Edited by Charles Aldarondo (aldarondo@yahoo.com)

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