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 represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the age of 49 at the Battle of the Alamo. Wikipedia
David "Davy" Crockett was the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born to John and Rebecca Hawkins Crockett. www.americanwest.com/pages/davycroc.htm
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CROCKETT, DAVID (1786-1836). David (Davy) Crockett, frontiersman, congressman, and defender of the Alamo, qv son of John and Rebecca (Hawkins) Crockett, was born in Greene County, East Tennessee, on August 17, 1786. www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/fcr24.html
Embodied as the King of the Wild Frontier , Davy Crockett became an icon of a rough, tough, and savvy expanding nation. www.biographyshelf.com/davy_crockett_biography.html
Bibliography Crockett, David. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee . Edited by James A. Shackford and Stanley J. Folmsbee. bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000918
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Davy Crockett. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett
