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Davy Crockett #2
Sioux Slaughter
Determined to see the legendary splendor of the Great Plains, Davy Crockett sets out with only his rifle as company. The frontiersman barely survives a mammoth buffalo stampede when he gets anbushed by a band of Sioux warriors.
176 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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March 30, 2012
I had to pick my daughter up today which meant I'd be sitting out in front of the office building for a while, so I picked this little book up (at the library) to read while I waited. It says it's one the "Davy Crockett series". It apparently (based on the flyer in the center of the book) comes from something called the Leisure Western Book Club.
This is a very short little pulp read with large print and written on a level that I'd say anyone over a third grade reading level could handle, a sort of one sitting read.
By the way, if you let a third grader read it make sure they know that this is apparently a different Davy Crockett than we've heard of before... Davy and his sidekick Flavius Harris are just arriving at the Great Plains. Davy wants to see a Buffalo.
Yeah I know, we'll get to what you're probably thinking later.
Anyway while they're out there they run afoul of the Sioux (you probably got that from the title) and bad palefaces and have adventures and fights and battles do all sorts of rescues and good deeds and daring do. You know, just another day in the life of Davy Crockett...oh and Flavius Harris.
Of course David (Davy) Crockett never went west of the Mississippi till he headed for Texas, but then that kind of inconvenient fact never bothered writers during Davy's lifetime either. I remember a reference to a cheap book supposedly called The Adventures of Davy Crockett in the Rocky Mountains. It was I believe what would be called later a "Penny Dreadful".
This little book is frankly a throw back to the days of pulp and "Davy" is chosen to be the hero of a series of them. Were Mr. Crockett alive today I suppose he might be able to take legal action, but I doubt he would. Davy had a sense of humor.
It's a fast paced extremely light read that you can put away fast when you want some brain candy that's REALLY brain candy. I plan on looking for no more of them but if you like adventure westerns...and I mean REALLY fiction, pure imagination, then enjoy.
This is a very short little pulp read with large print and written on a level that I'd say anyone over a third grade reading level could handle, a sort of one sitting read.
By the way, if you let a third grader read it make sure they know that this is apparently a different Davy Crockett than we've heard of before... Davy and his sidekick Flavius Harris are just arriving at the Great Plains. Davy wants to see a Buffalo.
Yeah I know, we'll get to what you're probably thinking later.
Anyway while they're out there they run afoul of the Sioux (you probably got that from the title) and bad palefaces and have adventures and fights and battles do all sorts of rescues and good deeds and daring do. You know, just another day in the life of Davy Crockett...oh and Flavius Harris.
Of course David (Davy) Crockett never went west of the Mississippi till he headed for Texas, but then that kind of inconvenient fact never bothered writers during Davy's lifetime either. I remember a reference to a cheap book supposedly called The Adventures of Davy Crockett in the Rocky Mountains. It was I believe what would be called later a "Penny Dreadful".
This little book is frankly a throw back to the days of pulp and "Davy" is chosen to be the hero of a series of them. Were Mr. Crockett alive today I suppose he might be able to take legal action, but I doubt he would. Davy had a sense of humor.
It's a fast paced extremely light read that you can put away fast when you want some brain candy that's REALLY brain candy. I plan on looking for no more of them but if you like adventure westerns...and I mean REALLY fiction, pure imagination, then enjoy.
July 29, 2025
A very fun entry in this series, it begins with Davy's wanderlust taking him and his sidekick Flavius Harris across the Mississippi to the prairies. A buffalo stampede causes the two men to lose track of each other.
Flavius is an expy of Buddy Ebsen's character from the Disney version of Davy Crockett's life--he has comedic tendencies, but is competent enough to be viewed realistically as Davy's partner. He's also extremely tender-hearted in some cases. Flavius ends up bringing a lost (and dangerously playful) baby buffalo along with him, defending it from wolves and a grizzly bear while trhing to find a buffalo herd to which he can return the beast. In an "Androcles and the Lion" moment, the small buffalo ends up saving Flavius' life later in the book.
Meanwhile, Davy is captured by a tribe of Sioux who suspect he's part of a gang of slavers that have been kidnapping Indian women. He escapes, but soon encounters the slavers. When Davy and Flavius re-connect, they end up in a Last Stand situation defending four Indian women against those slavers.
There's a number of great action scenes, most notably the opening buffalo stampede and the tense, violent "last stand" at the climax. Both Davy and Flavius are fun protagonists and I look forward to future volumes in the series.
Flavius is an expy of Buddy Ebsen's character from the Disney version of Davy Crockett's life--he has comedic tendencies, but is competent enough to be viewed realistically as Davy's partner. He's also extremely tender-hearted in some cases. Flavius ends up bringing a lost (and dangerously playful) baby buffalo along with him, defending it from wolves and a grizzly bear while trhing to find a buffalo herd to which he can return the beast. In an "Androcles and the Lion" moment, the small buffalo ends up saving Flavius' life later in the book.
Meanwhile, Davy is captured by a tribe of Sioux who suspect he's part of a gang of slavers that have been kidnapping Indian women. He escapes, but soon encounters the slavers. When Davy and Flavius re-connect, they end up in a Last Stand situation defending four Indian women against those slavers.
There's a number of great action scenes, most notably the opening buffalo stampede and the tense, violent "last stand" at the climax. Both Davy and Flavius are fun protagonists and I look forward to future volumes in the series.
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