Timeline Of Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett, The Wild Boy From Tennessee: biography, pictures ...

David Stern Crockett had been one of those folk heroes that we wish we would have known.  He is described as a talented story-teller, soldier,hunter, husband, father and defender of the oppressed.

My wish is to bring Davy to life before your very eyes.  I want to show that he was just like us, with talents, good qualities and some not so great, which he readily admitted.

This story will take you from his childhood with all his escapades, to his courting days, including some disappointments.  We will visit his love of hunting with "Old Betsy" his beloved rifle, his "politiking" days when he stood on a tree stump and caressed the listener's ears with his stories.  We will travel with him to fight the Indians with Andrew Jackson, then on to Congress to debate with his fellow defenders when they fought General Santa Ana at the Alamo.

Davy had not been perfect, not by any stretch of the imagination.  He even describes himself as a "wild boy" which will become quite apparent in the story to come.

          "Grant me the courage not to give up even though I think it is hopeless" 

                                           Chester W. Niebuhr

Dawn would have come a few minutes before 7:00 am on March 6, 1836.  The exhausted sentinels no doubt dozed at their posts.  Colonel Travis placed a few men in look-out posts outside the fort's walls in order to detect amy movement in the night.  They too slept.

Then there had been the distant clomping of horse's hooves and the muffled sounds of swords and spurs around 3:00 am. 

The Alamo was deadly silent.  No one heard the men on horseback form a circle around the fort a hundred or so yards in the night.  No one saw the moonlight that brightened the sky that night shining off polished steel.  No one heard the shuffling and trampling of more than two thousand feet, the clatter of bayonets and the occaisional thud of a ladder banging against stone walls.  It was just as well, the defenders of the Alamo needed their sleep.

In a house on the west wall Travis lay sleeping.  All of a sudden the door burst open.  J.J Baugh, the officer of the day shouted, "the Mexicans are coming."  Travis jumped up from his cot and rushed to the door.  All around him men started coming alive from their sound slumber.  travis could tell at that very moment they had been taken by surprise.

Davy Crockett, Frontier Hero

Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett

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