CHAPTER I.
Parentage and Childhood.
The Emigrant .-- Crossing the Alleghanies .-- The boundless Wilderness .-- The Hut on the Holston .-- Life's Necessaries .-- The Massacre .-- Birth of David Crockett .-- Peril of the Boys .-- Anecdote .-- Removal to Greenville; to Cove Creek .-- Increased Emigration .-- Loss of the Mill .-- The Tavern .-- Engagement with the Drover .-- Adventures in the Wilderness .-- Virtual Captivity .-- The Escape .-- The Return .-- The Runaway .-- New Adventures.
A little more than a hundred years ago, a poor man, by the name of Crockett, embarked on board an emigrant-ship, in Ireland, for the New World.

He was in the humblest station in life.

But very little is known respecting his uneventful career excepting its tragical close.

His family consisted of a wife and three or four children.

Just before he sailed, or on the Atlantic passage, a son was born, to whom he gave the name of John.