Born on a Mountaintop

Born on a Mountaintop by Bob Thompson

Called an exploration of the boundary between fact and fiction surrounding America's most iconic hero; a shrewd and heartfelt account of the author's yearlong journey through the thickets of Crockett lore; a splendid job of evoking the life, true and fanciful, of Davy, DAVID, Crockett; Highly personal and witty; written by a born storyteller...  I would agree with all of the above.

Thompson has taken 175 years of tales, tall or otherwise, historical facts and fictions, and the essence of the 'King Of The Wild Frontier' himself, as he has come to understand him, and written an easy and fun to read, modern take on each of the many hard fought over explanations for the life, deeds, and death, of Mr. Crockett, bear hunter, husband and father, wanderer and congressman from Tennessee.

I can't recommend this book enough for anyone who, like me, has caught a bit of the DC craze still in the air from Walter Elias Disney's genius production of 'Davy Crockett' in three segments of his 1954 'Disneyland' TV show, which he turned into an almost 3 hour long wide screen movie and several prequels that later aired on the Sunday night Disney show.

To any Boomer Generation kids out there: Did you have a Disney Davy Crockett coon skin cap, tent, rifle, bow and arrow, canteen, record, records, more records, etc, etc, etc when you were a girl or boy in the 1950's?

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