Family Attacked by Wolves*
266
2
A Narrow Escape of a Woman from a Panther in Texas
268
2
A Terrible Fight with a Snake and Panther, and a Young Lady Rescued
270
2
Lucky Escape of Two Ladies from a Catamount
272
2
Perils of the Rocky Mountains
A Woman Rescued from the Snow-Drift
274
2
Indian Barbarity
276
4
Stratagem and Cruelty of a Party of Indians
280
4
A Young Warrior of the Pawnees
284
3
Stereotypes, Stock Figures, and Jokes
287
38
Crockett's Account of the Concerts in Kansas*
288
1
A Wolfish Affair
289
2
Buying a Horse
291
2
Crockett Rescuing a Captive Girl
293
2
The Wife Swallowed
295
2
[Dancing Bears at a Wedding]*
297
1
[Who Died for You?]*
297
1
Young Lady's Diary*
298
1
[A Yankee Help]
299
1
[The Poet Collins]*
300
1
[``May I Be Married, Ma?'']*
300
1
Emigration
301
1
Declaration of Independence
302
1
The Rag Fair
303
2
Resignation
305
1
[Sally Chatterwell]*
306
1
Kentucky Bluntness*
306
1
[Poor Shakem Nervous]
307
1
The Fish Fag
308
1
A Fishing Smack
309
1
Ben Harding's Account of a Shipwreck
310
4
The Jewesses*
314
1
A Mormon Preacher Is Treed in the Act of Making Love to a Beautiful Plantation Wench
315
2
A Leap unto the Other Side of Jordan
317
1
The Old Squaw Gumachaw Who Cooked and Eat the Prisoner's Horse*
318
1
The Indian Squaw, Who First Stole and Then Eat One of the Mormon's Horses
319
2
[Why the Groom Avoids the Church]*
321
1
My Idee of a Bloomer Kuss-Tume*
321
1
A Woman in California*
322
1
A Missourian's Opinion of His Neighbor*
323
2
Recipes and Household Hints
325
6
Davy Crockett's Recipe for Preserving Horseflesh amongst Wolves*
326
1
Receipt for a Cold*
326
1
Crockett's Plan for Keeping Children from Getting the Measels*
327
1
[Curing a Fever]*
327
1
[How to Cure a Cold]*
328
1
A Receipt for Cholera*
328
1
To Housewives*
329
1
[Candles]*
329
1
Crockett's Recipe for a Corn-Cake*
330
1
Crockett's Recipe for Cooking Bear-Steaks*
330
1
Appendix: The Sources of the Tales
331