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Crockett Almanacs

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 700+ words | Copyright

Crockett Almanacs, popular pamphlets issued irregularly by various publishers under the name of Davy Crockett or his “heirs.” About 50 appeared between 1835 and 1856. In addition to the usual features of the almanacs, these publications, printed at Nashville, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and other cities, contain tall tales based mainly on legends of oral tradition, concerned with Crockett, Mike Fink, Daniel Boone, and Kit Carson, as well as such mythical figures as the sea serpent of Cape Cod. The historical Crockett may have been involved in the original enterprise, and the almanacs, capitalizing on his spectacular death at the Alamo, contributed largely to his widespread popularity in contemporary folklore.

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