Скачать или смотреть The story of Tennessee's hero David Crockett

It's impossible to tell the story of Tennessee or our nation without Davy Crockett.

He forged his place in the history books with character and a determination that exemplifies the American spirit and earned him the nickname "king of the wild frontier."

"I think he holds a high spot in Tennessee history," said Richard White, Chief Curator at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville. "I would have to say that Davy Crockett's pretty high in that pantheon."
Davy Crockett rose to fame in the early 1800's. He made his name as a skilled marksman and long hunter. He parlayed that frontier popularity into politics serving two terms in the Tennessee state legislature and three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives in Congress.

Crockett was born in Greene County in East Tennessee but he lived in each of the state's three grand divisions. He lived in Middle Tennessee for many years and represented Hickman and Lawrence Counties in the state legislature.

Crockett lived by the simple motto: "Always be sure you're right and then go ahead."

"We're in this period where the common man is rising up," said White. "The leadership in the country is sort of shifting from the more aristocratic Richmond to this, what we call today the common men."

There's a bust of Davy Crockett right outside the state house of representatives downtown at the state Capitol. They call it the people's house. And Davy Crockett was very much a man of the people.

"Part of his opposition to Jackson [then President Andrew Jackson] was Jackson's policies related to Indian removal," said White. "But for Crockett, it was in the same realm as the land struggles of the common farmer."

Crockett wrote an autobiography in 1834. It helped fuel his legend as a man who lived on the edge of civilization. That's where the coon skin cap came in. It became part of pop culture after the Davy Crockett story was featured on television and a Walt Disney movie in the 1950's.

"I just remember from childhood seeing the show and the song, you know, Davey, Davey Crockett, king of the wild frontier," said Jeff Spaulding, a retired musician Scott Couch met while viewing some Crockett artifacts at the Tennessee State Museum. "I had a recording of him and then we went, we visited the Alamo a couple of years ago."
The Alamo would be the final chapter in the Davy Crockett story. He was executed there in February of 1836 trying to help Texas win its independence from Mexico.

"We talk about him in the pantheon of Tennessee history," said the museum's chief curator. "Boy, he's way up in the Pantheon of Texas history too."

Davy Crockett is one of the heroes who inspired the saying, "Remember the Alamo." It's a battle cry that symbolizes the courage and sacrifice of the American spirit.

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