In the 1954-55 live-action Walt Disney TV adventure series "Davy Crockett", it starred Fess Parker as Davy Crockett. He was a tall man who was viewed as handsome and was a 19th-century American hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly and often referred to in popular USA society by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He always stood firm for truth and justice.

Regarding the real Davy Crockett, he was a legend in his own time. He was a true pioneer of the American West. He was a U.S. congressman who also established the political book tour. Finally, he became the most heralded person to die in the 1836 infamous 'Battle of the Alamo' in the USA in the state of Texas.

For millions of Americans and others in the world, he will always be remembered as the frontiersman who had a raccoon-skin cap on his head. He was turned into an American icon by Walt Disney when his persona was presented on Disney's 1950s TV show "Disneyland".

Today, in a most recent book by author Bob Thompson, it looks at the mythology of Davy Crockett, his origins in the backwoods of Tennessee, his political life in Washington DC, and his immortalization in the "stickiest song in the history of the movies", 'The Ballad of Davy Crockett'.

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