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Boone, Black Hawk, and Crockett in 1833: Unsettling the Mythic West

Boone, Black Hawk, and Crockett in 1833: Unsettling the Mythic West

Lofaro, Michael A.

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralLiterary CriticismRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 1621904865
ISBN13: 9781621904861
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Oct 22 2019
Pages: 584
Weight: 2.40
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Although name such as Daniel Boone, Black Hawk, and Davy Crockett are familiar to most Americans, the historical, political, and literary contexts that produced the mythical images of these figures are unfamiliar to most outside academia.

In Boone, Black Hawk, and Crockett in 1833, Michael A. Lofaro compiles, annotates, and analyzes three (auto)biographical writings published in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1833--The Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone; Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk; and The Life and Col. David Crockett of West Tennessee--to reveal how the portrayals of Boone, Black Hawk, and Crockett revised the idea of the frontier hero. By placing them together in dialogue through the scholarly reediting of their texts, Lofaro demonstrates that these works exemplify, typify, and epitomize masculinity, burgeoning capitalism, and Jacksonian democracy, probe beliefs in race and class, and provide nothing short of a deep dissection of the frontier mentality of the antebellum period.

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