“ ‘YOU could I keep on all night,’ my grandmother said, ‘with what everyone told about Davy Crockett, not counting even what he told about himself.’ “ The insomniac lady here quoted is the grandmother ...

American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo.

Davy Crockett is fondly remembered as the king of the wild frontier, a principled politician, and the last defender of the Alamo. But the truth about this frontiersman is a lot more complicated than ...

Parker died Thursday morning of natural causes at his Santa Ynez home near the Fess Parker Winery, according to a family spokesperson. His death comes on the 84th birthday of his wife of 50 years, ...

President Andrew Jackson took offense at something U.S. Rep. David Crockett of Tennessee had said and worked to defeat him in the 1835 congressional campaign. In response, Crockett told a Tennessee ...

Filmmaker David Zucker, whose credits include wacky comedies such as “Airplane! ,” the “Naked Gun” franchise and a couple of “Scary Movie” sequels, has donated his collection of 28 items to the Alamo, ...