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Steeped in legend, shrouded in folklore, the real David Crockett, American frontiersman and cultural icon, finally emerges in this engrossing biography.

His name was David Crockett. He never signed his name any other way, but popular culture transformed his memory into "Davy Crockett," and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. Best-selling historian Michael Wallis casts a fresh look at the frontiersman, storyteller, and politician behind these legendary stories. Born into a humble Tennessee family in 1786, Crockett never "killed him a b'ar" when he was only three. But he did cut a huge swath across early-nineteenth-century America―as a bear hunter, a frontier explorer, a soldier serving under Andrew Jackson, an unlikely congressman, and, finally, a martyr in his now-controversial death at the Alamo. Wallis's David Crockett is more than a riveting story. It is a revelatory, authoritative biography that separates fact from fiction, providing us with an extraordinary evocation of a true American hero and the rough-and-tumble times in which he lived. 60 black-and-white illustrations

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Like Crockett himself [Wallis] is a storyteller. The man who emerges from these pages is vivid, comprehensible, and, in the main, historically reliable. On a subject that has come to be dominated by acrimonious debate and posturing, such serenity has a lot to recommend it. "

Michael Wallis is the master frontier story teller, having chronicled everything from Billy the Kid to Highway 66. Now he s told the tale of the real David Crockett as distinguished from the mostly mythical one. Davy (with a show biz y ) Crockett did, in fact, die at The Alamo but he did not kill a bear when he was only three or wear a coonskin cap except in publicity photographs. That s just for starters. But the truth has a way of being more interesting than the made-up, most particularly when in the talented writing mind and hands of Michael Wallis. --Jim Lehrer"

Wallis examination of the man behind the myth is both well written and engrossing. "

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Michael Wallis, the best-selling author of Route 66 and Billy the Kid, has published eighteen books and won numerous honors and awards. He is a popular public speaker and a highly acclaimed voice actor. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (May 16, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393067580
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393067583
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.61 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.3 x 9.6 inches

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It has been said, "reading a Michael Wallis book is like dancing to a romantic ballad. He offers his hand and gently guides you across the floor, swaying to the song of the American West."

A best-selling author and award-winning reporter, Michael is a historian and biographer of the American West who also has gained international notoriety as a speaker and voice talent. In 2006 Michael’s distinctive voice was heard in Cars, an animated feature film from Pixar Studios, also featuring Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Owen Wilson, Michael Keaton, and George Carlin. Michael is also featured in Cars 2, a sequel to the original motion picture released in 2011.

A storyteller who likes nothing better than transporting audiences across time and space, Michael has published seventeen books, including Route 66: The Mother Road, the book credited with sparking the resurgence of interest in the highway. In 2011, Michael’s latest works were published — David Crockett: The Lion of the West, and The Wild West 365.

Other Wallis books include The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West; Mankiller: A Chief and Her People; Way Down Yonder In The Indian Nation; and Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd. His work has been published in hundreds of national and international magazines and newspapers, including Time, Life, People, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.

Michael has been nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize and was also a nominee for the National Book Award. He has won many other prestigious honors, such as the Will Rogers Spirit Award, the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall & Western Heritage Museum, the Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, and the Best Western Non-fiction Award from the Western Writers of America.

For further information about Michael Wallis, visit http://www.michaelwallis.com.

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Mike D. Landfair

David Crockett: The Lion of the West (Some Things Never Change)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2011

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David Crockett: The Lion of the West

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As I wrote recently, one of the most widely read posts of Mover Mike is Davy Crockett and Public Money. I bought Michael Wallis' book to read more stories about David Crockett similar to the one I quoted. I'm disappointed that that there weren't many stories of Crockett's time in Washington D.C.. I was looking for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington type stories. Crockett was pretty down to earth; hard drinking, chewing, bear hunter with little formal education. He had a way of speaking that caused people to hang on his stories.

