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The massacre at Fort Mims is what spurred young Davy Crockett to leave his family and become a volunteer scout in the military campaign between American militias and the Creek Indians. It was while serving in this capacity that Crockett earned his reputation as a first-rate scout, which added to his already established reputation as a crack shot. Like many volunteers serving in militias, Crockett also had to concern himself with protecting his wife,...

Excerpt: In the following pages I have endeavoured to give the reader a plain, honest, homespun account of my state in life, and some few of the difficulties which have attended me along its journey, down to this time. I am perfectly aware, that I have related many small and, as I fear, uninteresting circumstances; but if so, my apology is, that it was rendered necessary by a desire to link the different periods of my life together, as they have passed,...

Davy Crockett was a popular American frontiersman. People told wild stories about his strength and skills. Some of these stories became legends. Learn more in Davy Crockett, one of the titles in the Folk Heroes series.

Details the lives of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis, and the Alamo.

A biography of the famous woodsman and hunter who could snuff a candle with a bullet, was hated by every bear in the county, and was known by politicians as "the gamecock of the wilderness."

Davy discovers that his new neighbors are being terrorized by a group of highwaymen. Never one to stand by while an injustice takes place, Davy becomes the town magistrate, and he and Georgie set out to catch the bandits.