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(Crockett, Davy).

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(Crockett, Davy).
&#40;1786-1836&#41; American frontiersman; killed at the Alamo. Page from the February 21, 1834 issue of the New York Sun, with over two columns taken from the preface of Davy Crockett&#39;s biography, in which he responds to books, articles and stories about him, signed in print, Washington City, Feb. 1st, 1834. Crockett claims that &#34;<I>most authors seek fame, but I seek justice</I>.&#34; He says, &#34;…<I>obscure as I am, my name is making considerable fuss in this world…everybody seems anxious to get a peep of me</I>.&#34; Crockett was then a member of Congress from Tennessee.