Wave High the Banner: A Novel Based on the Life of Davy
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brown, Dee, PUBLISHER: University of New Mexico Press, Reissued for the first time since its original publication in , Wave High the Bong>anong>ner is the little-known first novel by Dee Brown, one of the most prolific, influential, ong>anong>d popular writers on the Americong>anong> frontier experience. Brown skillfully weaves fact ong>anong>d fiction to recount Crockett's earliest apprenticeships ong>anong>d first loves, his marriage to his childhood sweetheart, his numerous moves ever deeper into the wilderness, his turbulent years as a frontier politiciong>anong> in Tennessee, ong>anong>d his part in the doomed ong>anong>d bloody defense of the Alamo in Texas. Brown re-creates a complex ong>anong>d richly textured Crockett who was a soldier, lover, husbong>anong>d, father, widower, Indiong>anong> fighter, hunter, humorist, local politiciong>anong>, ong>anong>d champion of the common people, both white ong>anong>d Indiong>anong>.