1 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: Think about it. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: If you're a factory worker and you're in Philadelphia and 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 2: it's hot and it's dirty, and you're on dirty streets 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 2: and smelly streets, and then here's this guy representing beautiful 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 2: water and green grass and you know, the wide open spaces. 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: You know you'd want more of that. It intrigued people. 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 3: On this episode, we're exploring the man many say was 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 3: America's first true celebrity, and it was built on his 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 3: identity as a bear hunter. He was world famous in 10 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 3: his lifetime, and he believed that it all came upon 11 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 3: him completely by accident. All he did was played the 12 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 3: part of himself. David Crockett, this folksy Tennessee backwoodsman, embodied 13 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 3: the narrative of the self made man and manifest destiny 14 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 3: that became a national obsession and deeply influenced our culture 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 3: even to this day. I'm interested in how his life 16 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 3: has affected my life as an American. What do you 17 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 3: know about Davy Crockett other than that he wore a 18 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,839 Speaker 3: coonskin cap. Of course, you know that that ringtail hat 19 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 3: is a low hanging field edge acren compared to what 20 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 3: we're about to discover. The crocket myth and reality will 21 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 3: be hard to parse through, but one thing's for sure. 22 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 3: I love this guy, and I doubt you're gonna want 23 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:24,199 Speaker 3: to miss this one. 24 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:29,639 Speaker 4: Folkloric characters are created and sustained because of a need 25 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 4: the culture needs them. 26 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 3: My name is Klay Nukem, and this is the Bear 27 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 3: Grease Podcast, where we'll explore things forgotten but relevant, search 28 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 3: for insight and unlikely places, and where we'll tell the 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 3: story of Americans who live their lives close to the land, 30 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 3: presented by f HF Gear, American made purpose built hunting 31 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 3: and fishing gear as designed to be as rugged as 32 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 3: the place. 33 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 5: As we explore. 34 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 3: I need a baseline understanding of what average American people 35 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 3: know about David Crockett. And in case you think of 36 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 3: already misspoken, he never called himself Davy. That didn't start 37 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 3: until one hundred and twenty years after his death. You 38 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 3: two are just the guys I've been looking for. Tell 39 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 3: me everything that you know about Davy Crockett. 40 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,519 Speaker 6: I don't know much about David Crockett. I did read 41 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 6: about him some. I know who he is, I don't 42 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 6: necessarily know where he was from. 43 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 5: From Kentucky. Close interesting? 44 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 6: Okay, all right in the area, Like, what did he do? 45 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 6: Here's a hunter, right, yeah, he's a hunter. 46 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 3: Sir, I'm talking to another gentleman here. What could you 47 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 3: fill in the gap? What do you know about David. 48 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 5: Cron I mean Davy Davy Crockett. He can go at 49 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 5: the wild Frontier. 50 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,519 Speaker 3: He killed him a bear when he was only three. 51 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 5: I love it. 52 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 3: We've tapped into some skeletal details about Crockett. He was 53 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 3: from Tennessee and a bear hunter, true story, but he 54 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 3: didn't kill a bear when he was only three. Can 55 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 3: you sing that song? The fact that this dude can 56 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,839 Speaker 3: sing this song means something. He was reaching deep into 57 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 3: the recesses of his childhood. I need more info from 58 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 3: these American commoners. Excuse me, sir, what what do you 59 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 3: know about Davy Crockett. 60 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 5: Davy Crockett, he was a man's man. Okay, then I 61 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 5: don't know anything about David Crily. You don't know anything. 62 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 3: You don't have any sense of where it's from, what 63 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 3: he did, how he affected American identity. 64 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 5: No comment. You're you're a you're a well educated man too, Senator, 65 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 5: I do not recall are you an American? 66 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 7: It's hard to tell country it's hard to know. Parley 67 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 7: on Glass, I don't I don't know. 68 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 3: He was a man's man. Did Crockett give our culture 69 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 3: ideas about manhood? This is getting out of hand. I'm 70 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 3: very interested in how we're unconsciously born with a value 71 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,720 Speaker 3: system because of a geographic location. Most of the world, 72 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 3: especially at the time of Crockett, didn't identify with the 73 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 3: American value system. 74 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 5: It was completely new. 75 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 3: This is Josh Landbridge, Spillmaker and his wife Christie. 76 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: He was a big man, Davy Crockett. 77 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 3: Wasn't there a song about him? 78 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 5: A Disney song. 79 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 7: About Davy Crockett was at the Alamo? Yeah, and he 80 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 7: was the king of the wildfront here. He was the 81 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 7: king of the wild Frontier. Definitely. Yes, he wore buckskin. 82 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 5: Skin hat, for sure. 83 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 7: He wore con't skin hat. I think that's a I 84 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 7: think that's a farce. 85 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 5: But wasn't he a giant man? No? 86 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 3: Do you have any of how d C. Davy Crockett 87 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 3: influenced American identity, like even how you think about yourself? No, 88 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 3: you guys did pretty good in the song the Walt 89 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 3: Disney song, Davey Crockett was king of the wild Frontier. 90 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 3: He was roughly six foot tall, so it wasn't giant. 91 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 3: He's from Tennessee. He wore a coonskin hat only after 92 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 3: there was a play about him in New York City 93 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 3: and the actor wore a coonskin hat, and then for 94 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 3: a good part of his life he started wearing a 95 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 3: coonskin hat after that. 96 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 7: So I mean legendary character, but none of us know 97 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 7: what the legend is all about. Like I think every 98 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 7: American would be familiar with the name Davy Crockett, but 99 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 7: not know why. 100 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 3: Well, what you're gonna learn is is that David Crockett 101 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 3: was truly America's first celebrity. Daniel Boone was our first, 102 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 3: one of our first folk heroes. D c was truly 103 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 3: a celebrity, global celebrity. 104 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 8: Born on them out the top of Tennessee Breen Estate, 105 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 8: in the Land of the Three, raised in the woods, 106 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 8: so than you ever Tree killed Tim Lebar when he 107 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 8: was only three day. Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, 108 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 8: walk single handed through the engine war till the Greeks whipped. 109 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 3: And the piece that song is the Ballad of Davy 110 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 3: Crockett from Walt Disney's nineteen fifty four David Crockett trilogy. 111 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 3: The song seems to be embedded in the hearts of 112 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 3: all American boys over the age of forty. It was 113 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 3: number one on the Top ten list in America for 114 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 3: thirteen weeks and sold over four million copies. It was 115 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 3: a true American hit at almost the exact same time 116 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 3: Elvis Presley came onto the scene. Crockett had two surging 117 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 3: peaks of American and even global popularity, one starting in 118 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 3: the eighteen thirties in his lifetime, in the second one 119 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 3: in the nineteen fifties. National myths are simple, but their 120 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 3: real story, usually based in some level of truth, is 121 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 3: more complex. Crockett was a Tennessee pioneer born in seventeen 122 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 3: eighty six. 123 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 5: He was a renowned bear hunter and houndsman. 124 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 3: He fought in the Creek Indian Wars, which was part 125 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 3: of the War of eighteen twelve, and he became one 126 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 3: of America's first commoner politicians, or what we'd call a populist. 127 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 3: He almost ran for president and was the arch enemy 128 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 3: of Old Hickory himself Andrew Jackson, who had become president. 