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Crockett's Devil
Davy Crockett has a Devil in his The 1813. The The Mississippi Territory. The Rebelling Creek warriors, under war chief Red Eagle, spread terror across the frontier, slaughtering settlers and peaceful Creeks alike. The Kill Red Eagle!
But Davy Crockett disagrees. He sees Red Eagle as the young nation's best hope for peace, and risks his hair-and his life-to stop the fighting.
Standing in his way
Can Davy best them all and bring peace to the wild frontier?
But Davy Crockett disagrees. He sees Red Eagle as the young nation's best hope for peace, and risks his hair-and his life-to stop the fighting.
Standing in his way
Can Davy best them all and bring peace to the wild frontier?
368 pages, Paperback
Published November 30, 2021
3 people want to read
About the author
Evan Lewis
20 books20 followersEVAN LEWIS fell under the spell of Davy Crockett at a tender age. He wore a coonskin cap and buckskin jacket. He had a toy flintlock rifle, a cap gun, a bedspread, a terrycloth bearskin rug, a light fixture, a saddle-shaped clothes rack and a waste basket. He had books, records, a cereal bowl, jig-saw puzzles and a plastic wallet with a fuzzy coonskin on it. He spent countless hours in the basement with an official Marx Davy Crockett at the Alamo playset. Yeah, he had it bad.
Years later, he took an interest in the real Crockett, collecting a stack of biographies, joining the Alamo Society and making two pilgrimages to San Antonio. And he acquired more stuff, of course. Cap guns, coffee cups, a wrist watch and more than fifty versions of ‟The Ballad of Davy Crockett.” Yeah, he still had it bad.
He often felt that he heard Davy’s voice in his head—sort of like a conscience—so he wrote stories about a modern day descendant of Crockett who suffered from the same condition. Three of those appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: ‟Mr. Crockett and the Bear” (May 2012), ‟Mr. Crockett and the Longrifle,” (May 2014) and ‟Mr. Crockett and the Indians,” (July/Aug 2016). He wrote similar stories of Davy’s grandson in the Old West, published hither and yon. And he wrote the adventure novel CROCKETT'S DEVIL, published in November 2021 by Steeger Books. He hopes you like it.
Along the way, Lewis received the Mystery Writers of America’s 2011 Robert L. Fish Award for his story ‟Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Feb 2010), about a man who believes he’s the reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes. Two more EQMM adventures followed: “Skyler Hobbs and the Garden Gnome Bandit” (Sept/Oct 2012) and “Skyler Hobbs and the Smarter Brother” (Feb 2014). His Alfred Hitchcock story ‟The Continental Opposite” (May 2015), an homage to Dashiell Hammett, was nominated for a Shamus Award and selected for THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES OF 2016.
Lewis has also written Introductions for several collections of vintage pulp fiction published by Altus Press, Steeger Books and Black Dog Books.
He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Irene and their five dogs, where he blogs about books, pulps, comics, films and other wonders of pop culture on Davy Crockett’s Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West, at davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.com. He’s now hard at work on BOWIE'S GOLD, an epic adventure of Crockett’s all-too-brief acquaintance Jim Bowie, soon to be published by Steeger Books. He hopes you’ll like that, too.
Years later, he took an interest in the real Crockett, collecting a stack of biographies, joining the Alamo Society and making two pilgrimages to San Antonio. And he acquired more stuff, of course. Cap guns, coffee cups, a wrist watch and more than fifty versions of ‟The Ballad of Davy Crockett.” Yeah, he still had it bad.
He often felt that he heard Davy’s voice in his head—sort of like a conscience—so he wrote stories about a modern day descendant of Crockett who suffered from the same condition. Three of those appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: ‟Mr. Crockett and the Bear” (May 2012), ‟Mr. Crockett and the Longrifle,” (May 2014) and ‟Mr. Crockett and the Indians,” (July/Aug 2016). He wrote similar stories of Davy’s grandson in the Old West, published hither and yon. And he wrote the adventure novel CROCKETT'S DEVIL, published in November 2021 by Steeger Books. He hopes you like it.
Along the way, Lewis received the Mystery Writers of America’s 2011 Robert L. Fish Award for his story ‟Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Feb 2010), about a man who believes he’s the reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes. Two more EQMM adventures followed: “Skyler Hobbs and the Garden Gnome Bandit” (Sept/Oct 2012) and “Skyler Hobbs and the Smarter Brother” (Feb 2014). His Alfred Hitchcock story ‟The Continental Opposite” (May 2015), an homage to Dashiell Hammett, was nominated for a Shamus Award and selected for THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES OF 2016.
Lewis has also written Introductions for several collections of vintage pulp fiction published by Altus Press, Steeger Books and Black Dog Books.
