Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett is a name in American folklore which had a recent vogue among children in America. The lore revolves around a career of a backwoodsman’s progress from an Indian fighter and bear hunter to a ” coonskin Congressman” and Texan patriot.

Crockett died at the Alamo and became a legend. Here superstition mingles with humorous myth, in the legends of a hunter whose strength is the match for any animal. The animal’s sighed relief when Crockett died.Rattlesnakes frolicked with joy. Men drop tears at the sight of his old fox-skin cap hanging on the cabin wall.