Fess Parker, the thesp who became famous for playing frontier legends Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone ... the 1950s series “Annie Oakley” and “Death Valley Days.” He made other pics for ...

The late Dan Kilgore, a Corpus Christi accountant, was president of the Texas State Historical Society when he gave an address in 1975 about the circumstances of Davy Crockett's death. It was ...

In director John Lee Hancock’s 2004 film “The Alamo,” starring Billy Bob Thornton as Crockett, the scene takes place at dusk on the night before the final siege.

The Myth and Mystery Surrounding the Death of Davy Crockett (Republic of Texas Press, $18.95). He maintains the diary could be fake. Author Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) is also interviewed in ...

Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television’s Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao ...

Fess Parker, a televison icon to a generation of youngsters as Davy Crockett and later Daniel Boone ... family spokeswoman Sao Anash said. His death came on the 84th birthday of his wife of ...

Actor Fess Parker, who became every baby boomer’s idol in the 1950s and launched a craze for coonskin caps as television’s Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Fam… ...

(WKRN) — David ‘Davy ... Crockett died defending the Alamo in Texas on March 6, 1836. But, a more recent account shows he was taken prisoner and then executed, which has put his death ...

His death comes ... was Parker’s scene as a terrified witness in the horror classic “Them!” that caught the attention of Walt Disney when he was looking for a “Davy Crockett” star.