In the shaded gardens of the Alamo, hundreds of people Saturday celebrated an American folk legend’s 233rd birthday. Scott Jones was one of them. He portrayed David “Davy” Crockett as the congressman ...

As a coonskin cap wearing, Old Betsy gun (plastic) toting, “Born’d on a mountain top in Tennessee” singing boy of the mid-’50s, I was enamored with all things Davy Crockett. The historically ...

Fess Parker has every right to be done forever with coonskin caps, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" and everything else involving the straight- shooting Alamo defender from the 1800s. Disney's "Davy ...

I grew up in an era when we wore coonskin caps, not hoodies. I played with Erector Sets, not X-Boxes. And, my hero was not Trey Parker, the creator of “South Park,” but Fess Parker, the ...

David Zucker, creator of 'Airplane!' and the original 'Naked Gun' movies, said the Alamo site is becoming a 'world-class ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — He was “the king of the wild frontier,” but what is his preferred first name? Is it “Davy” or “David” Crockett? He was born “David,” signed documents “David” and titled his 1834 ...