DAVY CROCKETT

David Crockett was born Tennessee, in 1786. At the age of thirteen, to escape from beating, he ran away from home. On his return, he worked for a neighbour to pay his father's debts. At eighteen, he got married and set up a home of his own.

In the Creek War, Crockett served as a scout under the command of Andrew Jackson. He remained as an unknown backwoods hunter and frontiersman until his election to the Tennessee legislature. From the time David entered public life, he had opposed Jackson and this caused his defeat.

Crockett, then,  intended to become a land agent  for the New Territory, Texas, seeing the new future of an independent state. He joined the movement for the Texan Independence and was slaughtered by the Mexican Army.

Davy Crockett was a brave soldier, an able scout and a bear hunter with a talent of story telling. He became the model for Nimrod Wildfire, the hero of James K. Paulding' s play ' The Lion of the West', as well as the first southern humorist. The fictional Davy expanded his role as a legendary hunter who could run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, stay under longer, and come out drier. He could ride his pet alligator up Niagara Falls and save the world by 'unfreezing' the sun.

Crockett's Opinion of a Thunderstorm: Crockett regarded the thunderstorm as a natural music. When he heard it, he said he felt like he could hug the Mississippi, bust a big rock and do the duty of an entire saw mill.

Crockett Swallows a Thunderbolt: Crockett fell in love with a girl. Since he was married, he devoted himself to learn about electricity to forget about the girl. He went to the forest on a rainy day, opened his mouth so that a thunderbolt might run down and hit his heart, curing it off love. He swallowed a thunderbolt and he had never felt love since.

Crockett's Morning Hunt: One January morning, the weather was so cold that everything was frozen. Crockett thought to himself  'if I don't see about it, the human creation is done for'. After  'travelling out a few leagues' he discovered "the earth had frizzed fast in her axis and could not turn round; the sun had got jammed between two cakes o'ice and that he had been shinnin' and workin' to get loose". Crockett took a twenty pound bear that he had picked up on the road and beat the animal till the hot "ile" walked out on him. He poured the ile over the sun and gave the earth's "cog-wheel" one kick and got the sun loose. The earth began moving. He shouldered the bear, introducing the people to fresh daylight with " a price of sunrise in his pocket", with which he "cooked his bear steaks".