The fall rains had so swollen the streams that vast extents of territory were inundated.

All the river-bottoms were covered with water.

The meadows which lined the Obion, where Crockett would have to pass, were so flooded that it was all of a mile from shore to shore.
The energy which Crockett displayed on the difficult and perilous journey, illustrates those remarkable traits of character which have given him such wide renown.

There must be something very extraordinary about a man which can make his name known throughout a continent.

And of the forty millions of people in the United States, there is scarcely one, of mature years, who has not heard the name of David Crockett.
When Crockett told his wife that he had decided to go to his brother's for the powder, she earnestly remonstrated, saying that it was at the imminent hazard of his life.