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 firong>stong> time since its original publication in , Wave High the Banner is the little-known firong>stong> novel by Dee Brown, one of the moong>stong> prolific, influential, and popular writers on the American frontier experience. Brown skillfully weaves fact and fiction to recount Crockett's earlieong>stong> apprenticeships and firong>stong> loves, his marriage to his childhood sweetheart, his numerous moves ever deeper into the wilderness, his turbulent years as a frontier politician in Tennessee, and his part in the doomed and bloody defense of the Alamo in Texas. Brown re-creates a complex and richly textured Crockett who was a soldier, lover, husband, father, widower, Indian fighter, hunter, humoriong>stong>, local politician, and champion of the common people, both white and Indian.