Davy Crockett is nothing short of an American icon. It's a striking, collective mental image: the brave Crockett, setting out into the wilds of Tennessee and the unknown and unexplored (by European-American settlers) areas west, brandishing a rifle and wearing a coonskin cap. Or, there's the notion that he died fighting at the Alamo, one of the most legendary battles in North American history. At any rate, Crockett lived a life of danger and adventure that coalesced with a period of significant and rapid change in the United States: the early 1800s.

Due to a combination of self-aggrandizement and contemporary accounts of his achievements that may have stretched the truth for entertainment and political purposes, it's hard to separate truth from fiction (or mythology, or lore) when it come

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