129 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 3: But most notably he was the wild American backwoodsman that 130 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 3: gained global fame in his lifetime because of his folksy, witty, humorous, 131 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 3: self deprecating way of communicating. But of all that stuff, 132 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 3: he most identified as a bear hunter. 133 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 5: I love it. In the words of Cross biographer Michael. 134 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 3: Wallace, his bear hunting ability became a key ingredient in 135 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 3: the manufacture of the populist, hyper masculine persona he often 136 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 3: used to bolster his public image and political career. 137 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 5: End of quote. 138 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 3: But Crockett would seal his fame and myth in America's 139 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 3: Hall of Fame when he died of martyr at the 140 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 3: Alamo in Texas in eighteen thirty six. It's the age 141 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 3: of forty nine, which there is much controversy around his 142 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 3: martyr status, and we'll get into that in later episodes. 143 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 3: So bam, there you go. That's Crockett in a nutshell. 144 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 3: Our story delivery strategy is that we're gonna look at 145 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 3: Crockett's influence first, so we just kind of understand what 146 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 3: he did and how he did it, and then we'll 147 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 3: dive into the specifics of his life that made him. 148 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 3: We're gonna spend a lot of time on Crockett because 149 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 3: of how important he was to American culture and let's 150 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 3: head something off at the pass. Many would view our 151 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 3: below of Daniel Boone and David Crockett as basically the 152 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 3: same person, and there were many confusing commonalities, but they're 153 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 3: very different people at different times did different stuff. However, 154 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 3: they were both involved in claiming land on the western 155 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 3: frontier that were commercial hunters, were involved in Native American conflicts. 156 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 3: Both were failed entrepreneurs, both were in politics. Both were 157 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 3: renowned storytellers that people were enamored with. However, Crockett was 158 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,439 Speaker 3: much more of what we would call a true celebrity. 159 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 3: He knew about his fame, he interacted with that fame, 160 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 3: but Daniel Boone dB didn't gain his fame until he 161 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 3: was in his mid fifties, and he would die a 162 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,079 Speaker 3: common impoverished man in Missouri in eighteen twenty at the 163 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 3: age of eighty six. Boone was fifty two years old 164 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 3: when Crockett was born in seventeen eighty six. Their lives overlapped, 165 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 3: but they never met. Probably the main reason people get 166 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 3: him mixed up is because the same Hollywood actor Fest 167 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 3: Parker played Crockett in the nineteen fifty five Walt Disney. 168 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 3: David Crockett trilogy and fest Parker, very confusingly, also starred 169 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 3: as Daniel Boone in Disney's nineteen sixty series. In both, 170 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 3: he wore buckskin, a coonskin hat, fought indians, shot a 171 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 3: long rifle. But perhaps the differences in Boone are inconsequential 172 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 3: to the masses, and in some ways they represent similar things. 173 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 3: But to those of us desirous of parsing out the 174 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 3: nuance of that backwoods, rough and tumble, self made man 175 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 3: identity that we just woke up and found ourselves in, 176 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 3: the distinction between Boone and Crockett is important. More on 177 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 3: this later, bros. Here's the clip from Disney's wildly popular 178 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 3: David Crockett Indian Fighters. 179 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 6: Pucket. 180 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 4: Where's Crockett? 181 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 9: Speak up? Man? 182 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 5: Where is Crockett? Soldiers are looking for Crockett, But he's 183 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 5: in the bushes with a growling bear. 184 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 9: Where is he? 185 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 5: A man points in the bushes? 186 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 9: What's he doing in there? 187 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: What's he doing? 188 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:17,839 Speaker 5: Experimenting? 189 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 9: He's trying to grin down a bear. 190 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 5: Grin down, you backwards buffalos. 191 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 9: Think the rest of us will believe anything, don't you Crockett? Crockett, 192 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 9: can't you hear me? Come out of here man. 193 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 5: Crockett's thrown out of the woods by the beast. 194 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 9: You sure sparm things good. Now I gotta do it 195 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 9: the old fashion way, Eh give my perd. 196 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 3: Crockett's experiment grinning down the bear fails, so he goes 197 00:11:55,120 --> 00:12:00,959 Speaker 3: back in with his knife to finish the job. Crockett 198 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 3: was the original voice of American frontier dialect that touched 199 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 3: the world. He was a folksy orator, had an unquenchable 200 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:12,439 Speaker 3: reservoir of anecdotes with keen, humorous wit. In real life, 201 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 3: he often said that he could grin a coon out 202 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 3: of a tree, and even grinned down a bear. Disney 203 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:23,680 Speaker 3: didn't make this up. Crockett did once in a political speech. 204 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 3: The real Crocket, not the actor, said this, I discovered 205 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 3: a long time ago that a coon couldn't stand my grin. 206 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 3: I could bring one tumbling down from the highest tree. 207 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 3: I never wasted, powdered and lead when I wanted one. 208 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 5: Of those creatures. 209 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 3: He went on to describe how he once thought he 210 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 3: was grinned out a coon, but it turned out to 211 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 3: be a knot on a tree branch, and he said, 212 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 3: I saw that I grinned all the bark off that 213 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 3: tree and left the knot perfectly smooth. Now, fellow citizens, 214 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 3: you must be convinced that in the grinning line, I 215 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 3: myself am not slow. Yet when I look upon my 216 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:05,680 Speaker 3: opponent's countenance. Remember he's talking about his political opponent, I 217 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 3: must admit that he is my superior. 218 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 5: You must all admit it. 219 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 3: Therefore, be wide awake, look sharp, and don't let him 220 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:18,199 Speaker 3: grina out of your votes. Crockett proved to be an 221 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 3: incredibly savvy politician, self deprecating, funny, but always sincere what 222 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 3: he was saying. That his opponent was all smile, an 223 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 3: elite pretty boy, but Crockett smile could actually do something 224 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 3: for you. Crockett would become famous for his political antics 225 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 3: and showdowns. More on this later. Here is author and 226 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 3: Crockett biographer R. Scott Williams of West Tennessee. He wrote 227 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 3: a book called the Accidental Fame and Lack of Fortune 228 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 3: of West Tennessee's David Crockett. 229 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 5: There are a. 230 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 3: Ton of Crockett biographies. We're inside an authentic log cabin 231 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 3: at the Discovery Park of America Museum in Union City, Tennessee. 232 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 3: It's incredible. 233 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 2: I mean, the way I've been describing it is he 234 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 2: is America's first celebrity. I've got a poster in my 235 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 2: office of folk heros from the United States, and each 236 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 2: one is placed in the state where they're from, and 237 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 2: so there's an awful lot of foulk heroes. But I 238 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 2: would definitely say, in my opinion, he was the first celebrity. 239 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 2: He had lithographs with his image and his signature printed 240 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 2: and sold. You know, I don't know if any you know, 241 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 2: certainly Daniel Boone. 242 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: Never did anything like that. You know, he went on 243 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: a book tour. 244 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 2: He saw that people were making money off his name, 245 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 2: image and likeness, and so he wanted a piece of it, 246 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 2: and so he himself went to somebuddies that could help 247 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 2: him write and publish this autobiography and then went on 248 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 2: a book tour, you know. And so you read about 249 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 2: that book tour and the audiences were screaming and yelling, 250 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 2: and you know, I think he absolutely Lee was the 251 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 2: first in his lifetime, first and biggest celebrity. 