Davy Crockett #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDavy Crockett aids a group of forest runners being pursued by British soldiers, providing them with salt and vinegar to help them escape. After parting ways with the runners, Davy falls in love with a woman named Polly and they plan to marry, but duty calls when war breaks out at Fort Hughes. During the battle, Davy and General Andy Jackson lead the defense against enemy forces attempting to attack the fort, with Davy proving himself an invaluable fighter. The story concludes with Davy and his fellow soldiers preparing for continued combat as the conflict intensifies.
Davy Crockett and his friend Jed Turner arrive at Fort Pearson to join an expedition against Chief Blue Hawk, but General Harper orders them to stay behind and protect the women and children when the soldiers march out. When Blue Hawk's warriors discover the fort seemingly defenseless and move to attack, Davy devises a clever bluff to turn the tables without firing a shot. With quick thinking and a barrel of flour, he outsmarts the raiders and secures their surrender.
Davy Crockett stumbles upon a gang of forest runners—ruthless thieves preying on honest trappers—and drives them off just in time to save a band of workers from losing their hard-won furs. When Davy offers to camp with the grateful trappers for the night, his keen eye spots something troubling: one man's ungrateful manner and nervous glances suggest a spy in their midst. True to his nature, Davy takes his time to observe and plan before acting—and when the traitor makes his move under cover of darkness, the frontiersman is ready to turn the tables.
When Davy Crockett saves a mountain lion cub from a brutal bear attack, he never imagines the debt the grateful animal will repay years later—or that their paths will cross again when he needs it most. Separated by time and circumstance, man and beast are reunited in a desperate moment as Crockett fights his way through enemy territory to deliver vital reinforcements during wartime. A rousing frontier tale of loyalty that transcends the wild and the civilized.
Davy Crockett brings a group of folks to the famous Echo Canyon and invites them to test out the acoustics—but when a woman tries to get in the last word with the echoes bouncing back at her, the results prove more than she can handle. A quick frontier tall tale that trades on the kind of everyday stubbornness that even nature itself can't outmatch.
An Eastern dude named Caleb Hobbs arrives in the frontier town of Bear Creek with his new bride, only to find the place overrun by a ruthless gang led by Moose Elkins—and the aging Sheriff Benton too worn down to stop them. When the gang mocks his wife, Hobbs accepts the deputy's badge and faces down the ruffians with nothing but a shotgun and determination, forcing a final showdown on Front Street to prove the town can have law and order.
Kit Carson's restless father raised his family on the move across the frontier, but tragedy struck when a fallen tree claimed his life while Kit was just a boy. Years later, as a young apprentice in a saddle shop, Kit absorbed tales of mountain men, trappers, and the wild west—stories that eventually pulled him away to join a band of fur traders and learn the skills that would define his legend. This is the story of how Christopher "Kit" Carson became one of America's greatest scouts, plainsmen, and adventurers.
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