Although name such as Daniel Boone, Black Hawk, and "Davy" Crockett
are familiar to most Americans, the historical, political, and
literary contexts that produced the mythical images of these
figures are unfamiliar to most outside academia. In Boone, Black
Hawk, and Crockett in 1833,Michael A. Lofaro compiles, annotates,
and analyzes three (auto)biographical writings published in
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1833-The Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone;
Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk; and The Life and
Col. David Crockett of West Tennessee-to reveal how the portrayals
of Boone, Black Hawk, and Crockett revised the idea of the
"frontier hero." By placing them together in dialogue through the
scholarly reediting of their texts, Lofaro demonstrates that these
works exemplify, typify, and epitomize masculinity, burgeoning
capitalism, and Jacksonian democracy, probe beliefs in race and
class, and provide nothing short of a deep dissection of the
frontier mentality of the antebellum period. Additionally, the
reception of these works influenced the ways in which
nineteenth-century Americans understood and perceived manifest
destiny, the removal of Native Americans from their homelands, to
the west of the Mississippi River, and the waning concept of
"American frontier." With its great scope and insight, this
publication creates connections among many academic disciplines,
including colonial America, Jacksonian America, Native American
studies, as well as literary and folklore studies.
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