David crockett biography summary of winston
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Who was Davy Crockett?
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Who Was Davy Crockett?
(Who Was?)
Description
"An illustrated biography of famous frontiersman Davy Crockett, who died at the Alamo"--
Publication date
October 03,
Classification
Non-fiction
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
BISAC categories
JNF - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/19th Century
JNF - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
JNF - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/Colonial & Revolutionary
Library of Congress categories
United States
Frontier and pioneer life
Tennessee
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiograp
JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States
Pioneers
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Adventure & Adventurers
Legislators
Crockett, Davy
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NOTES
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1 Lyrics by Tom Blackburn, music by George Bruns, copyright , Wonderland Music Co.
2 David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, ),
3 Ibid., – Some sources contend that Crockett’s story about climbing a tree and sliding down to stay warm was pure invention—one of his exaggerated yarns later picked up and reprinted in almanacs and newspapers. Others disagree and believe the story has the ring of truth.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.,
6 J. H. Grime, Recollections of a Long Life (Lebanon, TN: ), 8. Rev. John Harvey Grime, a prominent Baptist preacher and religious leader throughout the South, recalled that as a boy in Tennessee he had a hunting dog named after Davy Crockett and another he named Jolar after Crockett’s favorite dog.
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