

David Crockett
The Lion of the West
Author: Michael Wallis
Narrator: John Pruden
Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 05/18/2011
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Military Nonfiction
Synopsis
Born into a humble Tennessee family in 1786, Crockett never "killed him a b'ar" when he was only three. But he did cut a huge swath across early-nineteenth-century America—as a bear hunter, a frontier explorer, a soldier serving under Andrew Jackson, an unlikely congressman, and, finally, a martyr in his now-controversial death at the Alamo. Wallis's David Crockett is more than a riveting story. It is a revelatory, authoritative biography that separates fact from fiction, providing us with an extraordinary evocation of a true American hero and the rough-and-tumble times in which he lived.