
David Crockett: The Lion of the West
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Narrated by:
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John Pruden
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By:
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Michael Wallis
His name was David Crockett. He never signed his name any other way, but popular culture transformed his memory into "Davy Crockett", and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. Best-selling historian Michael Wallis casts a fresh look at the frontiersman, storyteller, and politician behind these legendary stories. Born into a humble Tennessee family in 1786, Crockett never "killed him a b'ar" when he was only three. But he did cut a huge swath across early-19th-century America - as a bear hunter, a frontier explorer, a soldier serving under Andrew Jackson, an unlikely congressman, and, finally, a martyr in his now-controversial death at the Alamo.
Wallis's David Crockett is more than a riveting story. It is a revelatory, authoritative biography that separates fact from fiction, providing us with an extraordinary evocation of a true American hero and the rough-and-tumble times in which he lived.
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Informative but slow
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loved the way it is written
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Horned on a mountaintop in Hennessy Greenest ststevinbtgevkand of Magee
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Wallis book great reading
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Good book
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Pretty good but a tad unnessisarry
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The narrator did a fantastic job.
Great telling of a mans life
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Truth versus legend
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Author is very bias.
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A balanced account of an American legend
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