252 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 3: David Crockett was considered an exotic celebrity who rose amid 253 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 3: America's growing nationalism. We were feverishly grasping for identity that 254 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 3: would signify how we were different than the Europe from 255 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 3: which we were hewn. The eyes of the world were 256 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 3: on the western edge of the American frontier. I think 257 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 3: it's hard for us to understand today how intriguing American 258 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 3: expansion into the West was. It was a wildly unknown world, 259 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 3: just first explored by Lewis and Clark in eighteen oh four, 260 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 3: and it was considered a wilderness free to those brave 261 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 3: enough to come and take it, in a world dominated 262 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 3: by poverty and personal land ownership only for the ultra wealthy. 263 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 3: There is nothing like this in the world today, a 264 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 3: land grab like this, and nor will there ever be again. 265 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 3: A very important piece of the Crocket puzzle is understanding 266 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:05,239 Speaker 3: the worldview and characteristics of his people, the Ulster Scots 267 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 3: from Ireland. Man, I told you this is going to 268 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 3: be a deep due boy. You guys remember Robert Morgan, 269 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 3: the author of the best Boone biography of all time Boone, 270 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 3: but he's also a Crockett expert. 271 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 5: Here's mister Morgan. 272 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 4: There's a long history of the Ulster Scots and it 273 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 4: does explain, I think the aggressiveness of people looking for land. 274 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 4: They had been encouraged. Let's say to leave Scotland to 275 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 4: go to Northern Ireland and settle there, to have a 276 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 4: Protestant presence in this Catholic country, and were offered land, 277 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 4: and of course land was the important thing. Land was 278 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 4: owned by the big land owners, the gentry, the aristocracy, 279 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 4: and the best you could do the poor person was 280 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 4: pay quit rents and their lease. So they had moved 281 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 4: over from Scotland, and then the upper class wanted that land, 282 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 4: so they were kicked off and many came to North America. 283 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 4: That was the thing where there's lots and lots of land. 284 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 4: So these people had basically been kicked off land in 285 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,360 Speaker 4: Scotland and then Northern Ireland. And we was so hungry 286 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:28,679 Speaker 4: to own land and to be able to hunt, to 287 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,159 Speaker 4: be able to go into the wilderness and arrive in 288 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,879 Speaker 4: the New world. And there's an infinite amount of land 289 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 4: and deer and bear and smaller animals. So where would 290 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 4: they go. The free land or the cheap land is 291 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 4: on the frontier. And those people are really a part 292 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 4: of the settlement in the history of the United States. 293 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 4: They were re aggressive, they were determined, they learned to 294 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 4: use weapons, They were willing to go into the wilderness 295 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 4: and nothing was going to stop from no treaties, no laws, 296 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 4: no Indians, anything that stood in their way to have land. Yeah, 297 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 4: it's hard for us to understand that hunger and the 298 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,640 Speaker 4: idea of letting the native people stand in the way 299 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 4: to them were just ridiculous. The scott Irish were very, 300 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 4: very determined and aggressive and explain an awful lot of 301 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 4: the history of the frontier. They were not alone. There 302 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 4: were Germans, there were welsh People, people from England, people 303 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 4: from Scotland. But the most aggressive people, I think were 304 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 4: the scotch Irish. They have names like Jackson and Crockett. 305 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 3: The people of the United States and Europe couldn't intake 306 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 3: enough media about the Frontier, this thin edge where our 307 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 3: people met the wilderness. 308 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 5: That's where Crockett was. 309 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 3: The frontier became the breeding grounds of our national identity 310 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 3: and the new to the world democratic ideas of the 311 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 3: self made man. From this unique situation, creating a unique ideology, 312 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 3: America grew to become one of human history's most powerful empires. 313 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 3: It wasn't just a land grab, but it was an 314 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 3: experiment in government and ideology, and this ideology became attached 315 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 3: to people who gained mythical status at this time as 316 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 3: the hype of the moment became personified and in Crockett's time, 317 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 3: and even after almost two hundred years since his death, 318 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 3: he still carries the baton. 319 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 5: Here's mister Morgan. 320 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 4: We can only speculate on why would he become such 321 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 4: a celebrity. Well, he was charming, he was funny, but 322 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 4: he met a need. Folkloric characters are created and sustained 323 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 4: because of a need the culture needs them. Daniel Boone 324 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 4: becomes so famous because they needed somebody who with a 325 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,719 Speaker 4: great gone into the wilderness, who was self sufficient. Johnny 326 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:09,439 Speaker 4: Appleseed becomes this iconic figure because this aggressive society needs 327 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 4: a folkloreis figure who's so gentle and doesn't kill the 328 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 4: Indians and plants apple trees and thought they need that 329 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 4: kind of character as opposed to the people who kill 330 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 4: the Indians take their land. And Crockett becomes so famous 331 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,439 Speaker 4: because at that particular point is eighteen and thirty, the 332 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 4: country needs, on the one hand, somebody looked down on, 333 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 4: not as good as they are, but somebody who's really 334 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 4: smart and funny and tells these jokes. And again the 335 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 4: parallel is with the minstrel shows and all these people 336 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 4: in the Northeast and to somebody in the South, are 337 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,199 Speaker 4: amused by this fellow who's not quality, but he's a 338 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 4: lot of fun. We can you know. He's from the cane, 339 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 4: he's from the backwoods. He has it double because the 340 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 4: people from the backwoods and the working people, so he's 341 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 4: popular with everybody. 342 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 3: The people from the city thought he was a sensational, 343 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,400 Speaker 3: crass wild man, and the people from the backwoods thought 344 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 3: he was one of them. On all sides, people had 345 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 3: reasons to be attracted to Crockett. It's interesting to me 346 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,719 Speaker 3: that many of the armor bearers of American identity weren't 347 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 3: the rich, elite, and educated, but rather a category unique 348 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 3: to the world, the backwoodsman. 349 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 5: Crockett was a. 350 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,439 Speaker 3: Part of the first generation to carry America's torch without 351 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 3: the help of the founding fathers. Author Paul Hutton said 352 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 3: the rise of men like Crockett represented to many the 353 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 3: triumph of pure democracy and a complete rejection of European 354 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 3: values of social class and aristocracy. These were common men 355 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 3: who made their economic and political fortunes through hard work 356 00:21:55,320 --> 00:22:01,159 Speaker 3: coupled with natural ability. Crockett came to symbolize a rough egality, freedom, 357 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 3: of opportunity, manifest destiny, and reaffirmation of the cherished principles 358 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 3: of the Declaration of Independence. 359 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 5: End of quote. 360 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 3: I think part of the reason Americans are so enamored 361 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 3: or appalled by Britain's royal family is because of how 362 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 3: we've outright rejected the idea of a monarchy. 363 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 5: It's so foreign to us. 364 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 3: A king, a man given honor and title without merit 365 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 3: because of his birth. I know some of you boys 366 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 3: probably don't even know it, but King Charles was just 367 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 3: made king yep. I think gazing upon the antithesis of 368 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 3: our values helps us define our values. 