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DAVY CROCKETT'S OWN STORY AS WRITTEN BY HIMSELF; PUBLISHER: Longmeadow Press, Stamford, CT; a 1992 printing; 377 pages. Davy Crockett's legend casts a long shadow. In fact, his career was larger than life. From a childhood of poverty in rural Tennessee, he grew up to become an Indian fighter, state legislator, and colonel in the army. Ultimately he served three terms in the United States Congress, where his plain-speaking and homespun humor won him considerable celebrity. With native shrewdness he commented on domestic and international policy and became a voice for the common sense conservatism that was so much a part of the character of the young nation. No dust jacket