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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 976.804092
EAN: 9780803289673
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN: 0803289677
Label: University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 276
Publication Date: June 01, 1998
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Studio: University of Nebraska Press
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Blending myth and reality, Constance Rourke aimed to get at the heart of Davy Crockett, whose hold on the American imagination was firm even before he died at the Alamo. Published in 1934, her work pioneered in showing the backwoodsman's transformation into a folk hero. It remains a basic in the Crockett literature.
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Some have complained, over the years, that this book was more novel than biography. Okay, then... what a great NOVEL! This was in my elementary school library in Elgin, AZ, and if I'd studied my textbooks like I studied this, I might have been a MONSTER! Connie Roarke made a great book, and I bless her name for it!
BONUS: Read how Davy was a true Small-government conservative in the Jacksonian (read that "Proto-Clintonian") big-government epoch! It's the true hero tale of the ... Read More
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