Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee

Paul Andrew Hutton introduces this Bison Book edition of Davy Crockett's own story. Hutton, a professor of history at the University of New Mexico, is the author of the prize-winning Phil Sheridan and His Army, also a Bison Book.

"One of the primary social documents of America. .. [a] 'classic in homespun.' "—J. Frank Dobie, Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest "Davy Crockett was, in essence, a nineteenth-century celebrity—perhaps the first American to make a living portraying his own fanciful image. . . . He is that rarest of American icons: a legendary hero who turns out, after all, to have been more or less a decent, admirable human being."—Andrew Hutton in Texas Monthly