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Frontispiece: Portrait of David Crockett painted by John Gadsby Chapman,
Washington, D.C., 1834. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin)
Copyright 2011 by Michael Wallis
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wallis, Michael, 1945
David Crockett : the Lion of the West / Michael Wallis. 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-393-06758-3 (hardcover)
1. Crockett, Davy, 17861836. 2. PioneersTennesseeBiography.
3. LegislatorsUnited StatesBiography. 4. United States. Congress. HouseBiography.
5. Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)Siege, 1836. I. Title.
F436.C95W35 2011
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2011000216
ISBN 978-0-393-34227-7 pbk.
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Further praise for
David Crockett: The Lion of the West
[A] highly entertaining biography.... Wallis sketches a figure tailor-made both for his own era... and ours.
Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe
Like Crockett himself, [Wallis] is a storyteller. The man who emerges from these pages is vivid, comprehensible, and, in the main, historically reliable. On a subject that has come to be dominated by acrimonious debate and posturing, such serenity has a lot to recommend it.
James L. Haley, Texas Monthly
Enjoyable to read with... a helpful perspective on the cultural and political climate that influenced Crocketts accomplishments.... A deserving subject well treated.
Asa Bluenge, Bloomsbury Review
Even before his martyrdom at the Alamo in 1836, Crockett had become the proverbial legend in his own time.... Wallis examination of the man behind the myth is both well written and engrossing.
Jay Freeman, Booklist
Authoritative, fast-paced and very readable.... Michael Wallis adroitly separates fact from fiction and shows us both the flawed human being who led a colorful life and the symbolic figure who represented the poor and downtrodden as well as the countrys philosophy of Manifest Destiny.
Roger Bishop, Bookpage
Prolific author Michael Wallis has a special affinity for Davy Crockett.
Linda Braden Albert, Daily Times
Walliss well-documented take on the famous pop culture hero reads like fiction, enhanced by flowing prose in portraying a flawed but fascinating frontiersman.
Publishers Weekly
An excellent study.
Kirkus Reviews
A readable and folksy account of the actual facts of Crocketts life.... Readers will enjoy this biography.
John Burch, Library Journal
Lively and levelheaded... offers new detail about Crocketts often overlooked East Tennessee years.
Jack Neely, Metro Pulse
A delight to read.... Highly recommended to those interested in the frontier days of American history and in Crockett.
Benet Exton, NewsOK
A compelling look into the life and times of an outdoorsman turned politician who ended up as a martyr for Texas liberty.
Vincent Bosquez, San Antonio Express News
Wallis is a diligent, scrupulous historian.... He demonstrates a real love and understanding of the backwoods through which David Crockett roamed and rambled.
Matt Hanson, The Millions
Balanced and insightful.
Mike Easterling, Urban Tulsa Weekly
F OR S UZANNE F ITZGERALD W ALLIS FOR NEVER LOSING FAITH IN ME
AND
J OE S WANN, A TRUE SON OF T ENNESSEE
I TS HARD FOR ANYONE BORN, say, after 1958 to recall the Davy Crockett frenzy that swept America in the 1950s. So profound was the cultural inundation that no baby boomer can fail to recall this charismatic American heros name. Such recognition, to my way of thinking, is a good thing, but the veritable flood of misinformation about Crocketts life that resultedwhich I became aware of only later in life, and which in part has motivated me to write this bookcreated a mythology that continues to this day.
My first exposure to this inimitable American icon came, and I can vividly recall the date, on the frosty night of December 15, 1954, in my hometown of St. Louis. The ABC television network had just aired Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter , the first of three episodes produced by Walt Disney for his studios then new series, which had premiered two months earlier. Called simply Disneyland during its first four years, this anthology series, under a variety of other names, including, most commonly, The Wonderful World of Disney , was to become one of the longest-running prime-time programs on American television.
I was just nine years old that December evening, but I could have predicted the shows success. I was hooked moments after hearing the theme music, When You Wish upon a Star, sung by cartoon insect Jiminy Cricket from the soundtrack of the movie Pinocchio . Longtime Disney announcer Dick Wesson introduced host Walt Disney and, with some visual assistance from a flittering Tinkerbell, Uncle Walt unleashed the legendary frontier character Davy Crockett from the twelve-inch screen of our 1950 table model RCA Victor television set into our living room, as if from a runaway train.
I was a goner. Within only minutes the larger-than-life Crockett, clad in buckskin and wearing a coonskin cap, had won me over. My fickle nine-year-old heart pounded. The previous summer, at two separate events in a department store parking lot, I had shaken the hand of Hopalong Cassidy and the Cisco Kid, but now they were instantly demoted to lesser status on my list of heroes. Even Stan Musialswinging Stan the Man, the legendary St. Louis Cardinal All-Star slugger, whose name was etched in granite at the top of that listwas in jeopardy of being topped.
By the time that first episode ended, the image of Crockett, as portrayed by twenty-nine-year-old Fess Parker, was firmly ensconced in my psyche. I did not even consider staying up for Strike It Rich and I Got a Secret . I forgot about the promise of fresh snow and the good sledding sure to follow. Instead I headed straight to my room, where I pored over the World Book Encyclopedia entry for Crockett, dreaming of the swash-buckler with a proclivity for dangerous behavior, a most commendable quality for any red-blooded American kid.
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