David Crockett: The Man and the Legend

Davy Crockett has been America's best-known folk hero for at least 160 years. This informed biography by James Atkins Shackford first appeared in 1956, at the height of the television-inspired Crockett craze. As Michael Lofaro notes in his introduction, Shackford faced the monumental task of rescuing a nearly unknown David Crockett from the obscurity caused by the popularity of the earlier legendary Davys and deepened by Disney. He succeeded memorably, restoring David Crockett of Tennessee, a true pioneer and colorful figure even without romantic trappings.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 09/01/1994
ISBN: 9780803292307
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.93h x 5.95w x 0.81d