WEBVTT - Why was Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier? 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:04.200 Welcome to you stuff you should know from house stuff 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:12.600 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:18.120 Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's back. Yeah, 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:24.720 where's that little plastic clappy machine? We can just Jerry's back. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.440 Jerry can I mentioned had surgery on her back to 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:34.360 add a third limb. She does not have the third limb, 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.279 but she uh is. It's been a while on her 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.599 back recuperating, then eventually was in a chair and now 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.000 she's walking around and now she can do push ups 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.120 with the third arm coming out of her back. It's 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.760 pretty awesome. But soon enough Jerry will be like pain 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.360 free for the first time this year, which is very excited. Yes, 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.040 but for the time being, she's on some pretty dynamite pills. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:04.880 Oh yeah, I to her. Um, Jerry, how are you 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.560 doing over there? So welcome back, Jerry. We didn't know 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.800 how much we missed you until you were gone for real. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.040 All right, again the applaustic that's about as much sentiments 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:19.200 we allow. You know, my throat dried up. I had 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.839 like some sort of adverse reaction to that. All right, 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.640 let's do this. Oh really, yeah, man, fine, let's Davie Crockett. 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.160 I should point out first off that when I was 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:36.039 a kid visiting my grandparents in Memphis, Tennessee, Davy Crockett land, Um, 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.680 I have a great picture, and people who always say, like, 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:40.560 why don't you ever post the pictures you talk about? 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:42.120 But I had this great picture of me when I 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:47.480 was like five years old. Coon skin cap, fringe, vest, boots, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:54.640 little plastic bowie, knife, long muzzle loading. Must get. I 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.200 think I know this very must get you're talking about. Yeah, 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.880 so I was just like totally rigged out and of 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.640 cessed with watching the old Davy Crockett show, even though 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.960 it was like nineteen and that show ran the fifties. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.480 It was one of those deals like we still grew 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.239 up on Gilligan's Island on these older shows. Well, yeah, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.200 I think Disney Walt Disney Presents or something like that. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.720 They ran a lot of that stuff years later. Yeah, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.040 I was way into it. That's awesome because I was 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.359 into camping early on, and it was just really fit 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.160 the bill for me. I love the song the whole deal. Yeah, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.520 I had a coonskin cap too, But so did Jerry. 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.200 The only yes she did h the only extray couch 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.560 from all I had was a deer skin water bag 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.679 filled with wine. Oh yeah, yeah, a boda bag. Yeah, 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.040 I didn't have one, but Emily does and she still 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.280 puts wine in it and sneakes it in the concerts. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.239 All right, so let's do it. Uh so, Chuck, you 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.079 you made reference to Davy Crockett from the fifties, the 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:55.840 Disney thing, not Daniel Boone. No, Daniel Boone was prior 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.760 to Davy Crockett. Davy Crockett became Daniel Boone's successor. Is 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:06.720 the the um personification of the American push westward. For 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:10.040 a long time, David Crockett personified the conquering of the 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:15.600 Indian Um, the wrestling of the bear, taming of this 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:21.440 land and through America, America. Although he spent like his 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.080 entire life in Tennessee pretty much, No, that's not true. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.959 He went to Texas, he did, But he spent a 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.400 lot of time in Alabama and actually homesteaded there for 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.040 a little while around Talladega. Not for too long, though, 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.200 for long enough. Like his family in Tennessee are all 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.360 very adamant about being a lifelong Tennessee guy, right and 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.520 in his heart he would agree with that entirely. Um. 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:47.280 He was born in Tennessee, near Knoxville, Greene County. Yeah, 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.600 he uh spent most of his life there, even when 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:54.160 he argue and in O F t um, he was 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:58.560 in Tennessee, I believe for the most part. Um. He Uh. 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:04.680 His autobio bography was titled UM David Crockett of Tennessee 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:10.640 parentheses really yeah not Alabama. Yeah, he went to West 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.000 Tennessee for a while too. We'll get to all this, 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.360 but yeah, let's go back to the Disney's a volunteer. