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farlydatau · 1 year
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Vintage Davy Crockett Quotes Shirt, You May All Go To Hell & I Will Go To Texas, Crockett Grunge Text Design Tee, Gift For Davy Crockett Fan
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dbaydenny · 8 months
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Meanwhile in Tennessee
Davy Crockett's feet
roamed across this wilderness
which no longer is
being chopped up into lots
where a bear wouldn't want to live.
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D W Eldred
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compositography · 1 year
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Crockett Tavern and Museum
He's back!
Located at 2002 Morningside Drive Tennessee 37814 Reconstructed tavern was built upon the nearby grounds of the boyhood home of Davy Crockett Crockett Tavern Photograph by Jim Cook – Fine Art America The hitching post outside this replica of Crockett’s boyhood home is a silent reminder of bygone days when a traveler would hitch his horse to the post. The museum inside and outside is filled…
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deadpresidents · 26 days
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"Van Buren is as opposite to General Jackson as dung is to a diamond...He is what the English call a 'dandy.' When he enters the Senate chamber in the morning, he struts and swaggers like a crow in the gutter. He is laced up in corsets, such as women in town wear, and, if possible, tighter than the best of them. It would be difficult to say, from his personal appearance, whether he was a man or woman, but for his large...whiskers."
-- Congressman Davy Crockett of Tennessee, on then-Vice President Martin Van Buren, 1835
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Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919-1991) solo Songs: "Sixteen Tons," "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" Propaganda: "If you ever need a classic deep voice to just fall back into..."
Marty Balin (1942-2018) Jefferson Airplane - vocals and guitar; Jefferson Starship - vocals and guitar Songs: "Today," "Miracles" Propaganda: none
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yr-martyr · 6 months
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Ok I’m doing this to get it out of my system-
…the Wild West as things my friends have said-(mostly the fucking Alamo bc I have the displeasure of remembering it):(
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Santa Anna: COME DOWN HERE!!
Bowie: I’M SICK
Santa Anna: NOT YOU!! YOUR FRIEND!
Crockett: I’D RATHER DIE!! SORRY!!
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Billy the Kid: no, so I reach into the fridge, it’s just Gatorade mixed with wasabi.
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Santa Anna, about Davy: he’s like a… freaky woodsman.
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Teddy Roosevelt, to his rough riders: nanananana were completely fucked!
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Bowie: thanks, David Crocodile
Bowie: *crock pot
Bowie: *crockery
Bowie: *crochet
Bowie: *crickets
Bowie: I give up
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Clyde: I’m bored, let’s kill somebody
Bonnie: you’re so romantic <3
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The defenders of the mission:
Joe: I’d better skedaddle-
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Bonnie: want to go somewhere exotic? *gasp* want to go to Ohio?
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Bowie: what even happens in Tennessee?
Crockett: lots of stuff! like… Dolly and… uh… uhhhhhh…
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That one guy who’s name I forget that robbed a bank dressed as Santa Claus: fRee MonEy fReE moNeY frEe moNey!!
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Billy the kid: everywhere I look it’s just BOOM! Nightmare! Just BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare!
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Travis: well I think your hat looks dumb!
Crockett: well I think you look like a hag.
Travis: *offended gasp* YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!
Crockett: hag
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Crockett, drawing the line in the sand: this is the fuck around and find out line, you cross the line, YOU FIND OUT
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scotianostra · 1 year
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On February 23rd 1836 we saw the first day of the Siege of the Alamo.
There were at least four Scots born present, Richard W Ballentine, John McGregor (piper), Isaac Robinson and David L. Wilson and many of Scots ancestry among the defenders, some historians put the figure as  80% of the men who died as Scots or of Scots descent – and all of them viewed it as a re-run of Bannockburn when free men stood against an oppressor.
The Alamo is the number one tourist attraction in Texas. The site itself, to many visitors’ surprise, is in the very centre of the modern city of San Antonio. On a Friday evening in early April every year, before the San Antonio Highland Games, a group of Texans of Scottish descent gather in their kilts and tartan sashes at the Alamo to celebrate National Tartan Day – which is designed to remind us of what took place in Arbroath Abbey on April 6, 1320 – and to commemorate those of Scottish descent who died at the battle.
