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You might start with his autobiography. In factual terms, it’s not always trustworthy but it presents his story in the way he wanted it presented, so you get some insights into his character. It was also one of the first examples of the “campaign autobiography”. He wrote it to make some money but also to use it to get back into politics. The book was actually co-written by Crockett and one of his friends, a Kentucky congressman whose name I don’t remember.
I just looked on Amazon, and you can get a Kindle version of the 1834 edition of the autobiography for 99 cents:
Look at the Los Angeles Library page. They’ve got about 4 pages of suggestions.
I have:
“LIFE AND ADVENTURES
COLONEL DAVID CROCKETT,
OF WEST TENNESSEE.”
CINCINNATI:
PUBLISHED 1833.
as a free pdf.
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I was born in 1948, so the Disney Davy Crockett saga came at just the right time for me. I can remember being completely confused, as a child, by the lyric that I misheard (and I’m sure I was not alone) as “killed in a bar, when he was only three.”
The questions that this generated in my mind: How did he fight those indians, go to congress, go to the Alamo if he died at age three? Was he resurrected? Reincarnated? Was that a different Davy Crockett? And, not for nothing, what the hell was he doing in a bar when he was only three?
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7113805M/The_romance_and_tragedy_of_pioneer_life.
Chapter XXX details his life. Overall great book in general.
I just read a good book on the defenders of the Alamo that went into some depth about Mr. Crockett, but it was not devoted entirely to him. I don't recall the title, though.
Highly recommend.
The old books look like they're more fun:
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