369 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 5: It helps to define what we're not. 370 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 3: A deep American value is that you get what you 371 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 3: have by merit. But honestly, this is even a myth. 372 00:22:54,720 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 3: Here's more from Scott on Crockett's influence. Why was Americas 373 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,360 Speaker 3: so enamored with this guy? 374 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:02,959 Speaker 8: Like? 375 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 3: What, what did he do? What was the character of 376 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 3: him that made him so so appealing? 377 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 2: I think it was a combination of humor. I think 378 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 2: he was funny, you know. I think he was one 379 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 2: of America's first comedians. I think that he was self depreciating, 380 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 2: and so I think that was something that people weren't 381 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 2: used to. 382 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: He was representing America's future. 383 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 2: So if this guy's out there, look how successful he is, 384 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 2: Look what he's doing. 385 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: And I think for them that was exciting. 386 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 2: It was an exciting time to think there's brand new 387 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 2: lands that we can you know, imagine if we had 388 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 2: millions of acres and it's available and we're trying to decide, 389 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 2: You and I are trying to decide, Hey, are we 390 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 2: going to hitch our wagons up and wagon train over there. 391 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 2: My own ancestors settled on Revolutionary Land, Grant Land here 392 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 2: in in West Tennessee, so they were probably influenced by Crockett, absolutely, 393 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 2: you know, and he was there represented. So my ancestors 394 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 2: traveled across the state and settled here and then they 395 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 2: did not leave until my parents went to college in 396 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 2: the fifties. And so both sides of my family come 397 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 2: out of that group of people. You know, those were 398 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 2: the kind of people that David Crockett was representing. People 399 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 2: with enough spirit and enough attitude that they're willing to 400 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 2: say goodbye to their families forever, knowing that they will 401 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 2: probably never see their friends and family and loved ones 402 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 2: ever again. And so they carved out. You know, the 403 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 2: land was rough and they carved it out and began farming. 404 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 2: And for somebody who's up north, who's a shopkeeper, who's wanting. 405 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 5: Who was well established in a place and probably never 406 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:43,919 Speaker 5: going to. 407 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 2: Leave, right, But some of those people, I think David 408 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 2: Crockett was maybe sparking a sense of curiosity. 409 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:51,880 Speaker 5: He had something for everybody. 410 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,159 Speaker 3: For the person that wasn't going to leave, he was 411 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 3: just intriguing and entertaining, right, But then he was also 412 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 3: spurring some of those people to go to go. Yeah, 413 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 3: it was just a he was just the right voice 414 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 3: at the right time. 415 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 2: That's a great point, is it really was. He was 416 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 2: at the right place at the right time. 417 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:09,880 Speaker 5: Yeah. 418 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:11,200 Speaker 1: Think about it. 419 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 2: If you're a factory worker and you're in Philadelphia and 420 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 2: it's hot, and it's you know, it's dirty, and you're 421 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 2: on dirty streets and smelly streets, and then here's this 422 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 2: guy representing beautiful water and green grass and you know, 423 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 2: the wide open spaces. 424 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 1: You know, you'd want more of that. You'd want to 425 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: read about it, you know. 426 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 2: And so it was in magazine articles and plays, as 427 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 2: we mentioned, in books, and you know it it intrigued people. 428 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 5: It intrigued people. 429 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 3: In eighteen thirty one, a newspaper labeled Crockett an object 430 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 3: of universal notoriety. Author Paul Hutton said he represented the 431 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 3: quote dawning age of the common man, who symbolized Western 432 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 3: egalitarianism and unbridled opportunity. So Crockett again had two surges 433 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,919 Speaker 3: of fame in America, the first starting in the eighteen 434 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 3: thirties during his life and lasting for decades after his death. 435 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 3: But again his popularity surged in the nineteen fifties with 436 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 3: that Disney movie and song. We've established that he was 437 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 3: a celebrity in his own time, primarily because of his 438 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 3: political prominence, which led him to writing an autobiography released 439 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 3: only after several other fake autobiographies had come out. And 440 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 3: you can understand why that would be frustrating. People were 441 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 3: writing fake stories about it, so he had to write 442 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 3: his own to rectify his reputation. Crockett's real autobiography was 443 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 3: essentially a New York Times bestseller. You can order it 444 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:44,360 Speaker 3: today on Amazon, and unlike Boone, we can hear firsthand 445 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,120 Speaker 3: the written voice of David Crockett. If you remember multiple 446 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 3: times Boone's attempts at an autobiography were spoiled once an 447 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 3: entire manuscript was lost. And one of the great mysteries 448 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 3: of Boone is that we never really heard his unfilm 449 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 3: altered voice. Not so with Crockett, and I think that 450 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 3: might even be to his detriment. When you see someone 451 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 3: as honest and vulnerable as Crockett, they become easier to criticize. 452 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 3: But I think it's important we understand why we're still 453 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 3: talking about Crockett today. Walt Disney laid the modern track 454 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 3: for hyper commercializing our heroes using Crockett in the nineteen fifties. 455 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,919 Speaker 3: This was a big one and the first time it 456 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 3: was really done at this extent. 457 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 5: Scott previously worked for Elvis Presley. 458 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 3: Enterprises, so he understands Americans marketing their heroes. 459 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 2: Coming from the Elvis world, I know a little bit 460 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 2: about licensed product and paraphernalia and memorabilia, and they had 461 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 2: never seen anything like it before. And honestly, since the 462 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 2: amount of David Crockett, Davy Crockett is what they call it, 463 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 2: the amount of Davy Crockett and Dice that was produced 464 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 2: and manufactured and distributed and sold was just. 465 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:06,640 Speaker 5: Incredibly heard of. 466 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 2: Disney was making millions of dollars off of this. Today, 467 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 2: if somebody's even curious and looking, you can go to 468 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 2: eBay and search Davy Crockett and you'll see everything imaginable 469 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 2: from the guitars. 470 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,880 Speaker 5: Old stuff from that time, from. 471 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 2: That time, from that little era. Because it came and 472 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 2: then it went. I mean when it ended, it ended 473 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:29,159 Speaker 2: like a lead balloon. 474 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: It was over. 475 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,640 Speaker 2: You couldn't sell anything else, they didn't manufacture anything else. 476 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:33,200 Speaker 5: It was over. 477 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,119 Speaker 2: So there's this era in there where he was the 478 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 2: hottest thing going. So many little boys and girls bought 479 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 2: raccoon skin caps that they were worried raccoons were going 480 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 2: to go extinct. 481 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 5: Wow, that's incredible. 482 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: It is. 483 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 2: It is when you look at the amount of coontails. 484 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 2: They started selling skunt tails and nye in them so that. 485 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 5: It would they didn't have enough. They ran out of raccoons. 486 00:28:58,680 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: Wow. 487 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 5: Man, that's that's a conservation. 488 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 3: That would be the answer to some of our conservation 489 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 3: issues right now with raccoons eating our turkey and coil eggs. Man, 490 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 3: we need to revive Davy Crockett the coonskin hat. 491 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 5: That's a personal mission of mine. 492 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. We used to start wearing wearing 493 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 1: a coonskin. 494 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 5: Cat, Scott, it's already happening. 