Record Col. Crockett's exploits and adventures in Texas wherein is contained a full account of his journey from Tennessee to the Red River and Natchitoches, and thence across Texas to San Antonio : including his many hair-breadth escapes : together with a topographical, historical, and political view of Texas written by himself ; the narrative brought down from the death of Col. Crockett to the Battle of... | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution

Col. Crockett's exploits and adventures in Texas wherein is contained a full account of his journey from Tennessee to the Red River and Natchitoches, and thence across Texas to San Antonio : including his many hair-breadth escapes : together with a topographical, historical, and political view of Texas written by himself ; the narrative brought down from the death of Col. Crockett to the Battle of...

Author:: Beale, Charles T Search this; Crockett, Davy 1786-1836 Search this; Dumas, Alex. J Search this

Physical description:: viii, [1], 14-216 pages, [1] leaf of plates portrait 19 cm

Notes:: "Ingenious pseudo-autobiography, purportedly printed from the manuscript found with the baggage of a Mexican general slain at San Jacinto."--Howes, U.S.iana, S654; Finished by Charles T. Beale, and edited by Alex. J. Dumas; First published 1836; Howes, W. U.S.iana, 1650-1950 (1962 edition), S654; SCNHRB copy (39088016461410) imperfect: lacking portrait plate; SCNHRB copy stamped on title page: U.S. Geological Survey Library [accession number] 27569, transferred [and] Bureau of Ethnology Library 1894 [accession number] 4041; SCNHRB copy bound in red library buckram, title in gilt on spine