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His hunting and exploration adventures, his service as a soldier under Andrew Jackson, his rise politics to the United States Congress, his incessant search for \"elbow room\" that took him to Texas-these were the real fabric of a heroic life. In writing of the historical Crockett, Groneman dispels the myths and discovers the genuine hero beneath them. 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