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.360 So twenty years after, Yeah it is? Is that where 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.320 it came from him? No? I don't think so. Okay, 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.000 but because he did volunteer, maybe you never know. Maybe 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:26.880 I wonder if that was like kind of a thing 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.600 and it wasn't just him. But yeah, the Tennessee is 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.240 the volunteer state, and Davy Crockett was a big time volunteer. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.560 Or maybe he felt pressure too because he was in Tennessee. 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.120 He's like, I really the peer pressure state. Want to 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:42.080 but I guess I must. Ye. Um, so Disney, I'm 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.160 talking about Disney, whether you like it or not, No, 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:45.880 but let's do it. I love that show. So twenty 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.240 years after Disney runs five episodes, that's the run of 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.640 the Davy Crockett Show. Yeah, there was only five episodes. 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:53.960 I even looked that up because I was like, that 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.080 can't be right. Yeah, I saw a hundred of them. Yeah, 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:00.040 you saw those five times each. Um, so they in 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.440 from ninety five and you was a kid in nineteen seventy, 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.680 one full year before I was born, by the way, Yeah, 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.880 I was four. I was still watching it, loving this stuff. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.880 So I had staying power. But what had even more 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.640 staying power was Davy Crockett himself, because the Disney thing 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:23.479 ran a full hundred and fifteen years after Davy Crockett died. Yeah, 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:25.680 he was already kind of a legend in his own 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.640 time as well. But this Disney thing, there was Disney 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.560 Davy Crockett fever in the mid fifties. Yeah. They supposedly 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.160 at its peak, five thousand coon skin caps a day 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:42.240 were selling. Within a couple of months of the premiere 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:47.920 of the first Davy Crockett episode, a hundred million dollars 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:52.880 had been made off of the Davy Crockett franchise. Yeah, 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.840 he just came on like a ton of bricks and uh, 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.000 of course you know the coinskin cap if you Simpsons, 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.800 Jebediagh Springfield as ensconcedin, was it bronze? Is that a 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.640 bronze statue? I can't really tell. It's on TV and 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:14.200 that cartoon form, so it's a statue. Uh. And we 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.800 don't know for sure if he actually wore a coonskin cap. 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.120 He did, Well, that's not what I saw. I saw 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.440 that Daniel Boone did not for sure, and Davy Crockett 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:28.680 more likely wore wildcatter, fox and possibly coon skin on occasion. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.200 I was gonna say that it was very apropos that 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.520 that picture of you all dolled up like Davy Crockett 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:39.000 was taken in Memphis, because that is supposedly the first 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.640 time he wore the little fringe e hunting shirt and 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.960 the coonskin cap when he had it out from Memphis 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.400 to Texas, which we'll talk about later. That's what I saw, 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.680 man alive. This is interesting, but I think this illustrates 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.719 a really great point about Davy Crockett. There are few 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:59.520 people who definitively lived who have more legends and possible 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.360 half truth swirling around them then Davy Crockett yeah. I 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.120 think some people out there might even think that he 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:07.880 wasn't even a real dude. It's just like a tall 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.880 tale guy. Yeah, you know, he very much lived. Um. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.880 And we got to mention the song. Well. First of all, 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:18.040 Fess Parker started as Davy Crockett. Best Parker also start 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.400 as Daniel Boone. Is that right? I guess they were 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:25.600 like it's typecast that um. And he also the the 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.200 TV theme song was sung by the Wellington's the famous 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:33.080 song King of the Wild Frontier. UM. But in ninety 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.320 four different people recorded it, and all four of them 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.040 in the same year recorded the same song landed in 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.320 the top ten. That's how popular that song was, or 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.520 that's how just kind of um undemanding audiences were in 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:51.160 the fifties radio audience, maybe so. But Best Parker did 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.360 one of the virsions. He also did sang yeah, man, 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.200 that guy made some dough off of Davy Crockett, unbelievable. Ironically, 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.680 he was afraid of snakes, was he really? Isn't that 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.360 a wine too? Best Parker h not a winery, not 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.239 that I don't know of. That's that's a dingy winery 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:12.760 right there. It's wine pass through. Best Parkers cap there's 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:17.720 some winery that has a name similar to that. Best Parker. Yeah, no, 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.800 nont know, Test Parker, I don't know. I know, I'm 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.080 getting confused. So I tell him about the Davy Crockett, 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.480 the U. S. Armies Davy Crockett. That was a rocket. 