Answer honestly, ... can any of us 'seasoned' folk think of Davy and NOT picture Fess Parker? Of course that was when Walt was running the store! Today? Won't even try to imagine it!
Posted on 08/18/2021 2:23:11 PM PDT by ammodotcom
David Hawkins Stern Crockett, fondly remembered as Davy Crockett, was born in eastern Tennessee to pioneer parents on August 17, 1786. Like many settlers of the time, the Crockett family continually pushed West, blazing into new territory (a trend Davy would continue to do with his own family) and by the time Davy was 12, the family had moved three times and was living in western Tennessee.
Known as an honest and hardworking boy with a good sense of humor, Davy learned to shoot with his father around age eight and enjoyed joining his older brother on hunting trips.
The boy who would become known as “King of the Wild Frontier” ran away from home at the age of 13, after getting in a fight at school almost immediately after he was enrolled. Not wanting to face the wrath of his father, or retaliation from the class bully he fought, Davy went on his own, taking up odd jobs including working as a farmer, cattle-driver, and hatter.
At 15, Davy returned home and indentured himself, more than once, to pay off his father’s debts. Unbeknownst to the country boy, young Davy’s humble beginnings were leading him down roads that would twist through politics, battlefields, and America’s heart – turning him into a folk hero of mythical proportions.
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Answer honestly, ... can any of us 'seasoned' folk think of Davy and NOT picture Fess Parker? Of course that was when Walt was running the store! Today? Won't even try to imagine it!
If he learned to shoot when he was 8, how did he kill a bear when he was only 3?
he killed the bear with his bare hands
I saw that movie way back in 1955! Last time I saw it was on tv not long ago and noticed several scenes had been cut from the movie.
His first meeting with Thimblerig in which he tried to Davy to play the shell game. Davy outsmarts him and wins.
The second, when moving of Jim Bowie into his room at the Alamo by Mexicans fighting alongside the defenders.
Gone.
If he learned to shoot when he was 8, how did he kill a bear when he was only 3?
It was the bear that was only 3!
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Hugh Glass was a pretty tough cookie, if not very likable.
True !
Look up Lewis Wetzel, said to be the perfect woodland warrior was better at it then the Indians.
There’s one I’ve been trying to get more information on - David Duncan !
He’s mentioned in some histories as one many looked up to and tried to emulate. However I can little else on him. He may have not survived the Ohio River Shawnee wars.
Killed the bar with a switch!
You know the rest ... :-)
David Duncan from Boones timeline or Crocketts?
Mostly Boone if not a little before.
Yeah I know .. There were a number of woodland heroes of the First Fronteir now mostly forgotten.
Here’s one Christopher Gist - He was key to George Washington’s early success and fame.
Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a poem entitled “Crossing the bar” but he doesn’t say what he did to make the bar cross, or mention what weapon he may have used.
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