Davy Crockett: Battle Of The Alamo

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Davy Crockett has been made famous by many of the myth’s such as killing a bear, wrestling alligators, ad dying during the battle of the Alamo. Some myth’s state that he either died in a gun fight at the Alamo or by being captured by the Mexicans of Santa Ana. One thing we do know for sure, is that Crockett was born in 1786 in East TN to his father John Crockett. There isn’t to much known about Davy’s mother. Davy’s grandparents were killed by Creek Indians.
Around 1827 Crockett had gotten elected into congress and ended up serving three terms. While he was in office, America had begun to really mythologize him. At the same time, as word spread, Crockett began to mythologize himself. The myth’s started to become a “wildfire” so to speak, after

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