Popular culture transformedhis memory into Davy Crockett, and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardlyever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has cast a freshlook at the flesh-and-blood man behind one of the most celebrated figures inAmerican history. More than a riveting story, Wallis's David Crockett is a revelatory, authoritative biography thatseparates fact from fiction and provides us with an extraordinary evocation ofnot only a true American hero but also the rough-and-tumble times in which helived.