The Life and Adventures of Colonel David Crockett of West Ten... - 9781621905615

The Life and Adventures of Colonel David Crockett of West TennesseeAuthor(s): Michael A. Lofaro\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Tennessee Press, United States\nImprint: University of Tennessee Press\nISBN-13: 9781621905615, 978-1621905615\nSynopsis\nThe legendary Davy Crockett arose simultaneously with the emergence of the historical Crockett as a public figure, and once established, the man and the myth were forevermore entangled. The present work, his Life and Adventures [tel], ushered in a series of biographical and autobiographical books that thrust Crockett fully onto the national and international scene. This work, quickly retitled Sketches and Eccentricities, was the most outlandish. Its purported author, J. S. French, mixed two nineteenth-century genres of storytelling - the Humor of the Old Southwest and the sketch - all presented within a historical framework to create an early version of the King of the Wild Frontier. The Crockett encountered here is the marks.