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.800 Did you see that thing? Uh? No? Was it cool? Yeah? Yeah, 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.720 it was in the nineteen sixties the Army. It was 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:38.200 a artillery launcher lightweight that fired mortars that had nuclear warheads, 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.320 and they called it the Davy Crockett. Yeah, it fired 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.240 seventy pound nuclear warheads. That's what it was designed to do. 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.120 And they never deployed it. But it was basically a 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.040 bunch of pipes that like you drive up on your 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.000 jeep about one to two miles away from the enemy. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.959 In Europe, the Ruskies, I guess, and assembled this thing 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.920 real quick and dropped the seventy pound warhead mortaring and 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.640 shot it off under the enemy. It was never used, 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.880 though not as far as I know. It was tested 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.120 and there's pictures of, like, I mean, it might as 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.040 well be like a GHI Joe drawing, like the pictures 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.959 of this thing being tested with like the jeep and 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.640 the guys standing next to it, and there's like, it's 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.000 just cool. You have to check that out. Yeah, Luckily, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.239 I don't think they anyone's ever set off a warhead 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:23.800 on anybody in battle, aside from Herashima Nagasaki, aside from us. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:29.520 All right, Davy Crockett shameful, um alright. So he was 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:33.640 born in Tennessee in six uh. At twelve years old, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.840 his dad sent him off to this dude, Jacob Siler, 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:43.160 to help drive cattle to Virginia, and like, you know, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.480 as a twelve year old, like they're working hard back then, 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.560 and this dude, the job ended up, you know, ended 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:55.200 and the Silas guy like forcibly detained him as like 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.080 a slave of sorts. And he was like, screw this, 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.720 I'm gonna a hike seven miles in the snow out 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.720 of here in the middle of the night. What's crazy 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.200 is in two hours? Yeah, he ran it. I don't 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.880 even think I could run on a flat plane seven 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.920 miles and two hours. Well, they don't write songs and 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.400 TV shows about either, No, they didn't. Actually, we did 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.439 have a TV show in a song about us. Yeah, 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:23.640 but we commissioned it virtually. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, alright, 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.719 So he drops out of school while he does a 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.439 lot of hooky, and his dad gets pretty ticked off 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.080 at him. So he's like, basically, I'm gonna leave home 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.160 at a young age because I'm not into the school 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:38.319 and thing. Yeah he um. He for across his lifetime 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:42.040 he became a very successful person. Um, and he kind 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.400 of wore the fact that he didn't have much school 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.280 and as a badge of honor, like he was very 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:51.560 proud of how far he'd gotten in life without formal education. Um. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:56.000 But yeah, as a kid, he hated school. Is the 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.520 impression I have. Yeah. He called it a strategic withdrawal. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.000 Left for two and a half years, came home like 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.480 a grown person. It was like sixteen, and his family 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.319 was like, who is this larger version of my son? 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.040 And they forgave him and it was all good. Yeah. 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.720 He actually stuck around and um, helped work off some 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.080 of his father's seventies six dollar debt for a year, 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.480 and went to school as a peace offering for another 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.400 six months, and then said okay, let's to forget it. 