Davy Crockett

Throughout the years, many people have come to love J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. This is evident in the fact that there have been multiple renditions of it over the past century. Some of these include stage productions, ballets, and motion pictures. Audiences around the world are fascinated with the mystery and magic involved with Neverland. However, what most people fail to consider, is where the idea for the enchanting storyline developed. Most readers would be surprised to discover that a large…

actually happened and what people claim happened. Davy Crockett and the Alamo are a very important parts of Texas history, but their cultural meaning is not as similar to what Crisp discovers. Crisp tells us how history really was and sometimes gets a reaction from his readers because his portrayal of history. Crisp…

author Crisp attempts to dig deep into the myths surrounding the Alamo - Davy Crockett’s heroic death and the authenticity of the de la Peña diary. In writing this book, Crisp uncovers hidden truths while engaging in contradictions with other historians. Essentially this book seeks not to debunk the myths of the Alamo, but rather to understand them. In my opinion, what David Crockett and the Alamo means is that Davy Crockett is in a sense a representation of Anglo-American superiority and…

written by Sarah Nilsen, “Be Sure you’re Right, Then Go Ahead”: The Davy Crockett Gun Craze, we learn her view of the way guns may have had an effect on childhood living. Throughout the article, Sarah refers several times to Walt Disney’s use of guns and Davy Crockett. To start off, she explains a brief history of the relationship between the NRA and Davy Crockett. She claims that the NRA used the iconic figure of Disney’s Davy Crockett to persuade society that guns aren’t bad. She continues on…

James E. Crisp’s Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution details several important moments of the Texas Revolution. This would include: the speech Sam Houston gave at Refugio in 1836; the validity of the De la Peña Diary; Davy Crockett’s death and how he became an icon. Much to his surprise, Crisp found that many believed the speech Sam Houston had given at Refugio in 1836 had been riddled with anti-Mexican sentiments. Eugene Barker, a popular…

and most accepted belief was that Crockett died heroically in battle (as was clearly depicted in numerous films), the emergence of a diary written by Enrique de la Peña, a Mexican officer, who claimed “to be an eyewitness to the capture and execution of Davy Crockett in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of the Alamo” was about to send shockwaves to the historical circles. The first source that Crisp analyzed was Bill Groneman’s Defense of a Legend: Crockett and the de la Peña Diary.…

The Texas revolution is a important historical event with its heroes such as Davy Crockett, Stephen F. Austin , Jim Bowie and Sam Houston. In the book Sleuthing The Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other mysterious of The Texas Revolution the author is faced with tracking the truth behind Sam Houston's speech. It all started when he was young with his exposure to the Texas revolution according to James Crisp in page 1 “The iconic heroes of the Texas Revolution were all around me, in the…

been discovered through the years of the Alamo, but one in fact, the De La Pena diary is a historical importance of information of a Mexican soldier discontent with the Leadership of Santa Anna along with brutality killings at the Alamo along with Davy Crockett’s surrender. The Diary of De La Pena has been argued of its originality, was it forged, and how accurate was the events that occurred. James E. Crisp and Groneman both affiliate themselves with this argument throughout Sleuthing the Alamo…

In recent years, the details of Davy Crockett’s death have come into question. The feelings that this kind of questioning can invoke are similar to that of someone challenging one’s religious faith. During an interview with Saul Elbien, author and historian T.R. Fehrenbach said “I find…

Davy Crockett was born on Aug 17, 1786 giving his parents a new life to take care of him in Greene County Tennessee. He had a house made out of wood and a beautiful, green forest around his house. He lived with a pioneer family in a cabin house. Where he lives there is a big, huge, large river called Nolichucky River and it is located in Tennessee at the east side of it. He is the 5th son of his family, and he has also had his parents. Also, during a time he became a famous person…