Financially, he was mostly a basket case, always going into debt and then having to sell most all his assets to pay off creditors. He had "itchy feet." He just couldn't stay rooted to one spot. When the game was exhausted, he picked up his family and moved west to build a new farm where the hunting was good. Wallis does a good job of the narrative of David Crockett and his weaknesses and dispelling the myths that have grown up around Crockett's life.

Some things never change. Wallis tells us that after the Revolutionary War, people living out on "life's periphery, especially on the frontier, felt the new American government was mistreating them." Shay's Rebellion was an outgrowth and a blowback against the high debts and tax burden as a result of the war.

Geologists have nightmares of a New Madrid quake originating in the Tennessee/Arkansas area. From December, 1811 to February 1812, four earthquakes of 7.0 or greater struck the area along with hundreds of aftershocks. So intense were the quakes that they rang the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. About 1821 Crockett moved to what was now known as "the land of the shakes."

"The ground was scarred by deep fissures and cracks, some extending for miles through canebrakes and woods already thick again with stands of hickory, oak, and gum. A focal point of the region was Reelfoot Lake, a large body of water created by the earthquakes and studded with cypress trees, some hundreds of years old."

Scientists continue to monitor the New Madrid area and expect more quakes like those of 1811-1812 anytime.

In 1835 Crockett and some friends rode on horseback to Texas. Texas was an almost Eden-like place, yet owned by Mexico. The problems of Americans moving to Texas caused immigration problems. Part of the problem was that the 20,000 settlers brought in 2,000 slaves. Mexico was opposed to slavery.

"Many of the new arrivals disregarded the laws, refused to pay customs fees, and took part in illegal smuggling activities. They provoked great outcry from Mexican newspapers and political leaders..."

The book is well written and I recommend it to anyone who is unfamiliar with David Crockett and the post-revoltionary war era in the U.S

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"Be allways (sic) sure you are right then Go, ahead." - David Crockett, written below his signature on the deed and the bill of sale for a slave girl he sold

"Elizabeth, Crockett's (second) wife, had reached her limit. She could no longer tolerate Crockett's behavior - all the hunting, excessive drinking, and his chronic pattern of abandoning his family. The ebullient public person contradicted the reckless personal one. She packed up and moved with those children still at home to Gibson County to reside with Patton kinfolk." - from DAVID CROCKETT

In the "Personal Introduction" to his book, DAVID CROCKETT, THE LION OF THE WEST, author Michael Wallis explains the genesis of his fascination with the man. It was for him, as it was for me and a young generation Americans at the time, the three-part Walt Disney television miniseries DAVY CROCKETT that aired in December 1954 - February 1955, which starred Fess Parker as the legendary hero. And, yes, I too had a coonskin hat - rabbit skin, actually - and a frontier jacket with fringe.

Crockett's biography by Wallis seems to be a well-researched, accurate, and erudite narrative of Crockett's life, though I'm in no position to judge except from the perspective of a reasonably intelligent reader. However, if success is measured by the establishment of a distinction between Crockett the legend and Crockett the man, then the volume is a triumph by any gauge. Indeed, should any adult who still idolizes the Fess Parker version of the frontiersman-hunter-Congressman read DAVID CROCKETT, then another hero will surely fall from the pedestal erected by popular myth.

DAVID CROCKETT contains a 16-page section of black and white photographs of better than average usefulness and interest.

Yes, Davy was an exceptional hunter, charismatic politician, honest, and brave. He was also an ineffective legislator, too fond of hard liquor, financially inept, too ready to periodically abandon his family when hearing the siren's call to wander the frontier landscape with his male pals to explore and hunt, and possessed of a conscience flexible enough to allow for the buying and selling of other humans. Indeed, he seems to me to have been no more -and perhaps less - admirable than the average John Q. citizen who lives next door and down the block and who quietly and competently meets responsibilities. In Crockett's case, subsequent flash laid on by the legend created mostly by others exceeds substance. One is left to wonder if the author himself became disillusioned; he doesn't say. For me, it's time to retire that old and ratty, rabbit fur hat.

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Author gives a very fair and accurate telling of David Crockett's life, with lots of well documented historical sources. He keeps the reader enthralled page to page.

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