David Crockett The Lion Of The West Michael Wallis by Michael Wallis 9780393067583, 0393067580, 8fd802c2-8e39-4fa6-8589-c2388b741a35, 8FD802C2-8E39-4FA6-8589-C2388B741A35 instant download after payment.

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. 60 black-and-white illustrations