While we were conversing, writes Crockett, "Colonel Bowie had occasion to draw his famous knife, and I wish I may be shot if the bare sight of it wasn't enough to give a man of a squeamish stomach the colic. He saw I was admiring it, and said he, 'Colonel, you might tickle a fellow's ribs a long time with this little instrument before you'd make make him laugh.'"
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This is a good read. The author does not editorialize and allows the reader to see many of Crockett's own accounts of his life from his own personal journals.
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I grew up a fan of Walt Disney's Davy Crocket movies and I read Davy Crockett: His Own Story in college to compare the history with the legend. I would have stopped at the autobio if it weren't for Kindle offering all of these older and harder to find titles. It's a straightforward telling of Davy's life story and I think more of an inspiration to the Disney film that Crockett's own work. And that surprised me in a pleasant way. Written in the late 1800s, this book deals with Davy the legend after the fire of his time but before the era of revisionist authors that look for every wart. It's one of the best books I have read about the harshness of life 200 years ago and how people took it for granted that peril was beyond every horizon.
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If you like reading about the pioneer life this is a great intro to it. It has its moments of fun and then serious. I had some trouble putting this book down. Hope you do too.
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A LITTLE more than a hundred years ago, a poor man, by the name of Crockett, embarked on board an emigrant-ship, in Ireland, for the New World. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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David Crockett, General Jackson, John Crockett, Colonel Crockett, Andrew Jackson, United States, Major Russel, New York, Santa Anna, Fort Strother, Captain Mathews, Henry Snyder, New England, Creek Indians, Major Gibson, Tennessee River, Colonel Alexander, Coosa River, North Carolina, Colonel Travis, Giles County, Jack Thompson, Obion River, San Antonio, Shorge Fulwiler New!
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A LITTLE more than a hundred years ago, a poor man, by the name of Crockett, embarked on board an emigrant-ship, in Ireland, for the New World. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ich hash, exploring tour, much toll Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
David Crockett, General Jackson, John Crockett, Colonel Crockett, Andrew Jackson, United States, Major Russel, New York, Santa Anna, Fort Strother, Captain Mathews, Henry Snyder, New England, Creek Indians, Major Gibson, Tennessee River, Colonel Alexander, Coosa River, North Carolina, Colonel Travis, Giles County, Jack Thompson, Obion River, San Antonio, Shorge Fulwiler New!
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- David Crockett (Dodo Press) by John S. C. Abbott in Front Matter, and page 1
- David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John S.C. Abbott in Front Matter
- David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John S. C. Abbott in Front Matter
- David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John Stevens Cabot Abbott in Front Matter
- 99 Jumpstarts for Kids: Getting Started in Research by Peggy Whitley on page 67, and Back Matter
- David Crockett: his life and adventures. By John S. C. Abbott ... by Michigan Historical Reprint Series in Front Matter
- David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John Stevens Cabot Abbott in Front Matter
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