He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Irene and their five dogs, where he blogs about books, pulps, comics, films and other wonders of pop culture on Davy Crockett’s Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West, at davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.com. He’s now hard at work on BOWIE'S GOLD, an epic adventure of Crockett’s all-too-brief acquaintance Jim Bowie, soon to be published by Steeger Books. He hopes you’ll like that, too.
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December 13, 2021
A DISNEY-ESQUE ROMP THROUGH THE CREEK INDIAN WAR
What fun!
CROCKETT’S DEVIL is historical fiction in the tradition of Disney’s Davy Crockett series. Beginning with the Battle of Talladega (in which Crockett definitely took part), this novel details what adventures MIGHT have followed—and who can say they didn’t?
Charged by General Andrew Jackson with locating the Creek war chief Red Eagle (a real guy), Davy and his new-found friend Pennsylvania McCoy journey deep into Creek territory, risking their hair at every turn. Davy hopes to reason with Red Eagle and convince him to end the war, while Penn seeks only vengeance for his parents—massacred by Red Eagle’s warriors at Fort Mims.
Davy and Penn soon acquire an ally in Little Fawn, a Creek maiden seeking vengeance of her own. Together, they embark on a series of escapades involving a Revolutionary War hero and his private militia, a gang of the most brutal ruffians in the South, a thousand hostile Indians, and Red Eagle himself, who is not at all what they expect.
There are skirmishes, fights, daring rescues, clever escapes and near-death experiences, reaching a climax at the bloody Battle of Horseshoe Bend, which was effectively the Creek’s last stand (where we also meet Lt. Sam Houston). We even pay a visit to Davy’s own farmstead in Tennessee, where we meet his family and see him in action on his home ground. Along the way, our heroes are forced to thumb their noses at the orders of Andy Jackson, serving him well in spite of his baser instincts.
And as if things aren’t difficult enough, Davy is plagued by an inner demon—a temper that once unleashed threatens friend and foe alike.
The tale is told with large dollops of humor, and every time Davy speaks you hear the voice of Fess Parker. Plot twists abound, and even a bit of romance and personal growth, as Penn gains a better understanding of the Creek side of the conflict.
It’s Davy as we remember him from the Crockett Craze of the ‘50’s, in an adventure packed with grins. This would make a great movie!
What fun!
CROCKETT’S DEVIL is historical fiction in the tradition of Disney’s Davy Crockett series. Beginning with the Battle of Talladega (in which Crockett definitely took part), this novel details what adventures MIGHT have followed—and who can say they didn’t?
Charged by General Andrew Jackson with locating the Creek war chief Red Eagle (a real guy), Davy and his new-found friend Pennsylvania McCoy journey deep into Creek territory, risking their hair at every turn. Davy hopes to reason with Red Eagle and convince him to end the war, while Penn seeks only vengeance for his parents—massacred by Red Eagle’s warriors at Fort Mims.
Davy and Penn soon acquire an ally in Little Fawn, a Creek maiden seeking vengeance of her own. Together, they embark on a series of escapades involving a Revolutionary War hero and his private militia, a gang of the most brutal ruffians in the South, a thousand hostile Indians, and Red Eagle himself, who is not at all what they expect.
There are skirmishes, fights, daring rescues, clever escapes and near-death experiences, reaching a climax at the bloody Battle of Horseshoe Bend, which was effectively the Creek’s last stand (where we also meet Lt. Sam Houston). We even pay a visit to Davy’s own farmstead in Tennessee, where we meet his family and see him in action on his home ground. Along the way, our heroes are forced to thumb their noses at the orders of Andy Jackson, serving him well in spite of his baser instincts.
And as if things aren’t difficult enough, Davy is plagued by an inner demon—a temper that once unleashed threatens friend and foe alike.
The tale is told with large dollops of humor, and every time Davy speaks you hear the voice of Fess Parker. Plot twists abound, and even a bit of romance and personal growth, as Penn gains a better understanding of the Creek side of the conflict.
It’s Davy as we remember him from the Crockett Craze of the ‘50’s, in an adventure packed with grins. This would make a great movie!
January 22, 2022
Crackling with energy, and filled with high jinks and high spirits, Crockett’s Devil takes the reader on a rousing adventure through the Mississippi Territory and Southern Tennessee in the early 1800s. Take the derring-do of Robert Louis Stevenson and H. Rider Haggard, add the wry humor of Mark Twain, and you’ll have a sense of Evan Lewis’s rollicking style as a storyteller. But Lewis is not just a good yarn-spinner, he’s also a damn fine writer. His vivid portrayal of the American frontier achieves a high intensity in its detailed description. For anyone whose literary taste runs to historical adventure fiction, this very engaging novel more than delivers on the promise of its dynamic book cover art.
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