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.800 I'm gonna go make my own way. And this is 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.240 when he begins to volunteer. That's right, volunteered with the 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.600 Tennessee Militia. Yeah, his military career started. There lots of 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:34.920 militia action going on, like he was in a bunch 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.040 of different militias. It seemed like, yeah, and what he 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.520 was part of. UM is one of the more despicable 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:44.000 parts of American history, the removal of Indians, specifically, in 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.320 this case, the Southern Indians from their lands. There was 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.400 a lot of land UM in what are now the 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.920 Southern United States and southeastern United States that was right 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.520 for cotton growing, and there were a lot of people 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:03.080 who on at that land, and there were a lot 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:08.360 of treaties. Basically, the the militias would go in battle 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.280 the Creeks or the Choctaws or the Cherokees or whoever, 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.920 and UM then after their defeat, would force a treaty 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.000 on them. And Andrew Jackson, who later became president, was 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:25.040 personally responsible for nine of eleven treaties between eighteen fourteen 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:29.520 and eighteen twenty four, which means nine of eleven Indian massacres. 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.280 Basically the American h and there are massacres on both sides, 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.080 and Davy Crockett actually took place in one of the massacres. 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.440 A a attributive massacre, right, yeah. I think that was 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.640 his first military duty. He enlisted to avenge the attack 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:49.040 on Fort MEM's, Alabama, and with Andrew Jackson, Uh did 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:53.800 so Indian massacre right, very sad. Yeah, it was the 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.800 name of the town was Tolosa Hatchie and it was 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.800 in Alabama. Um. And I believe they killed about two 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:08.880 d Indian men and uh eighty four women and children 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.760 were captured. And then whoever he's left alive, I guess 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.000 Andrew Jackson came in and negotiated a treaty. They probably 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.960 kept one man alive to sign the right exactly, and 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:20.599 it basically said all the rest of you have to 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.080 get off this land, but you can go west. And 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.080 then as this happened time and time again, UM, more 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.559 and more Americans moved south and established plantations around this time. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.280 So that's the context of what was going on in Davy. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:37.760 Crockett was volunteering with the militia basically. Yeah, and it 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:41.760 seemed like he really hoped all over the place between like, uh, 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.760 some military militia work, because these are when you enlisted. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.120 It was like a ninety day enlistment. It wasn't like 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.839 years and years, UM and then like some political work 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.600 before he you know, got real serious. He was a 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.400 town commissioner for a little while. He was a Justice 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.800 of the Piece for a couple of years. So he 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.120 was just sort of floating around, a little militia work, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.680 a little political work, Indian fighting. Yeah, he was a 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.199 man of many fringe jackets. I guess he really was. Well, uh, 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.800 before we keep going, you want to do a message break, Yeah, 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:13.680 I think it's a good time. And then things get 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:22.960 serious for Davy Crockett. So we were talking Chuck about um, 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:27.920 how Davy Crockett wore many many hats, and we want 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.800 to say also that he although he was an Indian 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.280 fighter and actually became very much respected as one. That's 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.280 part of his initial legend was that he was an 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:43.120 Indian fighter, which was very much admired among UM Americans 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:50.720 at the time. UM. He eventually it parted from that 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.600 image very publicly, but first he kind of had to 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:59.840 create a public platform to do that on I guess right. Yeah, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.760 he Uh. He was a commissioner for a while in 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.560 UM Tennessee, and then he was elected to the Tennessee 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:14.800 Legislature and then finally in UM he won a seat 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.320 in Congress. Yeah, his first his first like he was 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:25.520 actual Congressional Representative Tennessee seven, that's right, and served two 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:30.280 terms and then lost basically the third term because he 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:34.640 came out so vehemently opposed to what Jackson was doing 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.440 with like taking back the land. Yeah. So the Supreme 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:42.720 Court ruled that, um, that that Native Americans had a 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.760 right to occupancy. Yes, they can live in North America, 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:51.040 but that is trumped by Americans right of discovery. Somehow 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.640 they decided that we discovered this land that you already 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.680 lived on, which trumps your right to live on it. