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| Introduction - Shuttles of a New Nation: The Private Lives and Public Actions of Ordinary Americans | ||
| Abraham Bishop: Teacher, Lawyer, Orator, and Politician | 1 | |
| John Wesley Young: Identity and Community among "the People Called Methodist," | 19 | |
| Trotter & Sons: Merchants and the Early West | 35 | |
| Hiram Hill: House Carpenter, Lumber Dealer, Self-Made Man | 53 | |
| Senator John Smith: The Rise and Fall of a Frontier Entrepreneur | 67 | |
| Arsene Lacarriere Latour: Immigrant, Patriot-Historian, and Foreign Agent | 83 | |
| Thomas Sidney Jesup: Soldier, Bureaucrat, Gentleman Democrat | 99 | |
| John Ross: Cherokee Chief and Defender of the Nation | 115 | |
| Peter P. Pitchlynn: Race and Identity in Nineteenth-Century America | 131 | |
| Hosea Easton: Forgotten Abolitionist "Giant," | 147 | |
| Laura Wirt Randall: A Woman's Life, 1803-1833 | 165 | |
| Rebecca Red: Anti-Catholic Agitator | 181 | |
| Margaret Eaton: The Politics of Gender in Jacksonian America | 199 | |
| Benjamin Tappan: Democrat, Scientist, Iconoclast | 213 | |
| George Washington Harris: The Fool from the Hills | 229 | |
| Index | 245 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Brad Phillips
reviewed The Human Tradition in Antebellum America on March 30, 2013
The Human Tradition in Antebellum America
Davy Crocket was such an impressive man that, after being executed soon after the Battle of the Alamo, he was still able to include details of the battle in his own retrospective autobiography. I'm guessing a ghostwriter or two had a hand here.
Irregardless, the frontiersman of American legend and lore lays out his life in a very homespun, fireside style recollectin'. Highly enjoyable stuff here! Old-timey yarn after old-timey yarn is woven into as colorful a tapestry as you could hope for from a mostly illiterate backcountry man of his own making.
His Own Story (which I think was titled My Own Story early on) starts with Crocket's boyhood and upbringing. This is just as interesting as the battles and woodsman stories of his later life, as it gives the reader a deeper understanding of what made the man.
No matter the age through out the timeline of Crocket's life, his descriptions are sparing but adequate. His narrative often merely touches upon a subject or whole swath of an age, but once he gets into a story, he gets into it! Lively accounts of battles with the Indians and 600lb bears are relayed with so much excitement it's as good as watching a movie!
Highly recommended to those already interested in this interesting man!
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