[Crockett, Davy]:

$4,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

"GO AHEAD!!" THE CROCKETT ALMANAC 1840 [wrapper title]. Volume 2, No. 2 of the Crockett almanacs, with the usual stories of mayhem and heroism in the West, graphically illustrated. The illustration on the front wrapper shows the great scout being startled by an owl while the rear illustration, captioned "The Way They Travel in the West," shows a man in a boat being wildly pulled by two sea serpents. Other illustrations include "Col. Crockett beat at a shooting match," "Account of a goose pulling," "Indian notions," "Ben Harding's account of a shipwreck," "The Heroine of Kaintuck," and "Col. Crockett and the bear and the swallows." The publisher's name is fictitious. Harding is a character who appears in the almanac, and is based on Ben Hardin (1784-1852), a Whig Congressman from Kentucky.

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