Crockett of Tennessee

by Cameron Judd

Book Overview

From humble beginnings in rural Tennessee to his heroic death defending the Alamo, frontiersman, adventurer, and politician David "Davy" Crockett embodies the spirit and ideals of the national... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553568566
• ISBN13: 9780553568561
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Domain
• Length: 518 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.1" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Crockett, by a Tennessean

The novel "Crockett of Tennessee" is a fictionalized biography of an uncommon American frontiersman who frankly wouldn't be remembered except that he took strong political stances -- very often in opposition with his own best interests. Cameron Judd has done a good job of sketching the real David Crockett (not "Davy," despite Walt Disney). In a marvelous scene in the book, Crockett meets President Andrew Jackson on a Washington City street after hours and argues with the President about just exactly who has shifted his views. Crockett carries a good deal of historical weight as the avatar of the Scotch-Irish pioneer who pushes back the American frontier, damn the consequences and the Redskins. Cameron Judd's Crockett is not nearly so simplistic. Like Judd's character, the real David Crockett opposed the relocation of the eastern tribes and refused to take a more conciliatory political position. He lost his last campaign to be re-elected to the U.S. Congress. In the wake of that campaign, he was quoted as having said, "You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas." Cameron Judd, a Tennessean himself (graduated Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, TN, if I remember correctly) has given us a novel of a person far more real than the frontier legend of film.

Crockett of Tennessee

Since we homeschool this book fit right into our curriculum for daily story time...the kids couldn't wait to hear what would happen next... I found myself sitting up late at night just to read on, as each chapter unfolded to provide dramatic insights about what the life of Davy Crockett may have been like...This book has creatively woven historical FACT with creative insight into the thoughts and life of this almost mythical man...After reading this, we had the opportunity to visit Crockett Tavern near Morristown,TN, and it really re-inforced the history that my children absorbed from this book. We had hoped to read "Boone, a Novel" also by Cameron Judd, but were disappointed to find that it was no longer in print...