John S C Abbott

"David Crockett certainly was not a model man. But he was a representative man. He was conspicuously one of a very numerous class, still existing, and which has heretofore exerted a very powerful influence over this republic. As such, his wild and wondrous life is worthy of the study of every patriot." --John S. C. Abbott, Preface, 1874American historian John S. C. Abbott wrote David Crockett: His Life and Adventures (1874) as part of his American Pioneers and Patriots series. David Crockett (1786-1836) was an American folk hero, frontiersman, and Congressman representing Tennessee. Abbott describes Crockett's life from childhood to marriage, from fighting Indians to his adventures on the prairie, and to his disappointing experience as a politician. More than one hundred fifty years after its publication, this is still a very readable and fascinating book.

"There is no one of the Pioneers of this continent whose achievements equal those of the Chevalier Robert de la Salle. He passed over thousands of miles of lakes and rivers in the birch canoe. He traversed countless leagues of prairie and forest, on foot, guided by the moccasined Indian, threading trails which the white man's foot had never trod, andpenetrating the villages and the wigwams of savages, where the white man's face had never been seen." --John S. C. Abbott, Preface, 1875American historian John S. C. Abbott wrote The Adventures of the Chevalier de La Salle and His Companions (1875) as part of his American Pioneers and Patriots series. Ren -Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687) was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He is best known for an early 1682 expedition in which he canoed the lower Mississippi River from the mouth of the Illinois River to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France.

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