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.960 Did that anyone ever? Say? No, no, no, we discovered 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.520 it because we're here, right, And they were cut down 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:07.840 where they stood. Um. So the the I guess the 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.800 idea the issue of Indian removal in this time was 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.680 being played out in the courts. Andrew Jackson becomes president, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.880 gets the Indian Removal Act passed through, which basically says, 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.160 I'm the president, I deal with treaties with Indians. I'm 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.280 taking this out of the hands of the courts, and 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.320 I'm by the way, Andrew Jackson, And you know how 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:28.560 I feel about Indian removal. Y'all can get out west right, 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.720 and apparently this is egregious enough to make David Krack 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.200 would say, you know what, I'm totally rethinking this land 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.800 use policy, this land grab, the Indian Removal Act. And 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.200 even though we're both from Tennessee and we're both in 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:44.000 the same political party, I'm publicly separating myself from you 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.360 and your policies. Mr President. That was a big deal 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.440 on He lost because of it, he did, but he 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:53.720 lost very narrowly, I believe two fifty two votes. Um. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.400 And actually, in our we have a video series people 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.440 called Trapped in a Meeting, And in this week's Trapped 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.160 in a Meeting, we learned that while Andrew Jackson was 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:06.600 in office, he had an assassination attempt on his life. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:11.840 And Davy Crockett, this guy like this, this mentally ill guy, 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.000 went to shoot Andrew Jackson on the steps of the Capitol. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.840 I think you remember we talked about in the Insanity 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.960 Defense episode. Yeah, and Davy Crockett was one of the 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.280 guys who subdued. He like jumped into action because he's 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.600 Davy Crockett. Yeah, even though they already a post one 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.680 another politically at this poet's still going to help save 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.480 the President stand up guy. Yeah, Davy Crock he was. 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.840 It turned out to be a pretty cool dude. Um. 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:36.720 So he loses that after for his third bid, third 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:41.199 consecutive term, he loses, uh, his bid, and um he 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.480 goes off and starts making money by making and selling 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.800 barrel staves, like the slats he used to make whiskey 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.240 and wine barrels. It's apparently it's pretty lucrative at the time. Yeah, 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.080 he almost doing it though. Yeah, there was a boat 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.040 wreck on the Mississippi River carrying those barrel staves and 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.439 he almost died then. And he almost died earlier in 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.080 his life when he had malaria when he was home 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.440 studying in Alabama. So he's he you know, he was 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:09.840 a rough and tumble guy, you know. Um. Supposedly also 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.040 during this time he killed a hundred and five bears 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.680 in a year, killed him one when he was only three, 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.359 which well, that's a Disney legend. And also we should 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.080 say that the idea that he was a King of 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.960 the Wild Frontier, that term, that label came directly from 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:27.440 Disney as well. He obviously didn't wrestle a bear when 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.680 he was only three, but he was a very well 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.080 known bear hunter. Um. Whether he killed a hundred and 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.879 five or not, that's kind of up for debate. But 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.280 if you want to read his firsthand account of it, 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:43.560 there's an awesome article called bear Hunting in Tennessee Colan 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.640 Davy Crockett tells Tall Tales. It's on George Mason University's website. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.840 Check it out. It's he's a pretty awesome author. He 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.119 was talking about how he's hunting with his eight dogs, 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.560 and his dogs are the best dogs on the planet, 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.439 flushing out bear. Um. And he saw some other fellas 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.240 come up and they wanted to hunt with him, and 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.000 they had like twenty dogs, but all the dogs were terrible. 