The state is also known for important historical figures, including the “King of the Wild Frontier”: David “Davy” Crockett. One of the most famous Tennesseans, Crockett cemented his legacy ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — David ‘Davy’ Crockett was not only a real-life folk hero but also a model for the all-American frontiersmen, and one of the most famous Tennesseans. The “King of ...

Davy Crockett is an American folk hero of mythic ... in the Tennessee state legislature since 1821. He was certainly famous while he lived, but plays, songs, and tall tales transformed him into ...

Please contact us at [email protected] for help. In 1955, the frontiersman Davy Crockett became the most famous man in America, more than a century after his death at the Alamo. This week ...

On January 9, 1836, Davy Crockett sat down to write a letter ... Governor Rick Perry announced that Crockett’s famous epistle had reappeared. What’s more, the Texas Historical Commission ...

Fess Parker, the thesp who became famous for playing frontier legends Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone and went on to become a successful real estate developer, died Thursday at his home near Los ...

but not on “a mountaintop in Tennessee”—contrary to the first line of “The Ballad of Davy Crockett,” the song made famous by Disney TV series in the mid-1950s. “He was born on the ...

Ted Cruz and his efforts to defund Obamacare, he stood on the Senate floor and criticized Tennesseans who stand on principle including one of the most famous…Davy Crockett. I am in the fight for ...

When nobody knows how famous you are, it's great to have a ... Who is a personnel director more likely to call back, Davy Crockett's great grandson or the great grandson of Joe Nobody?

It's a story with deep ties to this state. Actor William Moseley is playing Davy Crockett. "I want this film to be an action/adventure, swashbuckling Crockett," Moseley smiled. "It's a movie that ...