David Crockett: The Man and the Legend

ISBN-13: 9780803292307 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 338 str.

James Atkins Shackford; John B. Shackford; Michael A. Lofaro

Opis

Davy Crockett has been America's best-known folk hero for at least 160 years. This informed biography by James Atkins Shackford first appeared in 1956, at the height of the television-inspired Crockett craze. As Michael Lofaro notes in his introduction, "Shackford faced the monumental task of rescuing a nearly unknown David Crockett from the obscurity caused by the popularity of the earlier legendary Davys and deepened by Disney." He succeeded memorably, restoring David Crockett of Tennessee, a true pioneer and colorful figure even without romantic trappings.