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Frontier

David Crockett

By Brion McClanahan

This essay is taken in part from the chapter “Frontiersman” in Brion McClanahan’s Politically Incorrect Guide to Real American Heroes (Regnery, 2012) and is presented in honor of Crockett’s birthday, August 17.

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