And I can assert, on my honor, that I believe he would have weighed six hundred pounds.

It was the second largest I ever saw.

I killed one, a few years after, that weighed six hundred and seventeen pounds.

I now felt fully compensated for my sufferings in going back after my powder; and well satisfied that a dog might sometimes be doing a good business, even when he seemed to be barking up the wrong tree.
"We got our meat home, and I had the pleasure to know that we now had a plenty, and that of the best; and I continued through the winter to supply my family abundantly with bear-meat, and venison from the woods." In the early spring, Crockett found that he had a large number of valuable skins on hand, which he had taken during the winter.

About forty miles southeast from Crockett's cabin, in the heart of Madison County, was the thriving little settlement of Jackson.