David Crockett - His Life and Adventures

The Project Gutenberg EBook of David Crockett: His Life and Adventures, by John S. C. Abbott This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: David Crockett: His Life and Adventures Author: John S. C. Abbott Posting Date: August 1, 2009 [EBook #4355] Release Date: August, 2003 First Posted: January 14, 2002 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DAVID CROCKETT: LIFE, ADVENTURES *** Produced by Charles Aldarondo. HTML version by Al Haines. AMERICAN PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS. DAVID CROCKETT: HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES BY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT ILLUSTRATED. PREFACE. 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. Of this class, their modes of life and habits of thought, the majority of our citizens know as little as they do of the manners and customs of the Comanche Indians. No man can make his name known to the forty millions of this great and busy republic who has not something very remarkable in his character or his career.