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Davy Crockett's own story as written by himself; the autobiography of America's great folk hero. Illustrated by Milton Glaser. NY: Citadel P, 1955. F436 .C9; The Crockett Almanacs, 1835-56.

| Top |Selected Bibliography

Albanese, Catherine L. "Savage, Sinner, and Saved: Davy Crockett, Camp Meetings, and the Wild Frontier." American Quarterly 33.5 (Wint 1981): 482-501.

Beals, Frank L. Davy Crockett. Evanston, Ill.: Row, Peterson, 1960. Juv / Fiction B366 d

Blair, Walter. "Americanized Comic Braggarts." Critical Inquiry 4 (1977): 331-49.

Clark, William B. "Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas: Death and Transfiguration." Studies in American Humor 1.1 (Jun 1982): 66-76.

Cummings, Joe, and Lofaro, Michael A. eds. Crockett at two hundred: new perspectives on the man and the myth. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1989. F436 .C95 C76

Cummings, Joe. "Celebrating Crockett in Tennessee." 67-82.

Hauck, Richard B. "The Real Davy Crocketts: Creative Autobiography and the Invention of His Legend." 179-91.

Hutton, Paul A. "Davy Crockett: An Exposition on Hero Worship." 20-41.

Jamborsky, William E. "Davy Crockett and the Tradition of the Westerner in American Cinema." 97-113.

Kilgore, Dan. "Why Davy Didn't Die." 7-19.

Lofaro, Michael A. "Riproarious Shemales: Legendary Women in the Tall Tale World of the Davy Crockett Almanacs." 114-52.

Montgomery, Michael. "David Crockett and the Rhetoric of Tennessee Politics." 42-66.

Seelye, John. "Cats, Coons, Crocketts, and Other Furry Critters: Or, Why Davy Wears an Animal for a Hat." 153-78.

Tanenbaum, Miles. "Following Davy's Trail: A Crockett Bibliography." 192-241.

Wolfe, Charles K. "Crockett and Nineteenth-Century Music." 83-96.

Dorson, Richard M. ed. Davy Crockett, American comic legend. NY: Spiral P, 1939. PS461.C7 D6

Fischman, Lisa A. "Coonskin Fever: Frontier Adventures in Postwar American Culture." DAI 57.8 (Feb 1997): DA9700936.

Griffin, Sean. "Kings of the Wild Backyard: Davy Crockett and Children's Space." Kids' Media Culture. Ed. Marsha Kinder. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1999. 102-21.

Hauck, Richard B. Crockett: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982.

Jones, Jesse A. "'Say It Ain't True, Davy!': The Real David Crockett vs. the Backwoodsman in Us All." Appalachian Journal 15.1 (Fall 1987): 45-51.

| Top | Krupat, Arnold. "American Autobiography: The Western Tradition." Georgia Review 35.2 (Sumr 1981): 307-17.

Lofaro, Michael A. "From Boone to Crockett: The Beginnings of Frontier Humor." Mississippi Folklore Register 14.2 (Fall 1980): 57-74.

- - -. ed. Davy Crockett : the man, the legend, the legacy, 1786-1986. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1985. GR105.37 .D3 D38

Albanese, Catherine L. "Davy Crockett and the Wild Man; or, The Metaphysics of the Longue duree." 80-101.

Hauck, Richard B. "The Man in the Buckskin Hunting Shirt: Fact and Fiction in the Crockett Story." 3-20.

- - -. "Making It All Up: Davy Crockett in the Theater." 102-23.

King, Margaret J. "The Recycled Hero: Walt Disney's Davy Crockett." 137-58.

Lofaro, Michael A. "The Hidden 'Hero' of the Nashville Crockett Almanacs." 46-79.

Wolfe, Charles K. "Davy Crockett Songs: Minstrels to Disney." 159-90.

- - -. "Davy Crockett, David Crockett, and Me: A Personal Journey through Legend into History." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 56.3 (1994): 96-106.

Mayer, Edwin J. Sunrise in my pocket; or, The last days of Davy Crockett, an American saga. NY: J. Mesner, 1941. PS8525 .A9665 S8

Thorne, Creath S. "The Crockett Almanacs: What Makes a Tall Tale Tall?." Southern Folklore Quarterly 44 (1980): 93-104.

Wolfe, Charles K. "Davy Crockett's Dance and Old Hickory's Fandango." Devil's Box 16.3 (Sep 1, 1982): 34-41.

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