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The Lion of the West
W. W. Norton & Company
July 2011
On Sale: July 18, 2011
Featuring: David Crockett
483 pages
ISBN: 0393081443
EAN: 9780393081442
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Non-Fiction Biography
Steeped in legend, shrouded in folklore, the real David
Crockett, American frontiersman and cultural icon, finally
emerges in this engrossing biography.His name was David
Crockett. He never signed his name any other way, but popular culture
transformed his memory into "Davy Crockett," and Hollywood
gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. Best-selling
historian Michael Wallis casts a fresh look at the
frontiersman, storyteller, and politician behind these
legendary stories. Born into a humble Tennessee family in 1786, Crockett never
"killed him a b'ar" when he was only three. But he did cut a
huge swath across early-nineteenth-century America—as a bear
hunter, a frontier explorer, a soldier serving under Andrew
Jackson, an unlikely congressman, and, finally, a martyr in
his now-controversial death at the Alamo. Wallis's David Crockett is more than a riveting
story. It is a revelatory, authoritative biography that
separates fact from fiction, providing us with an
extraordinary evocation of a true American hero and the
rough-and-tumble times in which he lived.
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