Condition: Good: Good condition for a used book! Some wear. Illustrated pale blue/gray boards with blue spine strip; head tinted green. Clean; solid binding. Colored frontispiece; many black-line drawn illustrations throughout. Junior Deluxe Editions. See images for the condition of this book.
Blurb: Blending myth and reality, Constance Rourke aimed to get at the heart of Davy Crockett, whose hold on the American imagination was firm even before he died at the Alamo. Davy Crockett, published in 1934, pioneered in showing the backwoodsman’s transformation into a folk hero. It remains a basic in the Crockett literature.
Blurb: Blending myth and reality, Constance Rourke aimed to get at the heart of Davy Crockett, whose hold on the American imagination was firm even before he died at the Alamo. Davy Crockett, published in 1934, pioneered in showing the backwoodsman’s transformation into a folk hero. It remains a basic in the Crockett literature.