But there is a certain degree of sameness in these narratives of skill and endurance which would weary the reader.
In the fall of 1825, Crockett built two large flat-boats, to load with staves for the making of casks, which he intended to take down the river to market.

He employed a number of hands in building the boat and splitting out the staves, and engaged himself in these labors "till the bears got fat." He then plunged into the woods, and in two weeks killed fifteen.

The whole winter was spent in hunting with his son and his dogs.

His workmen continued busy getting the staves, and when the rivers rose with the spring floods, he had thirty thousand ready for the market.
With this load he embarked for New Orleans.

His boats without difficulty floated down the Obion into the majestic Mississippi.