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1884 Davy Crockett Texas Creek War Alamo Battle INDIANS

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1884 Davy Crockett Texas Creek War Alamo Battle INDIANS James Bowie Sam Houston

“I know, that obscure as I am, my name is making a considerable deal of fuss in the world.”

― Davy Crockett

A rare mid-19th-century biographical account of the ‘Life of Colonel David Crockett’ by Edward Ellis. This book gives insight to the military and political engagements of Crockett but focuses heavily on his wars with Native Americans and Mexicans, particularly the Creek War, Texas War, and the Battle of the Alamo. Ellis also provides brief sketches of Sam Houston, Santa Anna, Rezin P, and James Bowie!

This 1884 edition is bound in a decorated green cloth.

Item number: #11778

Price: $350

ELLIS, Edward Sylvester

The life of Colonel David Crockett : comprising his adventures as backwoodsman and hunter, his services as soldier and scout in the Creek War, his electioneering canvasses, his career as congressman, his tour through the northern states, and his services and death in the Texan war of independence : to which are added sketches of General Sam Houston, General Santa Anna, Rezin P. and Colonel James Bowie

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, [©1884] First Edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages

viii, 271, [17]

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Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure

Size: ~7.5in X 5in (18.5cm x 12cm)

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