495 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 3: I've got more authentic hound treed Ozark Mountain coonskin hats 496 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 3: than I have broke mules. But for whatever reason, in 497 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 3: all the literature, coon hides were recorded as sold by 498 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 3: the pound, so hides went from twenty five cents a 499 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 3: pound to over six dollars per pound, creating a two 500 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 3: thousand percent increase in the price of coon hides in 501 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 3: nineteen fifty six that were selling over five thousand coonskin 502 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 3: hats every day. That's putting a herd on old Ricky raccoon. 503 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 3: But don't feel bad. 504 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 5: Today. 505 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 3: Per the Science, raccoon numbers in North America are soaring 506 00:29:55,280 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 3: and are far above pre European settlement numbers. Scott makes 507 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 3: a point in his book that today Crockett would hardly 508 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 3: be remembered if it wasn't for Disney to think of 509 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 3: us sitting here and David Crockett being just kind of 510 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 3: like a yeah, he was a guy that, you know, 511 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 3: just kind of an obscure character in history. Because David 512 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 3: Well Davy Crockett, what Disney made him, that name would 513 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 3: probably be equivalent to the the top most recognized names 514 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 3: maybe in the world. 515 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 5: Is that you think that would be true? 516 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 2: Oh well, certainly if you were going to take me 517 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 2: to Disneyland Paris, the most popular place to go is 518 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 2: the Davy Crockett campground where they have a large in Paris, 519 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 2: and so they have Davy Crockett, they have it's all themed. 520 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 2: You know what what Europeans must think. We live like 521 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 2: here in West Endessee, but with wagon wheel salad bars 522 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 2: and little carved animals out of wood everyone where and 523 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 2: today right now. So yeah, I mean, I would say 524 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 2: you would be hard pressed to mention the word Davy 525 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 2: Crockett to somebody and not have them at least recognize 526 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 2: the name and know that he was somebody famous. 527 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 3: As much as Crockett was commercialized even in his time, 528 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 3: there was a lot of moral substance in American hunting 529 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 3: grit in this Crockett, and I don't want us to 530 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 3: think that he was all show. 531 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 5: He was the real deal. But as we examined his. 532 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 3: Influence on early American culture, we can't go any further 533 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 3: without talking about the. 534 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 5: Broadway play in. 535 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 3: New York City called The Lion of the West, which 536 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 3: came out in eighteen thirty one. Crockett had nothing to 537 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 3: do with it, but the main character's name was Nimrod Wildfire, 538 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 3: and everyone in the country knew it was supposed to 539 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 3: be Crockett. So much of the fame Crockett got he 540 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,480 Speaker 3: never asked for, nor did the things he did seem 541 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 3: like they would get this kind of return on investment. 542 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 3: He was just a normal dude being himself. I think 543 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 3: Crockett was as surprised as anyone. In the foreword of 544 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 3: Crockett's autobiography, he says, I know that, as obscure as 545 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 3: I am, that my name is making a considerable deal 546 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 3: of fuss in the world. I can't tell why it is, 547 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 3: nor in what it is to end go where I will. 548 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 3: Everybody seems anxious to get a peep at me, and 549 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 3: it would be hard to tell which would have the advantage. 550 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 3: If I the government, and a black Hawk, and a 551 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 3: great eternal caravan of wild barments were all to be 552 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 3: shown at the same time in four different parts of 553 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 3: any of the big cities of the nation. I am 554 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 3: not so sure that I shouldn't get the most custom 555 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 3: of any crew. There must therefore, be something in me 556 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 3: or about me that attracts attention which is even mysterious 557 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 3: to myself. Sometimes Crockett's assessments of himself can sound air 558 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 3: on paper, but when you look at him in so 559 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 3: many areas of his life, he was humble, generous, loyal, loving, 560 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 3: and empathetic to the poor. I think a good editor 561 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 3: could have helped Crockett tone down the vibe he was 562 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 3: putting out and it wouldn't have come across as so arrogant. 563 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 3: But back to the play The Lion of the West. 564 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 3: Here is the line that comes from the play, not Crockett. 565 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 3: And see if you think it sounds like Crockett. He said, 566 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 3: and let all the fellers in New York know that 567 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 3: I'm half horse, half alligator, a touch of earthquake with 568 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 3: a sprinkle in a steamboat. 569 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,959 Speaker 5: If I ain't, I wish I may be shot. End 570 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 5: of quote. This was the line in the. 571 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 3: Play, but Crockett was actually quoted once is saying, I'm 572 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 3: that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half horse, 573 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 3: half alligator, a little touched with snapping turtle. I can 574 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 3: wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak 575 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 3: of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a Honey 576 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 3: Locust and I can whip my weight in Wildcats. He 577 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 3: actually said that it's clear this play was about Crockett. 578 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:08,320 Speaker 3: Here's Scott. 579 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,360 Speaker 2: Well, David Crockett didn't say it was David Crockett, and 580 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,440 Speaker 2: they never really said this is David Crockett. 581 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,319 Speaker 5: But the character wore. 582 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,360 Speaker 2: A wild cat on its head, you know, which is 583 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,160 Speaker 2: really where the idea of Davy Crockett. 584 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 1: Wharing a kunskin cap came from. 585 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 2: And so it was the most performed play in the 586 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,399 Speaker 2: world at the time. So this play was all over 587 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,239 Speaker 2: Europe and you can actually find it online and there's 588 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 2: a lot of really interesting things written about that play 589 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,759 Speaker 2: because it was a very early theatrical you know, it 590 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 2: was an example of an early American performance, which at 591 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,360 Speaker 2: the time they were bringing in a lot of places 592 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,799 Speaker 2: from Europe, but there wasn't yet a big strong American 593 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 2: culture of the popular culture, of even music, and a 594 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:52,960 Speaker 2: lot of things were coming over from Europe. 595 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:59,520 Speaker 1: But Crockett was the first embodiment of true American culture. 596 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 2: And so these plays are being performed and this character 597 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:09,279 Speaker 2: Nimrod Wildfire is saying these words on stage, and journalists 598 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,359 Speaker 2: are writing it down and saying David Crockett said blah 599 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 2: blah blah, and so so without anybody even doing anything, 600 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 2: the media played a part in people suddenly thinking that 601 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,320 Speaker 2: David Crockett is Nimrod Wildfire. 602 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, which was fascinating, isn't it wild? 603 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 3: It seems like all throughout history media plays such a 604 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:34,759 Speaker 3: powerful role inside of even writing, the functionality of what 605 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 3: people believe about what happened. I mean, it happened with Boone, 606 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 3: like Daniel Boone, this formative American archetype. 607 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 5: You know. 608 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 3: The only reason we know about him is he there 609 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 3: was a chapter in a book written about him when 610 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 3: he was in his fifties, right, And all of a 611 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 3: sudden we hear about Boone and his myth and lord 612 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 3: grows and grows, and then here Crockett. 613 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:55,759 Speaker 5: The reason we know Crockett. 614 00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 3: I mean, obviously it's because of media, because people talking, writing, 615 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:04,720 Speaker 3: doing stuff. But they were looking for what would sell, 616 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 3: what the American public wanted to hear about, would be 617 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,640 Speaker 3: interested in. And then here was this wild cat on 618 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,080 Speaker 3: the frontier that was this great orator. 