Annoyed by a catchpenny book that had already told his life wrongly, Crockett set down his own version in 1834. He runs away from home as a boy, works off his father’s debts, marries, fights under Jackson in the Creek War, hunts bears by the hundred in west Tennessee and talks his way into the state legislature and then the House of Representatives.
Frontier autobiography in a salty, boastful vernacular that helped create the legend of Davy Crockett, two years before the Alamo. Download the free EPUB.