Davy Crockett's Almanack of Wild Sports in the West 1837, vol. 1, no. 3 Nashville, Tennessee, heirs of Col. Crockett, [1836]. 8vo. 12 full-page woodcut illustrations (plus covers, lacking pp 43-46), self-wrappers, front cover with woodcut portrait of Crockett, rear with woodcut illustration depicting "Fall of the Alamo-Death of Crockett," stitched as issued, soiled, extremities a bit frayed, small loss to woodcut on rear wrapper. Provenance: Library of the George M. Pflaumer Charitable Unitrust (sold Sotheby's, June 3, 1997, lot 12). The first posthumous Crockett Almanack, featuring a report on the frontiersman's death at the Alamo, along with the woodcut "Fall of the Alamo-Death of Crockett" on the rear cover. "It was the Crockett Almanacks which made Crockett a legendary figure and a part of American folklore..." (Grolier American Hundred 39). Drake 13411; Streeter sale 343; Streeter Texas 1194.
Davy Crockett's Almanack of Wild Sports in the West 1837, vol. 1, no. 3 Nashville, Tennessee, heirs of Col. Crockett, [1836]. 8vo. 12 full-page woodcut illustrations (plus covers, lacking pp 43-46), self-wrappers, front cover with woodcut portrait of Crockett, rear with woodcut illustration depicting "Fall of the Alamo-Death of Crockett," stitched as issued, soiled, extremities a bit frayed, small loss to woodcut on rear wrapper. Provenance: Library of the George M. Pflaumer Charitable Unitrust (sold Sotheby's, June 3, 1997, lot 12). The first posthumous Crockett Almanack, featuring a report on the frontiersman's death at the Alamo, along with the woodcut "Fall of the Alamo-Death of Crockett" on the rear cover. "It was the Crockett Almanacks which made Crockett a legendary figure and a part of American folklore..." (Grolier American Hundred 39). Drake 13411; Streeter sale 343; Streeter Texas 1194.
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