[Chapita]

Do you think the author of the book could have gotten by with this kind of falsehood in those times?

[Poohbah]

Do you think the author of the book could have gotten by with this kind of falsehood in those times?

Yes, quite easily--because they actually did. There was quite a "quote-manufacturing" cottage industry going in those days. Many statements attributed to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, and other great figures of American history in reality trace back no further than the pen of some Gilded Age writer.

[Eternal_Bear]

You bet! Crockett inspired lot of wild tales and books were written about them. He was more legend than a historical figure. One point, I don't think he was ever called Colonel while he was in the House. He was an enlisted man in the war of 1812 and left before his term of enlistment expired.