Davy Crockett

By Constance Rourke

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 015222517X
• ISBN13: 9780152225179
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great read! Davy is a corker!

Some have complained, over the years, that this book was more novel than biography. Okay, then... what a great NOVEL! This was in my elementary school library in Elgin, AZ, and if I'd studied my textbooks like I studied this, I might have been a MONSTER! Connie Roarke made a great book, and I bless her name for it! BONUS: Read how Davy was a true Small-government conservative in the Jacksonian (read that "Proto-Clintonian") big-government epoch! It's the true hero tale of the book! Al