Portrait of Davy Crockett (1786-1836) by Miss Louise Goodwin of Nashville. 1877. (Courtesy of Tennessee State Library and Archives) Crockett was born in what is now Greene County, TN—it was ...

Born on August 17, 1786, backwoods statesman Davy Crockett's life has often been obscured by myth. Even during his lifetime, fanciful stories about his adventures transformed him into a buck ...

"Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee ... Almost immediately, we learn that “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” isn’t 100 percent true. Crockett’s official birthplace sits at the edge of the ...

For that was the day Davy Crockett was born in Greene County, Tennessee. He grew up to become a bigger-than-life outdoorsman, Indian fighter, and even a member of Congress, in no small part ...

Crockett was born Aug. 17, 1786. Most people know him as “Davy,” but by all accounts, Crockett disliked the nickname. Instead, he preferred his given name, David. According to the Tennessee ...

An excerpt of the book Born on a Mountaintop ...

“I wore a coonskin hat at a race and I discovered people knew who I was,” he said. “So I decided as a marketing ploy to start using Davy Crockett.” And a legend was born.

That series ran for six years, but it didn’t capture the public’s imagination the way “Davy Crockett” had. Fess Elisha Parker II was born in Fort Worth on Aug. 16, 1924, and grew up in San ...