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RIP Fess Parker
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I grew up watching him as Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone.
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Man, my Dad watched this guy (Davey Crockett) with me when I was a kid. And I have my Daddy's coon skin cap. 
RIP.
RIP.
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OK everybody, sing along with me in tribute:
Born on a mountain-top in Tennessee
Greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so he knew every tree
Killed him a b'ar when he was only three
Davy, Davy Crockett
King of the wild frontier...
Born on a mountain-top in Tennessee
Greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so he knew every tree
Killed him a b'ar when he was only three
Davy, Davy Crockett
King of the wild frontier...
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Honestly, I didn't even know he was still alive.
Daniel Boone was a man, yes a big man,
with an eye like an eagle, and as tall as mountain was he.
Daniel Boone was a man, yes a big man,
with an eye like an eagle, and as tall as mountain was he.
Wow. I didn't either. I use to watch when I was a little kid too. Seemed like such a nice man. RIP
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Trivia: He had a role in Them, the classic Atomic-Age-the-ants-are-gigantic movie. (So did Leonard Nimoy.)
Quote from Barbara Hambly's book, The Armies of Daylight:
"I'll have you remember I slayed a dragon. Not bad," he added, "for a poor boy who was borned on a mountaintop in Tennessee."
Gil paused. . . "Even if it is the greenest state in the land of the free," she agreed, nodding gravely. "Was you raised in the woods, then?"
"Till I knew every tree,"Rudy asserted proudly.
"Do you know what they're talking about?" Alde asked quietly of Ingold, who was listening to this interchange in mystified astonishment.
Bemused, the wizard shook his head.
"It's the ancient lore of our people," Gil explained...
Quote from Barbara Hambly's book, The Armies of Daylight:
"I'll have you remember I slayed a dragon. Not bad," he added, "for a poor boy who was borned on a mountaintop in Tennessee."
Gil paused. . . "Even if it is the greenest state in the land of the free," she agreed, nodding gravely. "Was you raised in the woods, then?"
"Till I knew every tree,"Rudy asserted proudly.
"Do you know what they're talking about?" Alde asked quietly of Ingold, who was listening to this interchange in mystified astonishment.
Bemused, the wizard shook his head.
"It's the ancient lore of our people," Gil explained...
Odd thing about television. The Daniel Boone theme goes on to tout Boone as the "rippin'est, roarin'est, fightin'est man the frontier ever knew," yet the Boone Parker played in that series was very much a family man who'd rather think his way out of trouble than fight his way out.
And did you know that in Disney's Davy Crockett, Crockett does not die at the Alamo? The last scene shows him, probably as the last defender alive, standing atop a flight of stairs, batting away Mexican soldiers with the butt end of his beloved Old Betsy.
In actual fact, there is some evidence, from Mexican sources, largely, that Crockett and a few others were captured at the Alamo and brought before Santa Ana, only to be tortured to death.