Speeches are made, the Declaration of Arbroath is quoted, Highland dances performed and pipes played. The pipe band is led by members of the Sutherland family, which has been in South Texas for more than 200 years and lost a relative at the battle. The event itself was first organised by Ellis Buchanan, one of whose relatives also died at the battle, having come down from Tennessee with Davy Crockett.
For the rest of the year we Scots are put back in our box and the role of Scots is overlooked despite the fact that, while San Antonio itself was clearly named by Spanish settlers, Houston, Dallas and Austin all have Scottish names, to say nothing about McAllen to the south.
Entrepreneur Stephen F. Austin, whose family were members of Clan Keith, was given the task of encouraging Americans to settle in the state when it was a sparsely populated northern province of Mexico. The fact that most of the land grants he made were to fellow Scots should not come as a surprise, since people of Scottish descent outnumbered those of English descent two to one in the southern United States at the time of the first census in 1790.
At the Alamo defenders even had their own piper, a native Scot called MacGregor, and a fiddler, rumoured to be Crockett himself. We know they played and sang songs every evening, and must assume that Burns’ great song, written some 43 years earlier and which captured the imaginations of Scots around the world, was often carried on the evening air across to the Mexican lines:
Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled,
Scots wham Bruce has often led,
Welcome to your gory bed
Or to victory.
Perhaps the only one who saw the worst coming was Travis, the young commander. He was one of the few whose ancestry was predominantly English, but he also loved the Waverley novels of Sir Walter Scott and may have seen the Texans’ heroic stand as deriving some of its romantic nobility from its very futility, like that of the Highlanders at Culloden.
Away from The Alamo,, like many places in the US, San Antonio holds a Highland Games every year. This year it takes place on April 1st and 2nd, fid lots of pics and details on their web page here IwAR20lLfNZljj6Au5obd8m3vXeF6UDhDf06cKNDqgPGnFcCE5u2g4qkX5Nbo
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icestarphoenix · 1 year
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Tennessee Headcanons
For @artisticmiles
I’m not sure about what I want the form of Tennessee’s State Spirit to be, but it’s likely going to be orange. As always, if any of you have any ideas, feel free to let me know.
Tennessee's human name is Terrence “Terry” Crockett Nash.
Crockett is for Davy Crockett, the famous American folk hero who fought and died in the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. He was born in Tennessee.
Nash is from Nashville. (credit to @the-phoenix-heart for this surname)
He’s pretty outgoing as well as friendly, and he makes friends easily. Very willing to set his own stuff aside to help other people.
Tennessee is tied for the state bordered by the most states with eight (the other is Missouri). Just one big ol’ group hug!
hehe Volunteer State
Has a shrine to Dolly Parton in both his house and his room. The one in his house is very impressive and takes up an entire room.
Has Tennessee thought up or even written down daydreams about just him and Dolly hanging out and having fun together? Perhaps.
Dolly Parton can see Spirit because I said so and she deserves it as well as the world.
Favorite mixed drink is Mountain Jack, four parts Mountain Dew and one part Jack Daniel’s.
Jack Daniel’s is famously produced in Lynchburg, Tennessee. 
Mountain Dew was created in Knoxville, originally as a mixer for whiskey.
He also makes his own whiskey using corn and the “Lincoln County Process” that gives the drink its charcoal mellowing property that makes it a true Tennessee whiskey.
Tennessee can be quite smart and resourceful due to Vanderbilt. Give him some duct tape to fix something and Southern ingenuity will make miracles happen.
Vanderbilt University is considered to be a very prestigious school and has been called the “Harvard of the South” for quite some time.
Mississippi also considers himself to have the “Harvard of the South” with Ole Miss in States Begin Reopening, though no one agrees with him. He still tries to argue for the title with Tennessee.
Had some fun with Tennessee for my Winged!AU. I let him be the one state who could be a Northern Mockingbird with all the states that had it as their state bird. This is mainly due to Nashville also being known as the “Music City” and mockingbirds being able to mimic other noises.
He can mimic sounds too and likes pranking people by doing things like mimicking their voices or phone notifications, doorbells, ringtones, etc.
Tennessee did mimic car alarms, but after Kentucky’s truck almost got stolen he didn’t do that anymore.
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How did Davy Crockett die? I am now intrigued
We don't know! That's the thing!!
[What the eff. My inbox said I have ten new messages, but there are only two in here? Whatever, I’m still happy to answer requests.]
