The Life And Legacy Of The Legend Of Davy Crockett

It is Saturday morning me and my brothers are sitting in a half circle around the television set. Our favorite Saturday morning matinee is about to come on. The music starts, we hear the opening lyrics, “Davy, Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier”. Excitement fills the air; we are bouncing around the house like a room full of super balls. The Adventure of Davy Crockett is coming on with a new episode. We are all claiming to be Davy Crockett and no one wants to be his sidekick. So what makes Davy Crockett such a legendary figure? Why do children act as if they are losing their minds with excitement when, “The Davy Crockett Show” comes on? If we were to explore the life and legacy of the really David Crockett, is he truly an Indian fighter,

In fact, Davy Crockett career as a politician help to develop his reputation as a frontiersman. “[…] [I]n 1834 Crockett a grand speaker conducted a triumphal speechmaking tour of Whig strongholds in the East. During these tour he was famous for telling attention catching stories. Many of those stories appeared in newspapers and books during his congressional years, the legend, rapidly grew of an eccentric but perceptive “bar-hunting” and Indian-fighting frontiersman”. David Crockett the rebellious Politian, sharpshooter, tale-spinner and larger-than-life frontiersman became a legend, mostly because he was able to package himself and win votes during his political campaigns. Crockett fame helped him defeat the incumbent candidate in three out of four bids for re-election to Congress. But most of all David Crockett’s ability to tell a story made him the peoples champ. He was labelled the king of the tall tales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett). Take for instance Davy Crockett’s, fight to win the Tennessee legislative seat, in 1821. He used his popularity through campaign speeches filled with stories and unpretentious metaphors. History reviles many “legislature who campaigned against Davy Crockett, referred to him as the “gentleman from the cane,” an allusion to the dense canebrakes of western Tennessee, where

Davy Crockett is in his home town campaigning for his third and final term in congress. He has rallied his followers outside the local saloon. The crowd is angry because they have been waiting to see Davy for hours. One of the men yells out “if Day Crocket does not feed us we all should tie him up and beat his flesh raw”. Davy Crockett’s aids heard the conversation and hurried to tell him. The aid took off live a bullet shot out of a gun. He ran as fast as his legs could move. The aid found Davy in one of the back rooms of the saloon. He told Davy the men waiting for him to speak were mad. They were tired of waiting and many of them was hungry. He told Davy the men threaten to harm him if food was not provided. Davy told his aid to go to the local market and get a basket full of fish. Take the fish to towns cook and have him prepare and serve the fish to the awaiting crowd. Davy’s aid went to the market with the little money he had and purchased a basket full of fish. Davy’s aid took the fish to the local cook to have the fish prepared. The aid told the cook Davy needed him to cook the fish. The cook told the aid “I would be glad to prepare the fish, however I need money to purchase fire wood and cooking oil to cook the fish. Davy Crockett’s aid rushed back to where Davy was practicing his speech. The aid told Davy he needed money to pay the cook before