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DAVID CROCKETT: His Life and Adventures by John S. C. Abbott might be the most accurate book you’ll ever read about this great American icon. Throughout the book, Crockett speaks to you in his own words and relates his amazing story.The author admits that Davy Crockett wasn’t a model man, but nonetheless, “he has exerted a very powerful influence over this great republic.” You’ll meet other men of history, but make no mistake...this book is about that great adventurer and outdoorsman, Davy Crockett.While modern Americans might think they know about Davy Crockett, their knowledge is based on a romantic television series or the movies. This book tells the true story in Davy’s own words.You’re in for an exciting time as you read and enjoy DAVID CROCKETT: His Life and Adventures.Included is historical and original art by David Wright.

DAVID CROCKETT: His Life and Adventures by John S. C. Abbott might be the most accurate book you’ll ever read about this great American icon. Throughout the book, Crockett speaks to you in his own words and relates his amazing story.The author admits that Davy Crockett wasn’t a model man, but nonetheless, “he has exerted a very powerful influence over this great republic.” You’ll meet other men of history, but make no mistake...this book is about that great adventurer and outdoorsman, Davy Crockett.While modern Americans might think they know about Davy Crockett, their knowledge is based on a romantic television series or the movies. This book tells the true story in Davy’s own words.You’re in for an exciting time as you read and enjoy DAVID CROCKETT: His Life and Adventures.Included is historical and original art by David Wright.

DAVID CROCKETT: His Life and Adventures by John S. C. Abbott might be the most accurate book you’ll ever read about this great American icon. Throughout the book, Crockett speaks to you in his own words and relates his amazing story.The author admits that Davy Crockett wasn’t a model man, but nonetheless, “he has exerted a very powerful influence over this great republic.” You’ll meet other men of history, but make no mistake...this book is about that great adventurer and outdoorsman, Davy Crockett.While modern Americans might think they know about Davy Crockett, their knowledge is based on a romantic television series or the movies. This book tells the true story in Davy’s own words.You’re in for an exciting time as you read and enjoy DAVID CROCKETT: His Life and Adventures.Included is historical and original art by David Wright.

DAVID CROCKETT: His Life and Adventures by John S. C. Abbott might be the most accurate book you’ll ever read about this great American icon. Throughout the book, Crockett speaks to you in his own words and relates his amazing story.The author admits that Davy Crockett wasn’t a model man, but nonetheless, “he has exerted a very powerful influence over this great republic.” You’ll meet other men of history, but make no mistake...this book is about that great adventurer and outdoorsman, Davy Crockett.While modern Americans might think they know about Davy Crockett, their knowledge is based on a romantic television series or the movies. This book tells the true story in Davy’s own words.You’re in for an exciting time as you read and enjoy DAVID CROCKETT: His Life and Adventures.Included is historical and original art by David Wright.

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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.

"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.