Who was the real Davy Crockett?
He was a frontiersman, a politician, and a soldier — but also one of America’s first celebrity legends. Most people know Davy Crockett, the coonskin-cap hero from Disney’s “King of the Wild Frontier.” But the real David Crockett? He was something far more complex — a self-taught businessman, congressman, and moral voice who stood against President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act and paid the price for it.
In this extended Unscaled Conversation, historian and author Allen J. Wiener joins host Jeremy Long to separate the man from the myth, exploring how Crockett’s real life — from his time in Congress to his final stand at the Alamo — became one of America’s greatest legends.