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• Published on: 2005-12-29
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.22" h x
  1.19" w x
  6.28" l,
  
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Terrific read.
By Detra Fitch
***** David "Davy" Crockett was, is, and always will be one of America's greatest people. Anyone interested in knowing about his legendary life will be enthralled with this biography.Chapters include:PrologueOriginsRunawayThe Dutiful Son Becomes a Man"My Dander Was Up""Mounted Gunman"Trials on the Homefront"The Gentleman from the Cane""Neck or Nothing"Political RealityCrockett's Declaration of Independence"Nimrod Wildfire" & "The Lion of the West"A Bestseller & a Book Tour"That Fickle, Flirting Goddess" FameLone Star on the Horizon"Victory or Death"Smoke from a Funeral PyreEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndexSprinkled throughout the entire book are spectacular illustrations; giving life to this fascinating man's history. *****Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

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5 stars for Levy/3 for Crockett
By Boyd Hone
This review is of Buddy Levy's DAVID CROCKETT. But before I get to it, I'd like to say a few words about two other Levy books, RIVER OF DARKNESS and CONQUISTADOR, both of which are absolutely fabulous. The first tells of Pizarro and Orellana's trip down the Amazon, the second of Cortés invasion of Mexico. What strikes one in both books is the incredible suffering of the Spain invaders: Physical labor, dysentery, malaria, Indian attacks, drowning, continuous combat--they went through nearly every calamity the earth could offer at that time, including having their hair set afire by a volcano, only to return home (the very few that did) to find disrepute and additional wretchedness (Pizarro murdered after all he had gone through, Orellana and Cortés dying of exploration-related illnesses). In fact, they went through a Hell even unimagined by the imaginative Dante. These men were no angels. Pizarro had a group of friendly Indians tortured in order to learn about El Dorado, then he had them thrown to his dogs for food while still alive. The Indians weren't angels either. Entering a village, Cortés came upon the still-steaming bodies of 50 boys, their hearts piled on a platter, sacrificed in order that the sun arise the following day. Mathew White in his THE GREAT BIG BOOK OF HORRIBLE THINGS states that 1,200,000 boys were so murdered, this added to the sum of those martyred because of religion, superstition and other forms of ignorance since the beginning of time. Both books are MUST reading. Now for DAVIS CROCKETT: I just cannot fathom why he became famous. He killed plenty of bears, some Indians, he was elected to government posts, mostly because there was no other opposition on the frontier, he had his slaves harvest the cotton that made his fortune, he married one woman for love, a second to care for his two boys. Where's the Crockett of my youth that everyone sang about? À table he drank water from the finger bowl and accused the waiter of stealing his food when the waiter thought Crockett had finished. I couldn't care less about his table manners, but accusing the waiter of stealing is a bit much. Perhaps he's famous due to his death at the Alamo? My own books can be found on Amazon under Michael Hone.

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