David Crockett: His Life and Adventures. John S. C. Abbott
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John S. C. Abbott
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664635709
Table of Contents
The Justice of Peace and the Legislator.
Adventures in the Forest, on the River, and in the City
Crockett's Tour to the North and the East.
The Disappointed Politician.—Off for Texas.
The Justice of Peace and the Legislator.
Adventures in the Forest, on the River, and in the City
Crockett's Tour to the North and the East.
The Disappointed Politician.—Off for Texas.
PREFACE.
David Crockett certainly was not a model man. But he was a representative man. He was conspicuously one of a very numerous class, still existing, and which has heretofore exerted a very powerful influence over this republic. As such, his wild and wondrous life is worthy of the study of every patriot. Of this class, their modes of life and habits of thought, the majority of our citizens know as little as they do of the manners and customs of the Comanche Indians.
No man can make his name known to the forty millions of this great and busy republic who has not something very remarkable in his character or his career. But there is probably not an adult American, in all these widespread States, who has not heard of David Crockett. His life is a veritable romance, with the additional charm of unquestionable truth. It opens to the reader scenes in the lives of the lowly, and a state of semi-civilization, of which but few of them can have the faintest idea.
It has not been my object, in this narrative, to defend Colonel Crockett or to condemn him, but to present his peculiar character exactly as it was. I have therefore been constrained to insert some things which I would gladly have omitted.
JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.
FAIR HAVEN, CONN.
Parentage and Childhood.
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