Crockett, David (1786-1835)
An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East.

Philadelphia & Baltimore: Carey & Hart, 1835.

First edition, 12mo, frontispiece portrait bound opposite title; bound in full contemporary publisher's cloth with remnants of printed paper label on spine; with thirty-four page publisher's catalog bound after the text, 7 x 4 1/4 in.

Howes C896; Sabin 17565.

Although billed as "written by himself," Crocket''s text is sometimes ascribed to Augustin S. Clayton or William Clark as ghostwriter. Among other highlights, this was probably the first tourist description of the infamous Five Points neighborhood in New York, about which Crockett proclaimed "I would rather risque myself in an Indian fight than venture among these creatures after night." (See Anbinder, Five Points, page 26)