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To one familiar with...": Cardinal Goodwin, John Charles Fremont: An Explanation of His Career (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 1936), p.3. "Blessed are they...": Jones quoted in Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Honor and Violence In the Old South (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1936). p. 39. Fremont's career: Allan Nevins, "Fremont, John Charles," in Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. IV (New York: Scribner's, 1933), pp. 19-23. Parents' background: John Bigelow, Memoir of the Life and Public Services of John Charles Fremont (New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856), pp.11-22 ; Allan Nevins, Fremont The Wests Greatest Adventurer, Vol. I. (New York: Harper, 1928), pp. 1-6; Goodwin, pp. 1-2; Ferol Egan, Fremont: Explorer for a Restless Nation (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977), pp. 2-5. "You may spare yourself...": Nevins, p. 5. the vile and insidious...": Goodwin, p. 2. Flight of Anne Pryor and Fremon, and birth of baby: Nevins, pp. 6-7. "a city of refuge...": L.U. Reavis, The Life and Military Services of Gen. William Selby Harney (St. Louis: Bryan, Brand & Co., 1878), p. 6. "one of those curious...": James Parton, Life of Andrew Jackson, Vol. I (Boston: Tichnor and Fields, 1866), p. 391. "Tennessee was the Wild West...": Gerald W. Johnson, Andrew Jackson: An Epic in Homespun (New York: Minton, Balch & Co., 1927), p. 47. "settle them cases...": Marquis James, The Life of Andrew Jackson (Indianapolis: BobbsMerrill, 1938), p. 28.

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Jackson's duels and near-duels: Paul I. Wellman, The House Divides, etc., Mainstream of America Series (New York: Doubleday, 1966), p. 38. "Wild Bill Hickcock...": Johnson, p. 80. Benton-Jackson friendship: William N. Chambers, "Thomas Hart Benton in Tennessee, 1801-1832,", Vol. VIII, No.4 (December 1949), pp. 291-331. Benton's university days: William Nisbet Chambers, Old Bullion Benton: Senator from the New West (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956) p. 15. Benton farm: Lyn Sullivan, Back Home in Williamson County (Franklin, TN: Williamson County Bank, 1986), pp. 112-13; James A. Crutchfield, Williamson County: A Picture History (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Co., 1980), pp. 30-31 [photo of house]; Thomas Hart Benton, Thirty Years View, etc., Vol. I (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1886), p. ii. Benton's early career: W. W. Faw, "Missouri Did Not' Produce' Thomas Hart Benton," Franklin, TN. Review-Appeal, August 2, 1945; William N. Chambers, "Thomas Hart Benton in Tennessee, 1801-1802," Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. VIII, No.4 (December 1949), pp. 291-331; Thomas Vance Little, "The Tennessee Years of Thomas Hart Benton," Tennessee Valley Historical Review, Vol. 2, No.3 (Fall 1973), pp. 30-37; Van West, "Tracing Rutherford's Best State Senator," Accent [Murfreesboro, TN. Daily News Journal], April 9, 1978, pp. 3-6.

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Jackson at Natchez and march home: Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), pp. 170-80. Hair-cutting episode: Louise Littleton Davis, "He'd Rather Fight Than Crop," in her More Tales of Tennessee (Gretna, LA.: Pelican Publishing Co., 1978), pp. 56- 61. William Carroll vs. Jesse Benton: Remini, pp. 180-82. Jackson-Benton exchange of letters: Harold D. Moser and Sharon MacPherson, eds., The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Vol. II, 1804-1813. (Knoxville: The Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1984)IPP. 413-15, 418-22. Jackson-Benton brawl: John Spencer Bassett, ed., Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, Vol. I, to April 30, 1814 (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1926), pp. 317-18 (James W. Sitler affidavit; Benton's newspaper account); Parton, "Feud and Affray with the Bentons," pp. 386~98.(based~on John Coffee's recollections). Secondary accounts: Remini, pp. 184-86; Elbert W. Smith, " 'Now Defend Yourself, You Damned Rascal'. American Heritage, Vol. IX, No.2 (February 1958), pp. 44-47, 106; Hugh Walker, "A Shootout On the Square," in his Tennessee Tales (Nashville: Aurora Publishers), pp. 205-09. Danger to baby: Bigelow, p. 22; Egan, p. 6. Benton confiding in a letter: Parton, 395-96. Benton leaves Tennessee: William N. Chambers, "Thwarted Warrior: The Last Years of Thomas Hart Benton in Tennessee, 1812-1812," East Tennessee Historical Society' s Publications No. 22 (1950), pp. 19-44. "guard his house...": Chambers, Old Bullion Benton, p. 122. "an extraordinary idea: Ibid., p. 147. Bullet removal: Ibid., pp. 194-95.

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Destinies Clash at the City Hotel, Notes Jackson's death: Ibid., pp. 293-94.

Benton's later career: Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton, American Statesman Series (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892); William M. Meigs, The Life of Thomas Hart Benton (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1904; rpt. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970); Chambers, Old Bullion Benton; Smith, Magnificent Missourian; Louis Martin Sears, "Thomas Hart Benton, in Allen Johnson, ed., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. I (New York: Scribner's, 1957), pp. 210-13. Benton County: Jonathan K. T. Smith, Benton County, Tennessee County Histories, No.3 (Memphis: Memphis State Univ. Press, 1979), pp. 31-32. "We'll Give 'Em Jessie": Irwin Silber, comp., Songs of the Great American West (New York: MacMillan, 1967), pp. 30-32. Jessie's life: Pamela Herr, Jessie Benton Fremont: A Biography (New York: Franklin Watts, 1987). "If a bullet...": John Myers , The Deaths of the Bravos (Boston: Little, Brown, 1962), p. 3.