Fess Parker has every right to be done forever with coonskin caps, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" and everything else involving the straight- shooting Alamo defender from the 1800s. Disney's "Davy ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — He was “the king of the wild frontier,” but what is his preferred first name? Is it “Davy” or “David” Crockett? He was born “David,” signed documents “David” and titled his 1834 ...

In the shaded gardens of the Alamo, hundreds of people Saturday celebrated an American folk legend’s 233rd birthday. Scott Jones was one of them. He portrayed David “Davy” Crockett as the congressman ...

Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television’s Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, ...

When John Ford praised his old pal John Wayne’s 1960 movie, “The Alamo,” he predicted that it would run “forever.” After enduring all 192 minutes of the original roadshow version, Time magazine’s ...

Thirty summers ago, American baby boomers were caught up in perhaps the most unexpected craze of all time. Davy Crockett was not only “king of the wild frontier,” he was the hot item of 1955 — a ...