Even as a pup Davy Crockett always delighted to be in the very thickest ofdanger. In his own inimitable style he describes his earliest days inTennessee his two... » 

Even as a pup Davy Crockett always delighted to be in the very thickest ofdanger. In his own inimitable style he describes his earliest days inTennessee his two marriages his career as an Indian fighter his bear huntsand his electioneering. His reputation as a bar hunter he killed 105 in oneseason sent him to Congress and he was voted in and out as the price ofcotton and his relations with the Jacksonians rose and fell. In 1834 whenthis autobiography appeared Davy Crockett was already a folk hero with an eyeon the White House. But a year later he would lose his seat in Congress andturn toward Texas and ultimately the Alamo. «