David Crockett

He had pink cheeks, a big chin, bright eyes and a genial innocence about him, a charm that prompted the writing of biographies and almanacs, starting before his death and continuing through this spring's biography, "David Crockett" by Michael Wallis, a specialist in Western Americana and biographer of other folk icons like Billy the Kid and Pretty Boy Floyd.

An Inexplicable Gift for Fame Henry Allen 2011

Crockett's brags were legendary, but they were a comic art form practiced throughout the frontier, and so tongue-in-cheek as to be a form of modesty in themselves, as in the much-reported: "I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning."

An Inexplicable Gift for Fame Henry Allen 2011

David Crockett, who had tended to him in Caserta when he had the flu, drove.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

David Crockett, the OSS finance officer who had sat up with Donovan the night he had a raging case of the flu in Caserta, was amused the boss still had enough spunk to flirt with nurses at Walter Reed.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

David Crockett, a Harvard man and Boston department store owner who now managed OSS finances at the Caserta station, sat up with the spy chief for two nights terrified he would blurt out secrets in his crazed state of mind.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

David Crockett, a Harvard man and Boston department store owner who now managed OSS finances at the Caserta station, sat up with the spy chief for two nights terrified he would blurt out secrets in his crazed state of mind.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

David Crockett, the OSS finance officer who had sat up with Donovan the night he had a raging case of the flu in Caserta, was amused the boss still had enough spunk to flirt with nurses at Walter Reed.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

David Crockett, who had tended to him in Caserta when he had the flu, drove.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

He says that “a David Crockett, well-known naturalist from Tennessee,” was among a small group of defenders who hid during the final stage of the battle and eventually surrendered, only to be executed by the enraged, despotic Santa Anna.

Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

He says that “a David Crockett, well-known naturalist from Tennessee,” was among a small group of defenders who hid during the final stage of the battle and eventually surrendered, only to be executed by the enraged, despotic Santa Anna.

Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010