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1786, Aug 171813-18361836, Mar 6
a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution. During his last term in Congress, Crockett collaborated with Kentucky Congressman Thomas Chilton to write his autobiography, which was published by E. L. Carey and A. Hart in 1834 as A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, Written by Himself.
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04/25/1831-A play lionizing Davy Crockett opens
01/05/1836-Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo 
 Notes (1)
Remembering the Alamo (and the death of Davy Crockett):
from The Straight Dope
In the column in your archive on the Alamo (The Straight Dope: What was the Mexicans' version of the Alamo attack?), you base most of your claims on the diary of José Enrique de la Peña. I did a bit of searching on the Internet and found claims that this diary is...
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 Mentions (3)
Thomas Chilton
...prominent Baptist clergyman, and the ghost writer of Davy Crockett's autobiography. In 1834 a Philadelphia publisher...
Jose Enrique de la Pena
...The memoirs are controversial in that they said that Davy Crockett did not die fighting (as is the common belief),...
Richard Penn Smith
...Battle of the Alamo, which was presented as the work of Davy Crockett. Reasonably popular at the time, modern criticism...
 Quotes (25) • View in Quotations
Be always sure you are right - then go ahead.
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn't been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one.
I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased - the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent.
I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months' schooling only, I, David Crockett, find myself the most popular bookmaker of the day, and such is the demand for my works that I cannot write them half fast enough, no how I can fix it.
It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. Such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
No man who has not tried it can imagine what dreadful hard work it is to listen. Splitting gum logs in the dog days is child's play to it. I've tried both, and give the preference to the gum logs.
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.
You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful representative, and the public's most obedient, very humble servant.
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