619 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,239 Speaker 2: Well, and he was just responding to a gut instinct constantly, 620 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,799 Speaker 2: you know, and he was he just barreled through and 621 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,360 Speaker 2: so you know, it was fascinating to see how he 622 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,680 Speaker 2: didn't hesitate, and you know, he didn't always know he 623 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 2: was right, and he just barreled through and did stuff. 624 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,759 Speaker 3: One of Crockett's sayings he said, be sure you're right 625 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:30,560 Speaker 3: and then go. 626 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,080 Speaker 2: Ahead, exactly, and that's what he and to me, it's fascinating. 627 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,920 Speaker 1: Here's this guy who had a tagline. Yeah, he wrote 628 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 1: that everywhere. 629 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:43,040 Speaker 2: Go ahead became a huge popular culture thing that people 630 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 2: would say and attribute to him, Joha and poster be 631 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,799 Speaker 2: sure you're right, then go ahead. When the Queen made 632 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,000 Speaker 2: a carriage for Tiny Tim as a gift, she put 633 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:53,400 Speaker 2: go ahead on. 634 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 1: The side of it. 635 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:54,520 Speaker 5: Wow. 636 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,319 Speaker 2: Also another thing that I found was interesting as I 637 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 2: was looking and researching, and I came upon several instances 638 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:05,160 Speaker 2: of a popular culture saying at the time around his 639 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,680 Speaker 2: death and after his death was like, if you were 640 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,960 Speaker 2: to brag to me, I would say, yeah, that may 641 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 2: be true, but it's nothing to crock it. And so 642 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 2: people would say, it's nothing to Crockett. And that was 643 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 2: a famous saying that people said. 644 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:21,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, Crockett was the embodiment of the first true American culture. 645 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,000 Speaker 3: We were starving for American things. That weren't connected to Europe. 646 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,839 Speaker 3: Crockett had his own tagline in a world with social media. 647 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,840 Speaker 3: It's easy to understand how this could happen. But imagine 648 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,360 Speaker 3: the energy and hype that would have had to have 649 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,040 Speaker 3: followed this guy for his catch phrase to be so widespread. 650 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,760 Speaker 3: But I guess one could say that's nothing to Crockett. 651 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,280 Speaker 3: As we're learning the Crockett story, I want to introduce 652 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,719 Speaker 3: him to you in four distinct sections of his identity. 653 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,439 Speaker 3: This is the way that America knew him. And we'll 654 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,720 Speaker 3: go through these sections chronologically so you can understand where 655 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:02,440 Speaker 3: these identities arose. And first, I want to introduce you 656 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:07,319 Speaker 3: to Crockett the bear hunter. This was the foundation of 657 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,320 Speaker 3: his fame. Here's mister Morgan. 658 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,560 Speaker 4: Well, there weren't many bears around eastern Tennessee then. It 659 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,040 Speaker 4: was only when he got to central Tennessee that there 660 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,040 Speaker 4: were enough bears for him to become a bear hunter. 661 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,799 Speaker 4: But he hated farming and he loved hunting, and he 662 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,200 Speaker 4: particularly liked bear hunting. I mean, there were deer and 663 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:30,080 Speaker 4: other things he hunted, but he discovered his great talent. 664 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 4: He was better at bear hunting than anybody else. And 665 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,640 Speaker 4: when he got to that region where there were a 666 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,600 Speaker 4: lot of bears. That's what he loved to spend his 667 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,600 Speaker 4: time doing. And I guess he could make some money 668 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,680 Speaker 4: out of that too. You can sell the oil and 669 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,759 Speaker 4: meat and the skin. And he became very famous in 670 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 4: that region as a bear hunter. And there are three Crocketts, 671 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,560 Speaker 4: maybe four Crocketts, and one of them is the bear Hunter, 672 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,680 Speaker 4: the great bear Hunter. And there's the politics, and there's 673 00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:05,360 Speaker 4: the martyr at the Alamo. But I think there's a fourth, 674 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,840 Speaker 4: which is the soldier in the Greek War, which happened 675 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,480 Speaker 4: a little later in eighteen fourteen. But the bear hunters 676 00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:17,720 Speaker 4: is the original one. He was known. He was famous 677 00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,520 Speaker 4: as the bear hunter, and he was famous at telling 678 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:20,439 Speaker 4: stories about it. 679 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,400 Speaker 3: Too, and he used that in his political career for 680 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,520 Speaker 3: the rest of his life. Is he talked about bear hunting. 681 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,880 Speaker 3: He told stories about it, and that was kind of 682 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:36,520 Speaker 3: the foundation of his folk character was bear hunting. 683 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,680 Speaker 4: That impressed people in the East, you know, that gave 684 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:45,120 Speaker 4: him a prestige in the East as well as in Tennessee. 685 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:49,360 Speaker 4: He was the bear hunter. Lincoln was the reil splitter 686 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,279 Speaker 4: and honest abe and he was he was Crockett, the 687 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,879 Speaker 4: bear hunter, and it was authentic. He was a great 688 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:55,480 Speaker 4: bear hunter. 689 00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,760 Speaker 3: I want us to listen to a bear hunting story 690 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 3: and David's words. This is a wild adventure from his autobiography, 691 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:10,960 Speaker 3: written in eighteen thirty four. I had seen the track 692 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,440 Speaker 3: of the bear they were after, and I knowed he 693 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,480 Speaker 3: was a screamer. I followed on to about the middle 694 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,920 Speaker 3: of the hurricane, but my dogs pursued him so close 695 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,120 Speaker 3: that they made him climb an old stump about twenty 696 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,320 Speaker 3: feet high. I got in shooting distance of him and fired, 697 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,080 Speaker 3: but I was all over in such a flutter from 698 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,200 Speaker 3: fatigue and running that I couldn't hardly hold steady. 699 00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,880 Speaker 5: But however, I broke his shoulder and he fell. 700 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,680 Speaker 3: I run up and loaded my gun as quick as possible, 701 00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,920 Speaker 3: and shot him again and killed him. But when I 702 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,359 Speaker 3: went to take out my knife to butcher him, I 703 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,000 Speaker 3: found I had lost it. Coming through the hurricane, the 704 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,880 Speaker 3: vines and briars was so thick that I would sometimes 705 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:47,880 Speaker 3: have to get down and crawl like a varmint to 706 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,960 Speaker 3: get through it all. And a vine had, as I supposed, 707 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,160 Speaker 3: caught in the middle of the handle and pulled it out. 708 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,759 Speaker 3: While I was standing and studying what to do. My 709 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,400 Speaker 3: friend came to me he had followed my trail through 710 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,680 Speaker 3: the hurricane and had found my kN eye, which is 711 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,200 Speaker 3: mighty good news to me, as a hunter hates the 712 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,480 Speaker 3: worst in the world to lose a good dog or 713 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,800 Speaker 3: any part of his hunting tools. I now left McDaniel 714 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,360 Speaker 3: to butcher the bear, and I went after our horses 715 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,839 Speaker 3: and brought them as near as the nature of the 716 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,920 Speaker 3: case would allow. I then took our bags and went 717 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,240 Speaker 3: back to where he was, And when we had skinned 718 00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,960 Speaker 3: the bear, we fleeced off the fat and carried it 719 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,920 Speaker 3: to our horses at several loads. We then packed it 720 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,000 Speaker 3: up on our horses and had a very heavy pack 721 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 3: of it on each one. We now started out and 722 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,560 Speaker 3: went until about sunset, when I concluded we'd bust be 723 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,160 Speaker 3: near our camp. So I hollered, and my son answered me, 724 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,520 Speaker 3: and we moved on in the direction to the camp. 725 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,920 Speaker 3: We had gone but a little way when I heard 726 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,120 Speaker 3: my dogs make a warm start again, and I jumped 727 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,360 Speaker 3: down from my horse and gave him to my friend, 728 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,960 Speaker 3: and I told him I would follow them. He went 729 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,160 Speaker 3: onto the camp, and I went ahead after my dogs 730 00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,319 Speaker 3: with all my might for a considerable distance till it. 731 00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:58,799 Speaker 5: Last night came on. 732 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,640 Speaker 3: The woods were very rough and hilly, and all covered 733 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,240 Speaker 3: with cane. I now was compelled to move on more slowly, 734 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,520 Speaker 3: and was frequently fallen over logs and into the cracks 735 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,200 Speaker 3: made by the earthquakes, so that I was very much 736 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,200 Speaker 3: afraid I would break my gun. However, I went on 737 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,280 Speaker 3: about three miles when I came to a good, big creek, 738 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,920 Speaker 3: which I waited. It was very cold, and the creek 739 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,960 Speaker 3: was about knee deep, but I felt no great inconvenience 740 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,680 Speaker 3: from it just then, as I was all over wet 741 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,160 Speaker 3: with sweat from running and felt hot enough. 