Okay. So. I’ve mentioned that there’s A Whole Thing about Davy Crockett’s death, and we’re going to talk about it. Today You Learned about the whole debate on how Davy Crockett died.
Davy! Davy Crockett!
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You probably know the gist. Early American folk hero, statesman, King of the Wild Frontier and all of that. He didn’t get along with President Andrew Jackson, and opposed the Indian Removal Act. He lost an election in 1835, prompting him to bail on Tennessee, with the famous quote, “You can all go to Hell, I’m going to Texas.” He got wrapped up in the Texas Revolution, and died at the Battle of Alamo in 1836, in which he fought against General Santa Anna’s Mexican soldiers.
Here’s where it gets tricky: we know the day he died, we know where he died, but it’s the manner of death where there’s confusion. Crockett wasn’t in the Alamo church itself–he was right outside. There’s a statue marking the spot. The problem is that there are two main versions of the story. One says that his body was found dead, and around him were over a dozen dead enemy soldiers, meaning he went down taking as many enemies with him as he could. The other says that, surrounded by enemies, Crockett surrendered, and then was executed by Santa Anna’s troops.
See the issue? No? Okay, well then, how about this: in case you haven’t noticed, Americans take their heroes very seriously, and the Alamo is one of the biggest parts of the story of Texas. The idea that one of the most famous American heroes, a living legend, did not go down fighting to the last breath is an insult to every single American or Texan. 
In an ideal world, we’d look at first-hand accounts and see what they say. Except… we have, and they’re contradictory, too! A former enslaved man named Ben, working for Santa Anna, said that Crockett’s corpse was surrounded by dead enemy soldiers. However, a Mexican officer who served there, José Enrique de la Peña, wrote in his memoir that Crockett wasn’t killed in combat, but in captivity.
The lady who translated that memoir into English, by the way, was harassed by letters and phone calls from angry Crockett fanboys. There was also a movement to prove that the original text was a forgery, but as far as we can tell, the manuscript and the materials used to write it are consistent with what we know of the time period.
We don’t know what happened! We have two different eyewitness accounts that both tell two contradictory stories as to how the man died. And people have strong feelings about it. If you go to the Alamo, they’ll tell you about both but chances are they’ll also tell you which one they think is more likely. 
And I think this whole thing is nuts.
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Who would you put in an American statue garden? Assume no limit for how many
all the best presidents (i won't name them all but just to list a few: washington, adams, j. q. adams, jefferson, madison, monroe, fdr, teddy roosevelt, lincoln, etc), franklin, alexander hamilton, friedrich list, henry clay, henry carey, samuel adams, ethan allen, thomas young, john jay, james wilson, gouverneur morris, christopher columbus (tbh i'm tempted to include figures like leif erikson and prince madoc because even though they were never americans, like columbus, there is a mythopoetic/cultural value), lafayette, john winthrop, cotton mather, nathanael greene, friedrich wilhem von steuben, nathan hale, johnny appleseed, emperor norton, robert e. lee, william tecumseh sherman, daniel boone, lewis and clark, sacagawea, davy crockett, emerson, thoreau, walt whitman, longfellow, hilda doolittle, emily dickinson, nikola tesla, einstein, eli whitney, abigail adams, edgar allen poe, john brown, herman melville, butch cassidy, wyatt earp, doc holliday, wild bill hickok, sundance kid, john henry, andrew carnegie, nathaniel hawthorne, washington irving, horace mann, john dewey, wernher von braun, j. robert oppenheimer, john marshall, wiliam penn, junipero sera, john d. rockefeller, clara barton, fanny wright, thomas edison, alexandar graham bell, ezra pound, kerouac, william faulkner, steinbeck, hemingway, dolley madison, john muir, annie oakley, lovecraft, eleanor roosevelt, john browning, samuel colt, elvis presley, claude shannon, henry miller, kanye west, stanley kubrick, john von neumann, thorstein veblen, edward bellamy, henry ford, cornelius vanderbilt, betsy ross, black hawk, sitting bull, tecumseh, hart crane, h. l. mencken, tennessee williams, charles sanders peirce, william james, quine, hilary putnam, richard rorty, charles hartshorne, walt disney, mark twain, etc.
