David Crockett: The Lion of the West
“Wallis’ examination of the man behind the myth is both well written and engrossing.” (Booklist)“Michael Wallis is the master frontier story teller,  having chronicled everything from Billy the Kid to Highway 66. Now he’s told the tale of the real David Crockett as distinguished from the mostly mythical one. Davy (with a show biz “y”) Crockett did, in fact, die at The Alamo but he did not kill a bear when he was only three or wear a coonskin cap except in publicity photographs. That’s just for starters. But the truth has a way of being more interesting than the made-up, most particularly when in the talented  writing mind and hands of Michael Wallis.” (Jim Lehrer)“Like Crockett himself [Wallis] is a storyteller. The man who emerges from these pages is vivid, comprehensible, and, in the main, historically reliable. On a subject that has come to be dominated by acrimonious debate and posturing, such serenity has a lot to recommend it.” (Texas Monthly)