"#2 Pencil Day"
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"Archeology Day"
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"Davy Crockett's Birthday" (1786)
| David "Davy" Crockett (1786-1836) was a frontiersman, orator and politician from Tennessee . After a youth spent developing his skills as a marksman, and working for farmers, cattle owners and a wagoner, he became leader of a battalion in the Creek Indian Wars (1813-14). In 1821, he was elected to the state legislature and from 1827 through 1833 he served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Defeated by a narrow margin while running for a fourth term in Congress, he left Tennessee for Texas in 1835 and immediately developed a strong attachment to his new home. In early 1836, he was among the 189 defenders who died at the Battle of the Alamo , fighting for Texas independence. Though we tend to picture Davy Crockett the way Fess Parker portrayed him on the popular TV show - wearing buckskin clothing and a coonskin hat - in reality, Crockett was never portrayed in art wearing a coonskin hat before that time. |