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farlydatau · 1 year
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New Davy Crockett's Quote You May All go to Hell and I will go to Texas T-Shirt
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dixiedrudge · 2 months
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Gone to Texas - Today In Southern History
3 March 1835   On this date in 1835… David “Davy” Crockett left his post as congressman from Tennessee proclaiming, “You all can go to hell. I’m gone to Texas.” Other Years: 1513 – Ponce de Leon left Puerto Rico for Florida and his search for the fountain of youth. De Leon subsequently claimed Florida for Spain. 1801 – The first Jewish governor of a U.S. State, David Emanuel, took office in…
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lost-pagan-wanderer · 2 months
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North America's old gods:
This list will be edited as I learn of more of the folkfigures and discover ones new to me.
Annie Oakley
Based off of the Annie Oakley, she was known for her incredible markmanship.
Buffalo Bill Cody
Based off of the man of the same name, he was known for his abilities as a soldier, hunter, and showman of the Wild West.
Calamity Jane
Based off of Martha Jane Canary, she is know for her aquaintence to Wild Bill Hicockok and being a top notch frontiersmen and scout.
Captain Stormalong
A giant nautical figure with a large clipper ship known for his many adventures on the seas.
Charlie Chan
A Hawiian figure based on Chan Apana, he is known as a great detective and solver of mysteries.
Cordwood Pete
A lesser figure, he is brother to Paul Bunyan.
Daniel Boone
Based off of, well, Daniel Boone who was a pioneer explorer and frontiersman that had many great adventures.
Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier
Based off the man of the same name, he was a frontiersman, soldier, and politican that represented tennessee; he took part in the Texas revolution and Battle of the Alamo.
Jigger Johnson
Based off of the real Jigger Johnson, he was a lumberjack and log driver known for his off the job exploits.
John Henry
Based off of the African-American steel driver, John Henry, he is known for his strength, work ethic, and most of all going head-to-head in a race and winning against a steam powered hammer that was threatening to put man railroad workers out of work.
John the Conqueror
An African-American figure known for his trickster ways to gain and maintain his freedom from the slave masters, possibly the inspiration for the Br're Rabbit.
Johnny Appleseed
Based off of John Chapman, he is credited for planting forests of cider apples across multiple states.
Johnny Kaw
A settler of Kansas, he is credited for shaping the state's landscape and making wheat and sunflowers major crops.
Lone Ranger
Possibly based on Bass Reeves, he is known for his battles against raiders, robbers, and other criminals.
Mike Fink, King of the keelboaters
River boatman and brawler that personified the men that ran keelboats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Molly Brown
A lesser figure known for her time on and survival of the Titanic.
Molly Pitcher
Thought to be based off of a woman named Mary Hays or possibly a college of many couragous women, she is known for her part in the American Battle of Monmouth.
Paul Bunyan and Babe the Oxe
Created by the lumberjacks and woodsmen of Canada and the US, and thought by some to be based off of Bon Jean of French-Canadian folklore. He is known for his giagantic stature, immense strength and endurance, large appatite, and feats of logging with his faithful, loyal, and hardworking companion Babe the Ox.
Pecos Bill
A cowboy known for being able to ride anything into submission, he lassoed and rode a tornado until it dissipated.
Stagger Lee, Stagolee
An African-American figure known for being a big shot in the criminal underworld and murdering an aquaintence for trying to take his hat.
Zorro
Based off of salomon Pico and other mexican bandits in the California area, he was known for combatting the corruption in the political and wealthy circles in California.
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bllsbailey · 3 months
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The Tyranny of Federalizing Troops to Undermine America's National Sovereignty
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Allen West:
I was born and raised in Georgia. I attended the University of Tennessee -- the Volunteers -- and now reside in Texas, where I finished my military career. I can tell you that there is a ruggedness in the Lone Star State that can be traced back to names like Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Mirabeau Lamar, Thomas Jefferson Rusk, James Fanin, William Barret Travis, and Jim Bowie. This is the state that was first its own Republic and fought for its independence all alone. Rough men stood on a field and dared the vaunted Mexican cavalry to "Come and Take It.” Texas is home to The Alamo, a sacred place embodying the purest definition of courage and honor. This is the place where men met at Washington on the Brazos in a windowless wooden cabin and wrote a Declaration of Independence, the only state in the Union with such. The San Jacinto battlefield is the site where Texas secured its independence, defeating Santa Anna and his army in 18 minutes.
Joe Biden has foolishly decided to take on Texas over his unconstitutional and treasonous undermining of our national sovereignty.
