Abbott tells the life of Davy Crockett from a poor Tennessee childhood and runaway youth through his marriages, bear hunts, the Creek War and an unlikely career in Congress. Quoting Crockett’s own salty recollections, he presents him as the representative frontiersman of his day, though not a model one.
A popular Victorian biography that shows how the Crockett legend was told to American readers. Download the free EPUB.