Riley Wolfskill
Barbers Hill Middle School North
Mrs. Short - 7th grade
“King of the Wild Frontier”
As the public seems to feel some interest in the history of an individual so humble as Davy Crockett, and as that history can be so well known to no person living as to himself, he has, after so long a time, and under many pressing solicitations from his friends and acquaintances, at last determined to put my his hand to it, and lay before the world on which they may at least rely as being true. And seeking no ornament or coloring for a plain, simple tale of truth, threw aside all hypocritical and fawning apologies, and, according to his own maxim, just "go ahead." Where Davy Crockett is not known, he might, perhaps, gain some little credit by having thrown around this volume some of the flowers of learning; but where known, the vile cheatery would soon be detected, and like the foolish jackdaw, that with a borrowed tail attempted to play the peacock, Davy Crockett should be justly robbed of pilfered ornaments, and sent forth to strut…show more content… By the Creeks, David’s grandfather and grandmother Crockett were both murdered, in their own house, and on the very spot of ground where Rogersville, in Hawkins county, now stands. At the same time, the Indians wounded Joseph Crockett, a brother to his father, by a ball, which broke his arm; and took James a prisoner, who was still a younger brother than Joseph, and who, from natural defects, was less able to make his escape, as he was both deaf and dumb. He remained with them for seventeen years and nine months, when he was discovered and recollected by my father and his eldest brother, William Crockett; and was purchased by them from an Indian trader, at a price which do not now remember; but so it was, that he was delivered up to them, and they returned him to his