I am sure there are the leftist detractors who will say, "But Colonel, the SCOTUS ruled . . . " Well, the SCOTUS got it wrong, very wrong. Last week I posted a detailed exegesis of the fallacy, and danger, of their decision. The federal government cannot disregard and abdicate an enumerated constitutional duty -- Article IV, Section 4, the Guarantee Clause -- and expect the States to have no recourse. The Founding Fathers understood that, hence enumerated the power to the States, Article I, Section 10, Clause 3, to take action "if actually invaded, under imminent danger, and without any admit of delay." It doesn't take a constitutional scholar to be able to read and comprehend that.
As a result, Biden has threatened to "federalize" the Texas National Guard and force them to comply with his unconstitutional actions of implementing an open borders policy. First of all, I know a bit about federalizing the Texas National Guard. As an artillery battalion commander in the 4th Infantry Division, one of my subordinate firing units was in the Texas National Guard. As we prepared to deploy for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2002, I remember the Division Commander, the late General Raymond Odierno asking me at the National Training Center if I could get the unit trained up for the deployment. I knew he would be asking and briefed him on a two-week training plan. The unit was requested under Title X they were activated.
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Secondly, we all remember Republican President Eisenhower "federalizing" the Arkansas National Guard during the Little Rock School desegregation crisis. The SCOTUS had decided in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 that the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision of "separate but equal" was unconstitutional. Arkansas Governor Faubus used the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. As an interesting side note, Democrats used to keep Blacks from getting an equal and quality education by locking them out. Now, the same Democrats keep Blacks from the same by locking them into failing schools.
Eisenhower first called up the US Army's 101st Airborne Division, he subsequently federalized the Arkansas National Guard to enforce the desegregation executive order. Yeah, a Republican President enforced the Brown v. Board of Education decision, by way of his executive order, and the use of military security.
That, ladies and gents, are two examples of the correct, and constitutional, means for federalizing the National Guard.
Joe Biden and the progressive socialist left seek dictatorial tyranny. Then again, it was Joe Biden who spoke of the federal government having F-15s and nuclear weapons, a direct threat to American citizens. All uniformed members of our Armed Forces take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. I have yet to see any article, section, or clause in the Constitution that supports open borders and wanton illegal immigration. Heck, I find it quite telling that Biden would seek to federalize the Texas National Guard to enable the continued flow of single military-aged males, illegally, into our Republic but not have them conduct operations to regain operational control of our border from the transnational narco-criminal terrorists, the cartels. Or why is it that Biden has remained silent about pro-Hamas terrorist groups holding violent marches in our nation? After all, Hamas is still holding Americans hostage and killed Americans on October 7, 2023.
One can only deduce that the Biden administration is taking the next step in their willful, intentional, and purposeful undermining of our national sovereignty. They are going to use the military to enable the flow of drug, human, and sex trafficking. I do not think our military is willing to aid and abet human and sex trafficking. 
Texas will not comply. I can assure you that the members of the Texas National Guard will say to Biden as those men said on October 2, 1835, at Gonzales . . . "Come and Take It.” This is a very bad hill upon which Joe Biden has chosen to die. As we say in the military, he has written a check that his butt can't cash. He has elevated the issue of border security to an even higher position. As well, he is galvanizing what will be more than two-thirds of this nation against him, and his lawless, tyrannical, dictatorial, and unconstitutional administration. Texans will not idly sit by anymore and watch our safety, security, and sovereignty be threatened.
There's a saying down in these parts, "Don't Mess with Texas." Any hope for the progressive socialist, Marxists, to ever win the state of Texas just went up in smoke. And, yes, if the ol' Colonel is asked to head down, man a position, or lead an element of the Texas State Militia, hell yeah! Nah, I am not an insurrectionist. Joe Biden is, as well as being a petty usurper and dangerous charlatan.
Steadfast and Loyal.
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David Crockett
David Crockett Estadista Pionero 1786-1836 “. . . mitad caballo, mitad caimán, con un toque de tortuga mordedora…”* “…Puedo batir mi peso en gatos salvajes y, si algún caballero quiere, por un billete de diez dólares, puede arrojar una pantera“**. Las grandes historias que se cuentan sobre este congresista de Tennessee transformaron a David Crockett, pionero, cazador y excongresista, en Davy…
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