Fess Parker struck ratings gold again in a coonskin cap, this time as “Daniel Boone.” Like his previous hero, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone was one of American’s greatest real life folk heroes.

Davy Crockett, popular "King of the Wild Frontier ... needed "someone in a coonskin cap who was a man of the people." So the Whigs elected Davy to Congress, where they made sure that he supported ...

Kids — well, boys anyway — ran around with their coonskin ... figures. Crockett was one of their first and most popular. The Davy Crockett miniseries starring Fess Parker became an overnight ...

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fess Elisha Parker, Jr. (August 16, 1924 – March 18, 2010) was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of Davy Crockett in ...

Davy Crockett, the celebrated hero ... He was more than a simple woodsman in coonskin cap. He enjoyed political success when elected on the United States' Congress and where he championed the ...

the 2014 Rodney’s Vineyard Crockett, a label which represents the best of each vintage from the estate. There was live music from The Heart Band (who played later that weekend in the Fess Parker Funk ...

We examine some of the biggest cultural landmark movies for the generation that saw the world change from the 1950s to today.

It all began with the Davy Crockett coonskin hat craze and a bunch of Bohemians yearning to swathe themselves in decades-old fur These three artists come from a long tradition of creating wearable ...