The Life and Adventures of Colonel David Crockett of West Tennessee

The legendary Davy Crockett arose simultaneously with the emergence of the historical Crockett as a public figure, and once established, the man and the myth were forevermore entangled. The present work, his Life and Adventures (1833), ushered in a series of biographical and autobiographical books that thrust Crockett fully onto the national and international scene. This book, quickly retitled Sketches and Eccentricities, was the most outlandish. Its purported author, J. S. French, mixed tw...