Wave high the banner

a novel based on the life of Davy Crockett

by Dee Alexander Brown

1999 367 pages eng

First published in 1942 and unavailable for fifty years, Wave High the Banner is the little-known first novel by one of the most influential writers on the American West. Brown skillfully weaves fact and fiction to recount Crockett's earliest apprenticeships and first loves, his marriage to his chil…