David Crockett - Crockett Memorial - Lawrenceburg, TN
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YoSam.
N 35° 14.434 W 087° 20.106
16S E 469511 N 3899773
BTW He HATED "Davy"...Davy was made the NAME by the Disney version.
Waymark Code: WMV3G2
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 02/17/2017
Views: 2
County of quote: Lawrence County
Location of quote: 1 Public Square, Dav id Crockett Monument, Lawrenceburg
Quote:
Be sure you are right
THEN GO AHEAD!
David Crockett
I have read many books or Crockett...and did some digging (research)...there are so many lies, that have been published as truth...and I do refer to the Disney version of Crockett..
After the Alamo, pamphleteers created legends out of whole cloth...and because of Disney they were put into his Crockett song and craze of the middle 1950's and truth cannot be pulled out of the jaws of fantasy.
I have read over 50 books on his life, and the very best is one by Bob Thompson, Born on a Mountaintop, on the road with David Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier.
A humorous title, but a serious academic digging into the truth and not so true life of Crockett.
Because his daughter was taken with Crockett he began to dig. He actually went to every site the real David is historical been and even some others claimed he had been, to dig up facts. Done very well.