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David Crockett: The Man and the Legend

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David Crockett: The Man and the Legend - Shackford, James Atkins, and Shackford, John B (Editor), and Lofaro, Michael (Introduction by)
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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 ...

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David Crockett: The Man and the Legend 1994, Bison Books, Lincoln, NE

ISBN-13: 9780803292307

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David Crockett: The Man and the Legend 1986, University of North Carolina Press

ISBN-13: 9780807841631

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