Excerpt from An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Four: His Object Being to Examine the Grand Manufacturing Establishments of the Country, And Also to Find Out the Condition of Its Literature and Morals, the Extent of Its Commerce, and the Practical Operation of "the Experiment"Somebody told me once of a member of Congress, I think from Philadelphia, who said he found an old scrap of paper, wrote by some old fellow that killed him self, or was hung, or died of starvation, or some such nonsense, and spun an Indian path story out of it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.