742 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:30,360 Speaker 5: After I got. 743 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,279 Speaker 3: Over the creek and out of the cane, which was 744 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,360 Speaker 3: very thick on all of our creeks, I listened for 745 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,280 Speaker 3: my dogs. I found they had either treed or brought 746 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,799 Speaker 3: the bear to stop, as they continued barking in the 747 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,720 Speaker 3: same place. I pushed on as near in the direction 748 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:44,600 Speaker 3: to the noise as I could till I found a 749 00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,040 Speaker 3: hill that was too steep for me to climb, and 750 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,960 Speaker 3: so I backed down and went down to the creek 751 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,879 Speaker 3: some distance till I came to a hollow, and then 752 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,279 Speaker 3: took up that till I come to a place where 753 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,760 Speaker 3: I could climb up the hill. It was mighty dark 754 00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,919 Speaker 3: and was difficult to see my way or anything else. 755 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,440 Speaker 3: When I got up to the hill, I found I 756 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,040 Speaker 3: had passed the dogs, and so I turned and went 757 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,359 Speaker 3: to them. I found when I got there they had 758 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,520 Speaker 3: treed the bear in a large forked poplar, and it 759 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,240 Speaker 3: was setting in the fork. I could see the lump, 760 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,880 Speaker 3: but not plain enough to shoot with any certainty, as 761 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,120 Speaker 3: there was no moonlight, so I set into hunting for 762 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,279 Speaker 3: some dry brush to make me a light, but I 763 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,080 Speaker 3: couldn't find none, though I could find the ground was 764 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,360 Speaker 3: torn mighty to pieces by the cracks. 765 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:28,919 Speaker 5: At last, I thought I could shoot. 766 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,919 Speaker 3: By guests and kill him, so I pointed as near 767 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,440 Speaker 3: the lump as I could and fired away. But the 768 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,440 Speaker 3: bear didn't come. He only calmed higher and got out 769 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,799 Speaker 3: on a limb, which helped me see him better. I 770 00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,160 Speaker 3: now loaded up again and fired, but this time he 771 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,359 Speaker 3: didn't move it all. I commenced loading for the third time, 772 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,080 Speaker 3: but the first thing I knowed, the bear was down 773 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,160 Speaker 3: among my dogs and they were fighting all around me. 774 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,040 Speaker 3: I had my big butcher knife in my belt, and 775 00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:57,080 Speaker 3: I had a pair of dressed buckskin breeches on, so 776 00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,680 Speaker 3: I took out my knife and stood determined if he 777 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,279 Speaker 3: should get a hold of me, to defend myself from 778 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,600 Speaker 3: the best way I could. I stood there for some 779 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,759 Speaker 3: time and could now then see a white dog I had, 780 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,000 Speaker 3: but the rest of them and the bear, which were 781 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,040 Speaker 3: dark colored, I couldn't see it all. It was so 782 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:17,160 Speaker 3: miserable dark. They fought all around me, sometimes within three 783 00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:19,200 Speaker 3: feet of me. But at last the bear got down 784 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,359 Speaker 3: in one of the cracks that the earthquakes had made 785 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,919 Speaker 3: in the ground, about four feet deep, and I could 786 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,560 Speaker 3: tell the biting end of him by the hollering of 787 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,080 Speaker 3: my dogs. So I took my gun and pushed the 788 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,640 Speaker 3: muzzle of it about till I thought I had it 789 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,160 Speaker 3: against the main part of his body, and fired, but 790 00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,440 Speaker 3: it happened only to be the fleshy part of his 791 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,240 Speaker 3: fore leg. With this, he jumped out of the crack, 792 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,920 Speaker 3: and the dogs that had another hard fight all around 793 00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,919 Speaker 3: me as before. At last, however, they forced him back 794 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,880 Speaker 3: into the crack again as he was when I'd shot. 795 00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,640 Speaker 3: I had laid my gun down in the dark, and 796 00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:52,680 Speaker 3: now it began to hunt for it. And while I 797 00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,759 Speaker 3: was hunting, I got a hold of a pole, and 798 00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:58,279 Speaker 3: I concluded I would punch him awhile with that. I 799 00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:00,680 Speaker 3: did so, and when I would punch him, the dogs 800 00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,320 Speaker 3: would jump in on him. When he would bite him badly, 801 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,799 Speaker 3: they would jump out again, I concluded, as he would 802 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,560 Speaker 3: take punching so patiently, it might be that he would 803 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,480 Speaker 3: lie still enough for me to get down in the 804 00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:15,200 Speaker 3: crack and feel slowly along until I could find the 805 00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,640 Speaker 3: right place to give him a dig with the butcher. 806 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,560 Speaker 3: So I got down, and my dogs got in before him, 807 00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,200 Speaker 3: and kept his head towards them till I got along. 808 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,600 Speaker 3: Easing up to him and placing my hand on his rump, 809 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,440 Speaker 3: I felt for his shoulder, just behind which I intended 810 00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,080 Speaker 3: to stick him. I made a lunge with my long 811 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,279 Speaker 3: knife and fortunately stuck him right through the heart, at 812 00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,120 Speaker 3: which he just sank down, and I crawled out in 813 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:42,200 Speaker 3: a hurry and a little time my dogs all came 814 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,399 Speaker 3: out too, and seemed satisfied, which was the way they 815 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,279 Speaker 3: always had of telling me that they had finished him. 816 00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,719 Speaker 3: I suffered very much that night with cold, as my leather, 817 00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,640 Speaker 3: breeches and everything else I had was wet and frozen, 818 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:56,799 Speaker 3: but I managed to get my bear out of the 819 00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,080 Speaker 3: crack after several hard tries, and so butchered him and 820 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,040 Speaker 3: laid down to try to sleep. But my fire was 821 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,560 Speaker 3: very bad, and I couldn't find anything that would burn 822 00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:07,880 Speaker 3: well to make it any better. So I concluded that 823 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,799 Speaker 3: I should freeze if I didn't warm myself in some 824 00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,920 Speaker 3: way by exercise. So I got up, hollered awhile, and 825 00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,040 Speaker 3: then I would just jump up and down with all 826 00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,840 Speaker 3: my might and throw myself into all sorts of motions. 827 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,200 Speaker 3: But all this wouldn't do, for my blood was now 828 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,239 Speaker 3: getting cold and the chills coming all over me. 829 00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,400 Speaker 5: I was so tired too that I could hardly walk. 830 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,759 Speaker 3: But I thought I would do my best to save 831 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:34,000 Speaker 3: my life, and then if I died, nobody. 832 00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:34,560 Speaker 5: Would be to blame. 833 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,120 Speaker 3: So I went to a tree about two feet through 834 00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,680 Speaker 3: with not a limb on it for thirty feet and 835 00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,160 Speaker 3: I would climb it to the limbs and then lock 836 00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,120 Speaker 3: my arms together and slide down to the bottom again. 837 00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,720 Speaker 3: This would make the inside of my legs and arms 838 00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:51,120 Speaker 3: feel mighty warm and good. I continued this till daylight 839 00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:53,960 Speaker 3: in the morning, and how often I clumbed that tree 840 00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,319 Speaker 3: and slid down I don't know, but I reckon at 841 00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,040 Speaker 3: least one hundred times. In the morning, I got my 842 00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,680 Speaker 3: bear hung up to be safe, and then set out 843 00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,560 Speaker 3: to hunt for my camp. I found it after a while, 844 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,400 Speaker 3: and McDaniel and my son were very much rejoiced to 845 00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,799 Speaker 3: see me back, for they were about to give me 846 00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,920 Speaker 3: up for lost. We got our breakfast and then secured 847 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,080 Speaker 3: our meat by building a high scaffold and covering it over. 848 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,399 Speaker 3: We had no fur of it spoiling, for the weather 849 00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,640 Speaker 3: was so cold it couldn't. We now started after my 850 00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:25,000 Speaker 3: other bear, which had caused me so much trouble and suffering, 851 00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,000 Speaker 3: and before we got to him, we started after another 852 00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:31,120 Speaker 3: and took him also. We went on to the creek 853 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:33,480 Speaker 3: i'd crossed the night before in camp, and then went 854 00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:36,080 Speaker 3: to where my bear was that i'd killed in the crack. 