Davey Crockett, the cat

Garland,

That reminds me of when I was 10 years old, I had one and it was the fashion for kids, to have a Davy Crockett hat, with the Raccoon tail at the back, well I think it was artificial Raccoon tail.

I never had the hat, but I did have a real leather fringed coat. Mine had a zipper and I remember telling Mom, when we bought it, "I don't think they had zippers in Davey Crockett's day."
I also had a flintlock cap pistol and the complete set of Davey Crockett bubble gum trading cards.

Who was Mike Fink? For some reason I think of him with Davey Crockett.



  

riverboat pirate
was in extra episodes AFTER the Alamo finale (Ep 3)



Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates

Episode 6 · Dec. 14, 1955

Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race

Episode 5 · Nov. 16, 1955

I recall being at the Clinton airforce base in  Ontario the summer that girl was raped and killed. My best friends had lived next door to me in Montreal but moved to Ontario when his dad was stationed there.
We sat in a park and argued for hours about Gen Santa-Anna and Zorro  No one spoke about Lynne Harper's death  or Steven Truscott, the wrong boy being charged and convicted for it. Disney protected us from the trauma.

,Derick ,RobertW ,Jim ,seagullplayer ,

My Davey came about his name in this manner. I actually wanted 2 cats at the time. I wanted a male and a female- I would have named one Freedom, the other Liberty. I told my youngest son about my desire- so, he and his at the time girl friend, gifted me with him for my birthday in 2010, he was 8 weeks old at the time- I had recently read, "Not Your's to Give", prefaced with this:



Introductory note by Peter Kershaw:

Davy Crockett served four terms in the U.S. Congress from 1827-1835. In 1835 he joined the Whig Party and ran a failed attempt for the Presidency. Immediately thereafter he departed his native Tennessee for Texas to secure the independence of the "Texicans." He lost his life at the battle of the Alamo and forever secured his legendary status in history as "king of the wild frontier." The following story was recounted to Edward Elis by an unnamed Congressman who had served with Colonel Crockett in the U.S. House of Representatives.

I had read the book, "American Legend", The Real Life Adventures of David Crockett, by Buddy Levy- and thought it would be a grand idea to name my cat after my political hero- not to bring politics into this conversation- it is merely fortunate for me that he went to Texas- it had nothing to do with that when choosing my Davey's name. He was as fine a man to ever set foot in DC and IMO, the last congress critter,maybe the only one, with honor to ever serve as a Public Servant and I'm reminded of that sentiment, every time I say his name



My Davey Crockett, was a rescue from the County Animal Shelter, his name there, on his adoption papers, was Wilbur how embarrassin- - my son said he was the only one in the bunch they had that purred when he picked him up- I remember, early one morning, when he was still a baby, he jumped on my bed and started purrin so loud I figured the neighbors could hear him - his purrin isn't loud anymore

He is my buddy and we have an understanding; I don't mess with him, unless he wants me to, and he don't mess with me, unless he wants to

LOVE IT!

seagullplayer,  Great scott!  Your kids were being attacked by rats!!!?

I hope you guys made it out of there ok!