king of the wild frontier

The Crockett Almanacs were a series of amusing tales about life in backwoods America that appeared between 1835 and 1856 and were "narrated" by Davy Crockett, the hero/frontiersman/soldier/politician from Tennessee. I've long been a fan of "old Southwest humor" (as this genre is known) and am delighted to find that someone has scanned several pages from these Alamancs and put them online. If you find these interesting you can read a dubiously-titled book on the subject or you can buy the whole set. Cost: $50,000-75,000.