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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Haha!
I had a great grandfather raised by Boone, with the last name Duncan. He was the son of a man who was tortured and murdered outside the fort while Daniel Boone and others watched on. The purpose was to force a surrender or negotiations. Good thing the people of those times were built of sterner stuff than Biteme Biden.
I look forward to the inevitable Disney movie in which Crockett is portrayed the way he was always meant to be: as a proud LGBTQ+ woman of color.
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Back after the turn of the century, my family was close friends with the Crockett family. They had Santa Anna's fancy pansy jacket and the men would wear it as their wedding attire. At the Acton Cemetery, is the smallest TX state park which is his widow's grave. There is a statue of her and the thumb had been shot off a century ago so the entire hand has been repaired in recent years. Should have just left it alone as the repair is terrible. Cough, won't say who did it other than boys will be boys. Sadly, they're all long gone.
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