A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett

'In the following pages I have endeavoured to give the reader a plain, honest, homespun account of my state in life, and some few of the difficulties which have attended me along its journey, down to this time. I am perfectly aware, that I have related many small and, as I fear, uninteresting circumstances; but if so, my apology is, that it was rendered necessary by a desire to link the different periods of my life together, as they have passed, from my childhood onward, and thereby to enable the reader to select such parts of it as he may relish most, if, indeed, there is any thing in it which may suit his palate.'

David Crockett (1786 - 1836) was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet 'King of the Wild Frontier'. He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution.