Davy Crockett has been America's best-known folk hero for at least 160 years. Thus informed biography by James Atkins Shackford first appeared in 1956, at the height of the television-inspired Crockett craze. As Michael Lofaro notes in his introduction,'Shackford faced the monumental task of rescuing a nearly unknown David Crockett from the obscurity caused by the popularity of the earlier legendary Davys and deepened by Disney.' Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.