David Crockett certainly was not a model man.

But he was a representative man.

He was conspicuously one of a very numerous class, still existing, and which has heretofore exerted a very powerful influence over this republic.

As such, his wild and wondrous life is worthy of the study of every patriot.

Of this class, their modes of life and habits of thought, the majority of our citizens know as little as they do of the manners and customs of the Comanche Indians.
No man can make his name known to the forty millions of this great and busy republic who has not something very remarkable in his character or his career.