Books with author John Abbott

Renowned as a frontiersman, folk hero, congressman and Alamo defender, Davy Crockett was one of the most illustrious and heroic figures in American history. Crockett’s biographers often say there were actually two Crocketts: David, the frontiersman and congressman martyred at the Alamo, and Davy, the larger-than-life folk hero whose exploits were chronicled in several books, a series of almanacs and on stage. In 1831 the play "The Lion of the West" opened in New York City. The play was a thinly disguised and highly colored account of Crockett's life that helped cement his folktale hero image in the public imagination. He was an extraordinary American hero whose stories dramatize American cultural values for a wide popular audience. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally a part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. The author John Stephens Cabot Abbott, a well-known pastor and historian, brings this biography of a colorful icon to life, closely founded on fact, separating the facts from the fiction, with a most engaging ability to paint pictures with words.

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From his humble origins in western Pennsylvania, to his blazing of the Wilderness Road into Kentucky and his exploits during the Revolutionary War and beyond. The name of Daniel Boone is a conspicuous one in the annals of our country. And yet there are but few who are familiar with the events of his wonderful career, or who have formed a correct estimate of the character of the man. Many suppose that he was a rough, coarse backwoodsman, almost as savage as the bears he pursued in the chase, or the Indians whose terrors he so perseveringly braved. Instead of this, he was one of the most mild and unboastful of men; feminine as a woman in his tastes and his deportment, never uttering a coarse word, never allowing himself in a rude action. He was truly one of nature's gentle men. With all this instinctive refinement and delicacy, there was a boldness of character which seemed absolutely incapable of experiencing the emotion of fear. And surely all the records of chivalry may be searched in vain for a career more full of peril and of wild adventure. The Discovery and early Settlement of America. Daniel Boone, his Parentage, and early Adventures. Louisiana, its Discovery and Vicissitudes. Camp Life Beyond the Alleghanies. Indian Warfare. Sufferings of the Pioneers. Life in the Wilderness. Captivity and Flight. Victories and Defeats. British Allies. Kentucky organized as a State. Adventures Romantic and Perilous. A New Home.

"David Crockett certainly was not a model man. But he was a representative man. He was conspicuously one of a very numerous class, still existing, and which has heretofore exerted a very powerful influence over this republic. As such, his wild and wondrous life is worthy of the study of every patriot. Of this class, their modes of life and habits of thought, the majority of our citizens know as little as they do of the manners and customs of the Comanche Indians. "No man can make his name known to the forty millions of this great and busy republic who has not something very remarkable in his character or his career. But there is probably not an adult American, in all these widespread States, who has not heard of David Crockett. His life is a veritable romance, with the additional charm of unquestionable truth. It opens to the reader scenes in the lives of the lowly, and a state of semi-civilization, of which but few of them can have the faintest idea. "It has not been my object, in this narrative, to defend Colonel Crockett or to condemn him, but to present his peculiar character exactly as it was. I have therefore been constrained to insert some things which I would gladly have omitted." JOHN S. C. ABBOTT, FAIR HAVEN, CONN. CHAPTER I. Parentage and Childhood. CHAPTER II. Youthful Adventures. CHAPTER III. Marriage and Settlement. CHAPTER IV. The Soldier Life. CHAPTER V. Indian Warfare. CHAPTER VI. The Camp and the Cabin. CHAPTER VII. The Justice of Peace and the Legislator. CHAPTER VIII. Life on the Obion. CHAPTER IX. Adventures in the Forest, on the River, and in the City CHAPTER X. Crockett's Tour to the North and the East. CHAPTER XI. The Disappointed Politician.—Off for Texas. CHAPTER XII. Adventures on the Prairie. CHAPTER XIII. Conclusion.

Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (December 24, 1809 - May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and U.S. Army officer. He became a frontier legend in his own lifetime via biographies and news articles. His (sometimes exaggerated) exploits were the subject of dime novels. In 'Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson the Pioneer of the West,' historian John Abbott traces the remarkable life of this early American icon.

Three hundred and fifty years ago the ocean which washes the shores of America was one vast and silent solitude. No ship plowed its waves; no sail whitened its surface. On the 11th of October, 1492, three small vessels might have been seen invading, for the first time, these hitherto unknown waters. They were as specks on the bosom of infinity. The sky above, the ocean beneath, gave no promise of any land. Three hundred adventurers were in these ships. Ten weeks had already passed since they saw the hills of the Old World sink beneath the horizon. For weary days and weeks they had strained their eyes looking toward the west, hoping to see the mountains of the New World rising in the distance. The illustrious adventurer, Christopher Columbus, who guided these frail barks, inspired by science and by faith, doubted not that a world would ere long emerge before him from the apparently boundless waters. But the blue sky still overarched them, and the heaving ocean still extended in all directions its unbroken and interminable expanse.

Excerpt from David Crockett: His Life and AdventuresNo man can make his name known to the forty millions of this great and busy republic who has not something very remarkable in his character or his career. But there is probably not an adult Ameri can, ia all these widespread States, who has not heard of David Crockett. His life is a veritable romance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott (September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's Institute, New York City, and in the preparation of his series of brief historical biographies. Dr. Abbott graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825, prepared for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, and between 1830 and 1844, when he retired from the ministry in the Congregational Church, preached successively at Worcester, Roxbury and Nantucket, all in Massachusetts

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