They had brought some seed with them on their pack-horse, and they soon had the pleasure of seeing the tender sprouts pushing up vigorously through the luxuriant virgin soil.

It was not necessary to fence their field.
Crockett writes: "There was no stock nor anything else to disturb our corn except the wild varmints; and the old serpent himself, with a fence to help him, couldn't keep them out." Here Crockett and his three companions remained through the summer and into the autumn, until they could gather in their harvest of corn.
During that time they lived, as they deemed, sumptuously, upon game.

To kill a grizzly bear was ever considered an achievement of which any hunter might boast.

During the summer, Crockett killed ten of these ferocious monsters.

Their flesh was regarded as a great delicacy.