The life of Colonel David Crockett : comprising his adventures as backwoodsman and and hunter ; his services as soldier and scout in the Creek War ; his electioneering canvasses ; his career as congressman ; his tour through the northern states ; and his services and death in the Texas war of independence
A popular 1884 Philadelphia biography by Edward Sylvester Ellis, published by Porter & Coates, recounting the frontier life, military service and Texas death of frontiersman David Crockett for a general American readership. Its three colour plates show Native American figures and a meeting between General Jackson and Chief Weatherford, painted in a warm, slightly stylised manner that a designer could draw on for period costume, feathered headdresses and frontier scenes.
