The Crockett Craze
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In 1955, the frontiersman Davy Crockett became the most famous man in America, more than a century after his death at the Alamo. I dive into a cultural phenomenon nobody saw coming. Not the kids in coonskin caps who started the craze, not the parents whose money fueled it, and least of all Walt Disney, the legendary studio head who created it totally by accident.
August 31, 2023.