855 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,320 Speaker 3: We examined the place and McDaniel said he wouldn't have 856 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,200 Speaker 3: gone into it, as I did for all the bears 857 00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,520 Speaker 3: in the woods. We took the meat down in our 858 00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,600 Speaker 3: camp and salted it, and also the last one we'd killed, 859 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:49,880 Speaker 3: intending in the morning to make a hunt in the 860 00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,239 Speaker 3: hurricane again. We prepared for resting that night, and I 861 00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:55,239 Speaker 3: can assure the reader I was in need of it. 862 00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,920 Speaker 3: We had laid down by our fire, and at ten 863 00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,200 Speaker 3: o'clock there came a most terrible earth quake, which shook 864 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:03,640 Speaker 3: the earth so that we were rocked about like we 865 00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,759 Speaker 3: had been in a cradle. We were so very much alarmed, 866 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,839 Speaker 3: for though we were accustomed to feeling earthquakes, we were 867 00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,400 Speaker 3: now right in the region which had been torn to 868 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,239 Speaker 3: pieces by them in eighteen twelve, and we thought it 869 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,640 Speaker 3: might take a notion to swallow us up like the 870 00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,880 Speaker 3: big fish did Jonah. In the morning, we packed up 871 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,520 Speaker 3: and moved to the Hurricane, where we made another camp, 872 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,680 Speaker 3: and turned out that evening and killed a very large bear, 873 00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:30,040 Speaker 3: which made eight we had now killed in this hunt. 874 00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,719 Speaker 3: The next morning we entered the Hurricane again. In a 875 00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,360 Speaker 3: little or no time, my dogs were in full cry. 876 00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,120 Speaker 3: We pursued them and soon came to a thick cane 877 00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,960 Speaker 3: break in which they'd stopped their bear. We got up 878 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,920 Speaker 3: close to him, as the cane was so thick we 879 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:44,680 Speaker 3: couldn't see more than a few feet. 880 00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:45,080 Speaker 9: Here. 881 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,080 Speaker 3: I made my friend hold the cane a little open 882 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,000 Speaker 3: with his gun till I shot the bear, which was 883 00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,120 Speaker 3: a mighty large one. I killed him dead in his tracks. 884 00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,720 Speaker 3: We got him out butchered him, and in a little 885 00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,839 Speaker 3: time started another and killed him, which now made ten 886 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,759 Speaker 3: bears we'd killed, and we knowed we couldn't pack any 887 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:04,719 Speaker 3: more home. We only had five horses along. Therefore we 888 00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,560 Speaker 3: returned to the camp salted our meat to be ready 889 00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,960 Speaker 3: for the start homeward the next morning. The morning came, 890 00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,440 Speaker 3: we packed our horses with meat and had as much 891 00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,560 Speaker 3: as they could possibly carry, and sure enough cut out 892 00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:19,200 Speaker 3: for home. It was about thirty miles and we reached 893 00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,319 Speaker 3: our home the second day. I had now accommodated my 894 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,840 Speaker 3: neighbor with meat enough to do him, and had killed 895 00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,680 Speaker 3: in all up to that time fifty eight bears during 896 00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,279 Speaker 3: the fall and winter. As soon as the time come 897 00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,640 Speaker 3: for them to quit their houses and come out again 898 00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:34,800 Speaker 3: in the spring, I took a notion to hunt a 899 00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,600 Speaker 3: little more, and in about one month I killed forty 900 00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,120 Speaker 3: seven more, which made one hundred and five bears I 901 00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,920 Speaker 3: had killed in less than one year from that time. 902 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:51,920 Speaker 3: That was incredible. Crockett talked about the New Madrid earthquake 903 00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:54,440 Speaker 3: of eighteen twelve and all the cracks in the ground. 904 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,320 Speaker 3: He killed a bear down in one of the cracks, 905 00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,320 Speaker 3: the bear Grease Hall of Famer to Come is believed 906 00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:05,520 Speaker 3: by some to have invoked that earthquake when he prophesied 907 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,520 Speaker 3: that he'd stomp the ground and it would shake down 908 00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:12,600 Speaker 3: every house. That quake was felt from New Orleans to 909 00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:16,239 Speaker 3: Canada and all the way to Maine. It made the 910 00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:20,320 Speaker 3: Mississippi River run backwards, and the quakes lasted for four 911 00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:25,440 Speaker 3: months to Comps would die in Ontario in eighteen thirteen. 912 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,799 Speaker 3: If there's one thing I know from chasing bears and 913 00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,160 Speaker 3: pounding around in the mountains of the yeast, that killing 914 00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:34,920 Speaker 3: one hundred and five bears fully processing them in the 915 00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,520 Speaker 3: back country using primitive gear, packing them out with horses. 916 00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:40,520 Speaker 3: He'd have been better off with mules, we all know. 917 00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,360 Speaker 3: But that was some rough living and you can't fake it. 918 00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:48,680 Speaker 3: Crockett was the real deal. He said in his autobiography 919 00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,960 Speaker 3: that he had seven of the most vicious bear hounds 920 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:52,720 Speaker 3: in the South. 921 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:54,239 Speaker 5: Bear hunting was. 922 00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,600 Speaker 3: So core to Crockett's identity. I felt like we needed 923 00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:01,160 Speaker 3: to establish that up front. And it's so hard to 924 00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,680 Speaker 3: tell a complex story like this, but mister Morgan told 925 00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,560 Speaker 3: us there were four Crocketts that were the building blocks 926 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:11,919 Speaker 3: of his fame. The bear hunter, the soldier, the politician 927 00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:16,279 Speaker 3: and the martyr at the Alamo. On the next episode, 928 00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,839 Speaker 3: we're gonna start into the chronology of Crockett's life from 929 00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,080 Speaker 3: his birth, because all that stuff, all the stuff he did, 930 00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,240 Speaker 3: is what made him who he was in America. Knew 931 00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:31,120 Speaker 3: that story and it's gonna get wild, but it's nothing 932 00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:31,800 Speaker 3: to Crockett. 933 00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:33,680 Speaker 5: And we hadn't even started yet. 934 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:40,840 Speaker 9: Now, how'd you kill that brute with my knife? I 935 00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:42,680 Speaker 9: was figured on grant him to death? But this here, 936 00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:46,919 Speaker 9: stumblefooted majors come along, busted up and concentrate Grinningham to death. 937 00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:50,640 Speaker 9: What founderation is that? Which ame I've been experimenting with. 938 00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:55,360 Speaker 9: You see, there's nothing so absolutely unresistible as an old fashioned, 939 00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,600 Speaker 9: good natured grin like this. I started out on Coon's 940 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:01,480 Speaker 9: I got some good ad one day and old Kon 941 00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:03,440 Speaker 9: throwed up his hands. A minute, he's seen my teeth. 942 00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:05,920 Speaker 9: You got me, Daddy hollered, and he skinned down that 943 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:07,879 Speaker 9: tree and plopped hisself on my side. Before I knowed 944 00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,480 Speaker 9: what was up. I figured the same thing. I ought 945 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,279 Speaker 9: to work on Barns, but I never got a chance 946 00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:15,719 Speaker 9: to find out. Major here come along and busted up 947 00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,120 Speaker 9: my concentrating. I wound up having to rise, so let's 948 00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:19,319 Speaker 9: protect your credit at the table meet. 949 00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,080 Speaker 3: I can't thank you enough for listening to Bear Grease. 950 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,920 Speaker 3: We've got several more Crockett episodes and we're diving in 951 00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:37,000 Speaker 3: deeper than we probably ever had. And hey, Dave Smith 952 00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:39,760 Speaker 3: decoys are now part of the Meat Eater family. 953 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:41,920 Speaker 5: For over twenty three years, they've. 954 00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,719 Speaker 3: Made the most realistic turkey, deer, and goose decoys in 955 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,239 Speaker 3: the world, and I don't expect them to stop now. 956 00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,839 Speaker 3: I look forward to talking with everybody on the Bear 957 00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:51,760 Speaker 3: Grease Render. 958 00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:52,719 Speaker 5: Next week 959 00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:11,600 Speaker 1: Is MHM