Stories By Jesse Author:Jesse Stuart This Hardback book is a 578 page historic-fiction based on true to life adventures of one David Crockett Whitt. He was born in 1836 the year of the Alamo. The dates and many of the actual happenings are true. The book will take you from Montgomery County Virginia to Tazewell County. Next you will travel to Greenup County Kentucky where Crockett ... more »spends a few of his formidable years. He returned to Tazewell County Virginia around 1850, reasons to be revealed.
You will be with Crockett in everyday experiences of the nineteenth century. You will be with him in adventure, friendship, love, hate, fear, sorrow, war, and peace. You will travel through many places and meet many people. Genealogy is revealed throughout the book and Crockett's descendents are listed at the back!
You will learn about building a grist mill, about shooting the old black powder muskets, and about Christian beliefs. You will travel with Crockett as he fights off the Yankee's during the War of Northern Aggression. You will go with Crockett to a prisoner of war pen, in Point Lookout Maryland. Then you will go with Crockett back home in Tazewell County to a humble re-beginning with his wife Arminda and the children.
As you read this collection you will feel like you are with Crockett, his parents, his grand parents, his brothers and sisters, as they live out their lives in nineteenth century Appalachia Virginia and Kentucky.
Also some interesting pictures and letters are included in this researched collection.« less