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 the country. Davy Crockett grew to manhood in a...

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 national imagination as a paradigm of the frontiersman,...

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 popular comedian James Hackett appeared in the title role...

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 both academic historians and popular culture producers and their...

Colonel David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician; usually referred to as Davy Crockett and by the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier". He...

'Be Sure You're Right, Then Go Ahead," that was Davy Crockett's old motto. But in my screenplay-in-progress, "Davy Crockett, King of the Mild Frontier," his new words to live by are, "Be Sure You're Leftist, Then Go Ahead." Alan Alda would be perfect for...

People are often irrational about their heroes. That's why the memoir of a Mexican soldier describing how Davy Crockett and six other Alamo defenders were taken prisoner and killed is viewed as insult rather than possible insight. The purported eyewitness account by Lieutenant...

Two experts in historical documents say they doubt the authenticity of a Davy Crockett letter that the Texas Historical Commission bought this week for nearly half a million dollars. Both questioned the handwriting, and one said the grammar was just too good to belong to...

House debate over the Iraq war did more than pit Democrat against Republican. It pitted ghosts of the past against each other.Historical figures, some long gone, were invoked in the debate Tuesday. A terrorist's dark words were enlisted. So were the musings of a poet....