Davy Crocket

     Davy Crocket was born in 1786 in Tennessee.  He grew up and found the biggest panther this side of the Mississippi.  He fought that panther and when the fight was over he took it home and they became the best of companions. Davy Crocket was a famous hunter and the tales have it that he could shoot a pea off a mountain top.  Davy Crocket ran for Congress in 1827, he became famous for satirizing the difficult lives of these frontier men and women.  Davy Crocket died in the Alamo in 1836.  Many Folks say that "Davy Crocket seemed to be half varmint". They say when he was eight years old he weighed two hundred pounds.

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