Mind like -- smart as -- sharp as -- a steel trap

I got interested in the phrase
"Mind like a steel trap".
Going back in time, before that was
"Smart as a steel trap"
and before that
"Sharp as a steel trap".
I guess that this was the sports announcer version of "Sharp as a tack".
Davy Crockett was the source of this circa 1835 quote (1): I was not slow in raising it to the counter,
the rum followed of course, and I wish I may be shot, if I didn't, before the day was over, get ten quarts for the same identical skin, and from a fellow,
who in those parts was considered as sharp as a steel trap, and as bright as a pewter button.
The "smart as" versions are seen circa 1860. I show this 1882 one (2) for the benefit of those who follow "chicks". "She's as smart as a steel trap, and pretty as a young pullet."

I just might mention that to the next appropriate young woman I meet, "Why you are as pretty as a young pullet."

As an interesting aside, I see it written that Davy Crockett employed ghostwriters. I thought that started much later.

(1)
Author: Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836.
Title: Life of Col. David Crockett, written by himself. Comprising his early life, hunting adventures, services under General Jackson in the Creek War, electioneering speeches, career in Congress, triumphal tour in the northern states, and services in the Texan war. To which is added an account of Colonel Crockett's glorious death at the Alamo, while fighting in defense of Texan independence, by the editor. Publication date: 1860.
Collection: Making of America Books
(see p244)
(2)

On the Nine-Mile, by Sherwood Bonner: pp. 918-928
Title:Harper's new monthly magazine. / Volume 64, Issue 384 Publisher:Harper & Bros.Publication
Date:May 1882
City:New YorkPages:978 page images in vol.
(see p 918)