Dorson. Davy Crockett

Today's free book is Davy Crockett, American comic legend by Richard M. Dorson (1939). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).



Table of Contents

FRONTIER HUMOR AND LEGEND

THE LEGEND FULL-BLOWN
Birth of Crockett
Crockett's Father
Crockett's Mother
Crockett's Cradle
Infant Crockett at the Dinner Table 
Crockett Growing Up 
Likeness of Crockett When Eight Years Old 
Crockett's First Love 
The Colonel Swallows a Thunderbolt 
Crockett's Wonderful Escape Up Niagara Falls 
Crockett and Ben Hardin Make Their Escape from a Tornado 
Crockett's Opinion of a Thunder Storm 
Crockett's Original and Aboriginal Descent of Mont-Blanc 
Crockett's Morning Hunt
Crockett's Uncle 
Crockett's Aunt 
The Indian and Crockett's Grandmother 
Mrs. Crockett Beating Up Mike Fink 
Davy's Sister Doing Good 
Crockett's Daughters
Death of Crockett 

RING-TAILED ROABERS
"Go Ahead" Reader 
Speech of Colonel Crockett in Congress 
A Shooting Match 
The Bully of Salt River 
Col. Crockett Beat by Mike Fink 
Crockett and the Puke 
My Neighbor Grizzle
A Kentucky Team 
Riproarious Fight on the Mississippi River 
A Hard Head 
Lodging in Kansas 
A Wisconsin Squatter 
Hands of Celebrated Gougers 
Crockett Delivering His Celebrated War Speech 
Receipt for a Cold 

DOUGHTY DAMES
The Flower of Gum Swamp 
Colonel Coon's Wife Judy 
Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer 
Nance Bowers Taming a Bear
Katy Goodgrit and the Wolves 
Sappina Wing and the Crocodile
A Bear Skinned 
A Poundiferous Gal 
Crockett Popping the Question

BEN HARDING
The Early Days, Love and Courtship of Ben Harding 
Adventure with a Tar 

BEN HARDING
A Land Cruise
Ben Hardin's First Fight with a Varmint 
Ben Hardin and Old Coppersides 
Crockett and Ben Hardin, "Going Ahead" of a Steamer 
Ben Hardin Carrying On 

DAVY CONQUERING MAN
Crockett in a Fight with a Yankee
Crockett "Pinking" an Indian 
A Street Fight 
Stopping a Duel Among His Brother Congressmen
Settling A Puke 
A Black Affair 
A Big Lie 
Col. Crockett and the Squatter
Struggle with the Indian Chief "Wild Cat" 
Colonel Crockett's Trip to Texas and Fight with the Mexicans 
Crockett Playing Death with the Mexican Pirates 
Crockett Out-Diving the Pearl Divers 
Crockett and the Black Emperor of Hayti 
Crockett Among the Cannibals 
Crockett's Recipe for Cooking Bear-Steaks 

DAVY CONQUERING REAST
Crockett Killing Four Wolves at the Age of Six 
A Squabble with Two Bears 
Shaving a Painter 

DAVY CONQUERING BEAST
Adventure with a Rattlesnake 
Crockett's Account of a Bull Fight at New Orleans 
Crockett and the Boa Constrictor 
A Sensible Varmint 
Col. Crockett Grinning a Grizzly Out of Countenance 
Crockett's Pet Hyena 
Encounter with an Anaconda 
Crockett and His Pet Alligator on an Exploring Expedition
Crockett Taming a Panther
Crockett at Home

PEDLARS AND PUKES
A Puke
A Hoosier
A Sucker
A Wolverine
Heavy Timbered Land
A Corncracker's Encounter with an Eelskin
Gum Swamp Breeding
The Pedlar's Fright
Buy Log — Buy Nigger
A Miracle
Simon Shadbrim The Quaker
Ad vice to Strangers
A Pedlar Disguised
A Missourian's Opinion of His Neighbor
Crockett on the Oregon Question
A Methodizer Saving Souls

DAVY IN LIGHTER MOMENTS
A Bundling Match
Col. Crockett in the Parlor
Davy Crockett Losing His Speech
Colonel Crockett Delivering His Celebrated Speech to Congress
Crockett Boiling a Dead Indian
A Receipt for the Cholera
Lamed Courting
Davy Crockett's Dream
Drinking Up the Gulf of Mexico
The Tame Bear
The Colonel Treeing a Ghost
Crockett's Account of the Concert in Kansas