Davy Crockett was a larger-than-life frontiersman, folk hero, U.S. congressman from Tennessee and a doomed Alamo defender who became an American icon in a 1950s television show and two films about the ...

For many, it’s an image of Davy Crockett as enduring as John Wayne’s long-rifle-swinging portrayal of the coonskin-capped Alamo hero at the end. Crockett could play a mean fiddle. The myth goes like ...

SAN ANTONIO TX (KLTV) - Later this month and in early March, the Alamo will be hosting Commemoration, 13 days of special events and programming that is designed to honor the defenders that gave their ...

Downtown crowds were greeted Saturday by fiddle songs, including some that were played by Davy Crockett during the battle of the Alamo. Cannon blasts commemorating the famed fight, boomed throughout ...