Suggestions for Further Reading
Blair, Walter. “Six Davy Crocketts.” Southwest Review, 25 (1940), 443-62.
———. Tall Tale America: A Legendary History of Our Humorous Heroes. New York: Coward-McCann, 1944.
Crockett, David. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee. A Facsimile Edition with Annotations and an Introduction by James A. Shackford and Stanley J. Folmsbee. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1953.
Dorson, Richard M. America in Legend: Folklore from the Colonial Period to the Present. New York: Pantheon Books, 1973.
———, ed. Davy Crockett: American Comic Legend. New York: Rockland Editions, 1939. (See also Dorson’s “The Sources of Davy Crockett: American Comic Legend.” Midwest Folklore 8 [1958], 615-24.)
Hauck, Richard Boyd. Crockett: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982.
Kilgore, Dan. How Did Davy Die? College Station, Texas: Texas A & M Press, 1978.
Lofaro, Michael A. Davy Crockett’s Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters: Women’s Tall Tales from the Crockett Almanacs (1835-1856). Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2001.
———, ed. Davy Crockett: The Man, the Legend, the Legacy, 1786- 1986. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Lofaro, Michael A. and Joe Cummings, eds. Crockett at Two Hundred: New Perspectives on the Man and the Myth. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Meine, Franklin J., ed. The Crockett Almanacs: Nashville Series, 1835-1838. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1955.
Paulding, James Kirke. The Lion of the West: A Farce in Two Acts. Edited by James N. Tidwell. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, 1954.
Rourke, Constance. Davy Crockett. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934.
Shackford, James Atkins. David Crockett: The Man and the Legend. Edited by John B. Shackford. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1956.
TEXTS CITED IN THE INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
Davis, Richard Harding. The West from a Car Window. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892.
Garland, Hamlin, Introduction. The Autobiography of David Crockett. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923.
Groneman, Bill. Eyewitness to the Alamo. Revised edition. Plano: Woodware Publishing: Republic of Texas Press, 2001.
Kelsey, D. M. Our Pioneer Heroes and their Daring Deeds . . . Explorers, Renowned Frontier Fighters, and Celebrated Early Settlers of America, from the Earliest Times to the Present. Profusely Illustrated. Philadelphia: G. O. Pelton, 1883.
McCullough, B. W. The Life and Writings of Richard Penn Smith, with a Reprint of His Play, “The Deformed.” Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1917.
Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975.
Nofi, Albert A. The Alamo and the Texas War for Independence: September 30, 1835-April 21, 1836. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books, 1992.
Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920. 3 volumes. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927, 1930.
Remini, Robert V. The Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: Harper & Row, 1994.
Roosevelt, Theodore, and Henry Cabot Lodge. Hero Tales from American History. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, National Edition, Vol. X. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.
Schlesinger. Arthur M. Jr. The Age of Jackson. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1945.
Slotkin, Richard. The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890. New York: Atheneum, 1985.
———. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Atheneum, 1992.