Davy Crockett
Walt Disney's 1950s television adaptation of the Davy Crockett legend catapulted the coonskin-capped frontiersman into a national role model who has had an enduring appeal for bot...
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David Crockett (1786-1836), American frontiersman and politician, became during his own lifetime a celebrity and folk hero, particularly to Americans living in the newly settled midwestern regions of ...
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David Crockett (circa 17 August 1786-6 March 1836), celebrated backwoodsman and United States Congressman from Tennessee, authored A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett , an early autobiography mo...
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In 1833, the Honorable David Crockett, colonel of militia, bear-hunting backwoodsman, and member of the U.S. Congress, attended a performance of James Kirke Paulding's The Lion of the West. The popula...
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Perhaps no American traveler of the first half of the nineteenth century was better known to American audiences than David Crockett. Like Daniel Boone before him, "Davy" Crockett stood tall in the nat...
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Perhaps no American traveler of the first half of the nineteenth century was better known to American audiences than David Crockett. Like Daniel Boone before him, "Davy" Crockett stood tall in the nat...
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