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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 976.804092
EAN: 9780803292307
Edition: Third Printing
ISBN: 0803292309
Label: Bison Books
Manufacturer: Bison Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 338
Publication Date: September 28, 1994
Publisher: Bison Books
Studio: Bison Books
Features:- ISBN13: 9780803292307
- Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Davy Crockett has been America's best-known folk hero for at least 160 years. This informed biography by James Atkins Shackford first appeared in 1956, at the height of the television-inspired Crockett craze. As Michael Lofaro notes in his introduction, "Shackford faced the monumental task of rescuing a nearly unknown David Crockett from the obscurity caused by the popularity of the earlier legendary Davys and deepened by Disney." He succeeded memorably, restoring David Crockett of Tennessee, a true pioneer and colorful figure even without romantic trappings.
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This remains the definitive biography of David Crockett. Shackford is a firm believer that the real David Crockett is a much more interesting man than the legendary Davy Crockett, and although he recounts both the real and the legendary about the man here, it's the real he concentrates on - sometimes in great detail, but never to the point of totally overwhelming the reader.
Crockett was born in 1786 in Tennessee. His grandparents were killed by Indians near today's Rogersville, ... Read More
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This book, written in the height of the Crockett hysteria in the 1950's, attempts to present an objective view of the real David Crockett. Most of the book deals with Crockett the senator, not Crockett the backwoodsman or Crockett of the Alamo. In this, at least, the book is valuable, because it portrays a David Crockett far different from the Davy Crockett of Walt Disney or John Wayne.
The book is valuable in this respect, but it is poorly written. The author skips from one subject ... Read More
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