He had then four brothers.
Subsequently four other children were added to the family.
His childhood's home was more humble than the majority of the readers of this volume can imagine.

It was destitute of everything which, in a higher state of civilization, is deemed essential to comfort.

The wigwam of the Indian afforded as much protection from the weather, and was as well furnished, as the cabin of logs and bark which sheltered his father's family.

It would seem, from David Crockett's autobiography, that in his childhood he went mainly without any clothing, like the pappooses of an Indian squaw.

These facts of his early life must be known, that we may understand the circumstances by which his peculiar character was formed.
He had no instruction whatever in religion, morals, manners, or mental culture.