Boone and Crockett- the Carolina Connection

There is a Carolina connection to Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett two of America's most famous early frontiersmen. Of course they were mostly made famous by movies and television shows with stars like Fess Parker, John Wayne and Billy Bob Thornton playing either Daniel Boone or Davey Crockett. Fess Parker playing Daniel Boone was probably my favorite portrayal of Boone or Crockett. Fess Parker actually played both Boone and Crockett in various shows or movies.

Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett were not Hollywood characters and were indeed real people. Boone and Crocket's Carolina connection comes from the fact that both of them spend time living in North Carolina.

Daniel Boone even has the town of Boone named after him. Boone North Carolina is a nice mountain town and the home of Appalachian State University. Daniel Boone spent considerable time in the Yadkin Valley and in particular the town of Salisbury North Carolina which I happen to live near.

According to Newrivernotes.com Daniel Boone's fighting of Indians in Kentucky greatly helped the revolutionary war efforts in North Carolina by keeping allies of the British from joining the fighting on their side in the Carolinas. The website has some great information about Daniel Boone's connections to North Carolina.

Davey Crockett is best known as a former Tennessee resident who died at the Alamo in Texas. He was a larger than life figure even in his own time and had been a representative of Tennessee in Washington D.C.

Davey Crockett spent time living in North Carolina as Eastern Tennessee was part of NC at one time. Though Daniel Boone and David Crockett did live in the same time period I don't think they ever met. If they did I couldn't find a reference to it. But Boone and Crockett did share the Carolina connection and probably hunted in some of the same places.

As a history buff I find if fascinating that Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett lived in the same state that I do. I love the fact that I have walked over some of the same ground as Daniel Boone in particular who spent much more time in North Carolina than Crockett did.

Sources

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3844.html

http://www.danielboonehomestead.org/history.htm