by Davy Crockett. Softbound, 122 pages, 5-3/8" x 8-1/2". Filled with both adventure and hardship, this easy-reading autobiography established Crockett as a larger-than-life American hero, and introduced tall tales of the frontier to a popular audience. Written in 1834, two years before the legendary Tennessean met his fate at the Alamo, this book begins during Crockett's early childhood and ends just before he entered the U.S. Congress.