David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
by John S. C. Abbott
Publisher: Project Gutenberg 2009
ISBN/ASIN: 1406802476
Number of pages: 144
Description:
Colonel David Stern Crockett (August 17, 1786 - March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician; usually referred to as Davy Crockett and by the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier".
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