Tall Tale
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...well into the 20th cent. One of the earliest heroes of this type of folklore, Colonel Davy Crockett of Tennessee, boasted: Im that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the...