However, that's exactly what the Davy Crockett Recoilless Rifle was when it was first formulated in 1958. It was all of the power of nuclear weapons with the portability of a regular piece of ...

The state is also known for important historical figures, including the “King of the Wild Frontier”: David “Davy” Crockett. One of the most famous Tennesseans, Crockett cemented his legacy ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — David ‘Davy’ Crockett was not only a real-life folk hero but also a model for the all-American frontiersmen, and one of the most famous Tennesseans. The “King of ...

When my boy Coleman was four, he asked for — and got — a Davy Crockett jacket and a coonskin cap for Christmas. Back when Disney celebrated bad asses instead of fruitcakes, he had watched a ...

This, I thought, was a real Ozymandias moment: Davy Crockett, frontier legend, killed “b’ars” in the surrounding forest; now his evidence was reduced to dew and poison ivy and a rattling ...

Curator Dwight Blocker Bowers shares the story of Davy Crockett's coonskin cap, now on view in Starring North Carolina! at the North Carolina Museum of History, a Smithsonian Affiliate museum. Made of ...

When Crockett objects, Powell’s men give him a serious beatdown that ends only when they assume he is dead. This, too, is a big mistake. Throughout much of “The Ballad of Davy Crockett,” it ...

It's a story with deep ties to this state. Actor William Moseley is playing Davy Crockett. "I want this film to be an action/adventure, swashbuckling Crockett," Moseley smiled. "It's a movie that ...