(Boston: J. Fisher, [1840]). 12mo. 36 pp. Untrimmed. Stitched as issued. Light general edge wear throughout. Very Good. This copy was previously owned by Oscar Lewis (1914-1970), the renowned American anthropologist.� Oscar Lewis his Almanac is written in his neat hand on the cover. The seventh Crockett Almanac, with more stories of mayhem and heroism in the West, graphically illustrated. The illustration on the front wrapper shows the great scout wrestling an alligator; other illustrations include "Buy Log - Buy Nigger," "Incivility of a Bear," "A Regular Row in the Backwoods," and "Dreadful Massacre of the Whites by Indians!!" The almanacs ran from 1835 to 1856 and although none were written by the actual David Crockett, he certainly participated in the creation of the mythical Davy, which became the foundation for a large part of the myth and folklore of the frontier and the early American West. Crockett's biographer Constance Rourke states "the Crockett almanacs .made Crockett a legendary figure and a part of American folk- lore. � The stories they contained constitute one of the earliest and perhaps the largest of our cycles of myth, and they are part of a lineage that endures to this day, in Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Ozark Mountains. . Seller Inventory # ABE-1610717867446

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Title: "GO AHEAD!!" THE CROCKETT ALMANAC 1841. ...

Publication Date: 1840

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

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