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.280 He said they couldn't bark at a bear without having 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.199 to lean up against a tree to rest for a 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.359 little while. Um. So he left the dogs behind and 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.560 let him chew on some bare bones and he took 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:19.119 his dogs out. It's awesome, like this guy is totally 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:23.879 uneducated frontiersman who also went to Congress and kind of 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.080 a humorous too. Yeah. I think the song actually originally went, 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:31.080 um hike seven miles in the snow and two hours 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.080 when he was only twelve, and they're like, let's just 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.680 make something up. Killed him a bear. It wasn't even 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.840 killed it's k I l T killed him a bar. Yeah. Yeah, 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.920 um probe that song is still just like instantly comes 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:49.240 in my head, the lyrics and everything. So he lost 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:53.080 his third congressional bid um and then he starts gaining 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.400 more fame and notoriety. And this is at a time 0:19:55.400 --> 0:20:00.920 where you know, it's it's it was pre internet. Yeah, 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:03.639 was the pre internet a little it was pre Internet, 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:05.280 and it was a time where it was you know, 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.399 it wasn't the easiest thing to gain this kind of notoriety. 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.320 Like that just shows how popular he was, Like he 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.960 was one of the most famous people in the country. Um, 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:18.200 they had these uh Davy Crockett Almanacs published um lots 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:22.159 of books written about him. One lied and said that 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.480 it was an autobiography to sell books, and the Almanacs 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.200 actually came out of that. They used that book as 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.760 the basis of it. Yeah. So so that just kind 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:34.679 of perpetuated all these lies, and since it was attributed 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.760 to him, that gave him a reputation for spinning tall 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:43.000 tales about himself. But she didn't necessarily that that wasn't 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.880 necessarily untrue. He just didn't spin him quite as much 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.720 as as other people did about him. There was a 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.040 play by James Kirk Paulding called The Line of the West, 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:56.040 and the character Nimrod Wildfire was based on Davy Crockett. 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:00.080 And um, he finally did get together with with of 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.240 because as you said, he wasn't educated, so he had 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.359 got a little help. But he eventually did write his 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.040 own autobiography with with the help of a co author. Yeah, 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.359 he did. And um you can very much compare it 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:14.600 to Barack Obama writing The Audacity of Hope, because it 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.840 was released at a time when the Whigs were starting 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:24.439 to tout Um Davy Crockett as a possible challenger I 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:28.600 guess to Andrew Jackson for the presidency. Uh A Native 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.920 A Native A narrative of the life of Davy Crockett 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:34.639 of the State of Tennessee by Thomas Chilton, and Davy 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.919 Crockett was the official one. Yeah. So the problem is 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:43.080 Chuck he Um didn't win his re election bid, so 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:48.119 his his um idea of going into the presidency. The 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.679 primary I guess in eighteen thirty six was that his 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.760 plan that yeah, he was going along with that, and 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:56.040 some of the Whigs were like, let's do it. But 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.879 since he he was knocked out of Congress in eighteen 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.320 thirty five, he did make a third trip back to 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:06.560 Congress from eighteen to eighteen thirty five, but then he 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:12.480 was defeated by a peg leg lawyer, yeah, named Adam Huntsman. Yeah. Um, 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:16.560 very narrowly, but he lost. So I think at that 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:18.560 point he was like, I'm kind of done with Congress 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:21.480 for a while. Yeah, And that his losing to the 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:26.480 that peg leg lawyer, as he was dubbed um, gave 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:29.359 rise to his famous quote, Uh, since you have chosen 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:32.359 to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.159 you may all go to Hell and I will go 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:38.040 to Texas. And he was basically like, I want to 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.080 go check out Texas and see what's out there. You know. 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:43.080 This was like he didn't go westward, like, you know, 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:45.880 to California anything like that. Like Texas was super west 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:47.840 at the time. Yeah, and it was a Mexican state 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:50.280 that was um in a struggle for independence. There was 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:52.440 a rebellion going on there. Yeah, that's not why I 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:54.679 went though. No, apparently he got caught up in that. 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:57.600 But he went there just to explore and I was 0:22:57.640 --> 0:22:59.480 going to settle down with his family and just you know, 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:02.600 live on the hand, right, there's a lot of money 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:04.800 to be made there. Well, yeah, he said, what I've 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:07.800 seen of Texas, there is a world of country here 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:10.760 to settle. I had rather be in my present situation 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:13.320 than to be elected to a seat in Congress for life. 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:15.880 So he really thumbed his nose at politics at that time. 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:18.800