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David Crockett was an adventurer, a pioneer, and a media-savvy national celebrity. In his short-but-distinguished lifetime, this charismatic frontiersman won three terms as a U.S. congressman and a presidential nomination. His 1834 memoir enjoyed frenzied sales and prompted the first-ever "official" book tour for its enormously popular author. Down-to-earth, heroic, and independent to a fault, the real Crockett became lost in his own hype - and he's been overshadowed by a larger-than-life pop-culture character in a coonskin cap.Now, American Legend debunks the tall tales to reveal the fascinating truth of Crockett's hardscrabble childhood, his near-death experiences, his unlikely rise to Congress - and the controversial last stand at the Alamo that mythologized him beyond recognition. In this beautifully written narrative, Crockett emerges as never before - a rugged individual, a true American original, and an enduring symbol of the Western frontier.
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Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Frontier and pioneer life, Legislators, Nonfiction, Pioneers, Siege, 1836, Soldiers, United States, United States. Congress. House, Crockett, davy, 1786-1836, United states, congress, biography, Legislators, united states, Tennessee, biography, Alamo (san antonio, tex.), Frontier and pioneer life, southern statesPeople
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American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett
December 5, 2006, Berkley Trade
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0425210081 9780425210086
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American legend: the real-life adventures of David Crockett
2005, G. P. Putnam's Sons
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"BEFORE THE MYTH AND LEGEND of Davy Crockett surfaced there lived the real man, David Crockett, born August 17, 1786, "at the mouth of Lime Stone on the Nola-chucky river" in present-day Greene County, east of Knoxville, Tennessee."
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