youtu.be/txcRQedoEyY Birthday Remembrance for Davy Crockett , King of the Wild Frontier born on this day in 1786, a true Tennessee stud. He was an American soldier, politician, adventurer and folk hero. He was first elected to the state legislature of Tennessee in 1821, and the U.S. House of Representatives in 1827, where he served three nonconsecutive terms in all. He was defeated in 1835 by a peg-legged lawyer named Andrew Huntsman, and gave up politics, saying, Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas. He left the next day, and he was killed at the Battle of the Alamo the following year. Although he was a skilled hunter and marksman, and had a reputation for telling tall tales, much of his rustic frontier image was a product of political spin. On his way to Congress, he reportedly bragged to a crowd, Im that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree] from the Writers Almanac.
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