Every man who built a cabin and raised a crop of grain, however small, was entitled to four hundred acres of land, and a preemption right to one thousand more adjoining, to be secured by a land-office warrant.
In this lonely home, Mr.Crockett, with his wife and children, dwelt for some months, perhaps years--we know not how long.

One night, the awful yell of the savage was heard, and a band of human demons came rushing upon the defenceless family.

Imagination cannot paint the tragedy which ensued.

Though this lost world, ever since the fall of Adam, has been filled to repletion with these scenes of woe, it causes one's blood to curdle in his veins as he contemplates this one deed of cruelty and blood.
The howling fiends were expeditious in their work.

The father and mother were pierced by arrows, mangled with the tomahawk, and scalped.
One son, severely wounded, escaped into the forest.