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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Davy Crockett is an American folk hero of mythic proportions, and was greatly popularized during the 50s and 60s thanks to Disney’s TV miniseries and major motion pictures. But Crockett was a ...

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