“I must say as to what I have seen of Texas, it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here.”

About Davy Crockett

Folk Hero • American

David "Davy" Crockett was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. Revered in popular culture as the "King of the Wild Frontier," he represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of...