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Item number:310151562727
Item location:Deep in the Heart of Texas, United States
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Item specifics - Nonfiction Books
Category: History United States
Format: Hardcover US, Western
Publication Year: 1987Condition: Like New
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Signed  
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DAVY CROCKETT
An American Hero

by Tom Townsend

Autographed on fly leaf
"Autographed Copy" sticker on jacket
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About this book:
From the Preface:   Davy Crockett was a frontiersman, a politician, and a folk hero of great popularity.  But most people remember him for his heroism and valiant death at the Battle of the Alamo.

Inside the Alamo chapel today are a few things which remain of Davy Crockett:  a lock of his hair, a tin box, and a beard brush.  There is even a log from his cabin in Tennessee.  The rifle he called Old Betsy is there, although it is much changed since the day Davy last fired it.  There is even a reproduction of his coonskin cap.

Most everything else we know, or think we know, about Davy Crockett is a collection of educated guesses.  We are not absolutely sure that his body was burned in a funeral pyre along with those of the other Alamo defenders.  There are at least five different reported locations where those ashes were supposed to have been buried later.

The experts will argue forever about the details of the exact way he died.  They will argue his reasons for coming to Texas and for remaining at the Alamo.  They will even doubt that he actually wore a coonskin cap (it may have been made from the skin of a fox instead).

To have told only the known facts about David Crockett would have made a very short and very dull book.  When it had been read, the reader would know very little about the real man.

To have collected all of the theories, guesses, leg-ends, and wild stories about Davy Crockett would have filled the shelves of a library.  And after all of those books were read, the readers would still have to form their own opinions about what kind of person Davy Crockett really was, what things he really did, what hat he really wore, and how he really died.

This book was intended to do neither of the above.  Instead, it was intended to paint a picture of the life of Davy Crockett as this author sees it after months of research.  I have used the known facts whenever they exist.  Wherever possible, I have used his own words.  But when those words were lost to history, I recreated them as I believe he would have spoken them.  In some cases I even invented a name for a character or two whom Davy wrote about in his autobiography but did not name.

I also used some of the legends and wild stories whenever I believed they could have really happened.  This is my way of making Davy Crockett as real as possible.  
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Publication Details:
  • PUBLISHER:   Eakin Press, Austin, Texas
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  • SIZE:   Approx 6.5" x 9.5"
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  • NUMBER OF PAGES:  70
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  • PRINTING DATE:  1987
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  • BINDING:   Hardcover with colorful jacket, dark brown leather-like boards with gilt titles on spine
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  • FINE book in VERY GOOD++ jacket (Grading system based on industry standard defined by AB Bookman, expanded by IOBA.)  Click here for an explanation of grading terms.   Your purchase will be cheerfully refunded if our subjective opinion of the book differs from your expectations.
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  • Light edge wear and two small closed tears on jacket.
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  • Book is as new.
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