David Crockett: His Life and Adventures

by John S. C. Abbott

Overview

“David Crockett certainly was not a model man. But he was a representative man. He was conspicuously one of a very numerous class, still existing, and which has heretofore exerted a very powerful influence over this republic. As such, his wild and wondrous life is worthy of the study of every patriot.” —John S.C. Abbott, Preface, 1874

American historian John S.C. Abbott wrote David Crockett: His Life and Adventures (1874) as part of his American Pioneers and Patriots series. David Crockett (1786–1836) was an American folk hero, frontiersman, and Congressman representing Tennessee. Abbott describes Crockett’s life from childhood to marriage, from fighting Indians to his adventures on the prairie, and to his disappointing experience as a politician. More than one hundred fifty years after its publication, this is still a very readable and fascinating book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781776529711
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	02/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	358 KB

About the Author

JOHN S.C. ABBOTT (1805-1877) was an American historian, pastor, and writer. He wrote about Christian ethics and is known for his popular History of Napoleon Bonaparte (1855) and for his series on American Pioneers and Patriots, which includes Daniel Boone, Peter Stuyvesant, John Paul Jones, and many more (also available from Cosimo Classics). He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, also writer, and collaborated with him in his Makers of History series.