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David Crockett: The Lion of the West by Michael Wallis,W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2011, $27.95. David Crockett spent only a small portion of his 49 years west of the Mississippi, but the man had “frontier” written all over him (even when not wearing a coonskin cap), and his death at the Alamo is …
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