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"Born on a mountain top in Tennessee ..." The statue of Davy Crockett is a gift to Neenah from businessman John Bergstrom.
The most popular Halloween costumes by year may surprise you! These are the most popular Halloween costumes by year Halloween ...
At the conclusion of the Civil War, the canonical poet Walt Whitman said that the “real war will never get in the books.” ...
The life and legend of one of Carthage’s native daughters, Belle Starr, is the focus of a new book. Starr, originally known as Myra Maybelle Shirley, was famous by the time of her death in Indian ...
Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park is located between Greeneville and Jonesborough just a few miles off Highway 321. It’s on the junction of Limestone Creek and the Nolichucky River, where Crockett’s ...
When my boy Coleman was four, he asked for — and got — a Davy Crockett jacket and a coonskin cap for Christmas. Back when Disney celebrated bad asses instead of fruitcakes, he had watched ...
Boomers gripped by the Crockett craze scooped up Davy lunchboxes, toy Old Betsy rifles, buckskin shirts and trademark fur caps. "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" ("Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee ...
I’m going to meet Davy Crockett — that’s his real name — on a trail at the north end of Utah Lake. It’s not the wild frontier, but he is the king in these parts. He’s the ultrarunning ...
Santa Anna answered Castrillón’s intervention in Crockett’s behalf with a gesture of indignation and, addressing himself to … the troops closest to him, ordered his execution.
Rick Landgraf talks with Andrew Forney, author of “ Davy Crockett and the Boy Scouts: The Korean War and Mismanaging Protracted Conflict,” featured in Volume 8, Issue 1 of the Texas National Security ...