Black Hawk vs Davy Crockett

Black Hawk vs Davy Crockett

The lives of David Crockett and that of Black Hawk have similarities and differences.   They were both men of the same time era, who had memoirs and views of issues of that time period.   Even though their views might have been different, they both lived through the same controversial issues of the time.
David Crockett and Black Hawk both had strong ties to their fathers.   David Crockett who was the prodigal son who came back home to his father worked one year to pay of his father's notes.   The first note his father asked him to help him pay for by working for a man for six months.   After the six months Crockett tried to find work on his own in order to make some of his money.   He went to the home of John Kennedy and asked if he could work for him, Crockett agreed to work for him for a trail week.   After the week Kennedy was satisfied with the Crockett's work, however he informed him of another debt his father owed to Kennedy.   Crockett felt it was his duty to work off his father's debt.   "He held a note on my father for forty dollars, and that he would give me that note if I would work for him six months... it was my duty as a child to help him along..." (Crockett pg. 69) For one year David Crockett worked off the debts of his father sacrificing himself to save his father.
Black Hawk was similar in his close ties with his father.   When Black Hawk lost his father in a battle he was overcome with vengeance.   "The lost of my father, by the Cherokees, made me anxious to avenge his death, by annihilation, if possible of all their race."   (Hawk pg. 90)   His bond to his father caused him to feel hatred to those that killed him, and take revenge for his father.  
Both men considered themselves as mighty warriors, writing about their victories and their great wins and little losses.   David Crockett wrote about his encounter of an Indian village, "the number that we took prisoners, being added to the number we killed amounted to one hundred and eighty- six... we had...