20mm DAVY CROCKETT • INDIAN SCOUT pin Circa 1950’s Button Pin-back Litho Alamo.

David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is often referred to in popular culture as the "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution.

One of Crockett's sayings, which were published in almanacs between 1835 and 1856 (along with those of Daniel Boone and Kit Carson), was: "Always be sure you are right, then go ahead."

While serving in the United States House of Representatives, Crockett became a Freemason. He entrusted his masonic apron to a friend in Tennessee before leaving for Texas, and it was inherited by the friend's descendant in Kentucky.

In 1967, the U.S. Postal Service issued a 5-cent stamp commemorating Davy Crockett.

Tennessee

David Crockett Birthplace State Park, Greene County

David Crockett State Park, Lawrence County

Crockett County, Tennessee; its county seat is Alamo

David Crockett High School, Jonesborough

Texas

Crockett County

Crockett, Texas, Houston County

Crockett High School, Austin independent school District

Davy Crockett Lake, Fannin County

Davy Crockett Loop, Prairies and Pineywoods Wildlife Trail – East

Crockett Middle School, Amarillo

Davy Crockett National Forest, Angelina County

Davy Crockett School, Dallas independent school District

Crockett Elementary School, Abilene independent school District, Abilene, Texas (closed 2002)

Crockett Street, a major thoroughfare in Downtown San Antonio

Fort Crockett, Galveston County

Alamo Cenotaph

Miscellaneous

M28 Davy Crockett Weapon System: a small Nuclear weapons system, the smallest developed by the U.S. which could be fired from a light vehicle, or from a tripod mounted launcher.

Crockett park north of downtown San Antonio

Monuments

Alamo Cenotaph, San Antonio, sculptor Pompeo Coppini, west panel of the Cenotaph features a Crockett statue and a statue of William B. Travis in front of other Alamo defenders

David Crockett Statue, Ozona, Texas, sculptor William M. McVey

LIfe-size statue Colonel David Crockett, Public Square, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, W. M. Dean Marble Company of Columbia

Walt Disney adapted Crockett's stories into a television miniseries titled Davy Crockett, which aired in 1954 and 1955 on Walt Disney's Disneyland. The series popularized the image of Crockett, portrayed by Fess Parker, wearing a coonskin cap, and originated the song "The Ballad of Davy Crockett". The first three parts of the series were edited into a feature-length movie for theaters.

Crockett's stories were adapted by French animation studio Studios Animage into a 1994 animated series titled Davy Crockett.

A 2009 episode of MythBusters tested whether Crockett could split a bullet in half on the blade of an ax 40 yards (37 m) away, and concluded that it would indeed be possible to do so.[183][better source needed]

Film

In films, Crockett has been played by:

Charles K. French, Davy Crockett – In Hearts United (1909), silent

Hobart Bosworth, Davy Crockett (1910), silent

Dustin Farnum, Davy Crockett (1916), silent

Cullen Landis (Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo, 1926, silent)

Jack Perrin (The Painted Stallion, 1937)

Lane Chandler (Heroes of the Alamo, 1937)

Robert Barrat (Man of Conquest, 1939)

Trevor Bardette (The Man from the Alamo, 1953)

Arthur Hunnicutt (The Last Command, 1955)

Fess Parker (Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, 1955, and Davy Crockett and the River Pirates, 1956, both on Walt Disney's Disneyland)

James Griffith (The First Texan, 1956)

John Wayne (The Alamo, 1960)

Brian Keith (The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory, 1987)

Merrill Connally (Alamo: The Price of Freedom, 1988)

Johnny Cash (Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder, 1988)

Tim Dunigan (Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder, Davy Crockett: A Natural Man, Davy Crockett: Guardian Spirit, Davy Crockett: Letter to Polly, 1988–1989)

David Zucker (The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, 1991 [a very small cameo role])

John Schneider (James A. Michener's Texas, 1994)

Scott Wickware (Dear America: A Line in the Sand, 2000)

Justin Howard (The Anarchist Cookbook, 2002)

Billy Bob Thornton (The Alamo, 2004)"

Theatre

Davy Crockett (1872), popular touring play of its time, by Frank Murdoch

Davy Crockett, musical play (unfinished), January to April 1938, Kurt Weill

Prose fiction

Crockett appears in at least two short alternate history works: "Chickasaw Slave" by Judith Moffett in Mike Resnick's anthology Alternate Presidents (1992), where Crockett is the seventh President of the United States, and "Empire" by William Sanders in Harry Turtledove's anthology Alternate Generals II (2002) where Crockett fights for Emperor Napoleon I of Louisiana in a conflict analogous to the War of 1812. Crockett is also a character in Gore Vidal's novel Burr as a congressman from Tennessee.

Comics

Columbia Features syndicated a comic strip, Davy Crockett, Frontiersman, from June 20, 1955 until 1959. Stories were by France Herron and the artwork was ghosted in early 1956 by Jack Kirby.