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Interesting Things with JC #1747: "Davy Crockett Before the Legend" – Davy Crockett was becoming a legend while he was still alive. He claimed 105 bears in less than a year, fought Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, and watched stories turn him into a frontier character before the Alamo made that character permanent.
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