But there is probably not an adult American, in all these widespread States, who has not heard of David Crockett.

His life is a veritable romance, with the additional charm of unquestionable truth.
It opens to the reader scenes in the lives of the lowly, and a state of semi-civilization, of which but few of them can have the faintest idea.
It has not been my object, in this narrative, to defend Colonel Crockett or to condemn him, but to present his peculiar character exactly as it was.

I have therefore been constrained to insert some things which I would gladly have omitted.
JOHN S.C.ABBOTT.
FAIR HAVEN, CONN.
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