Talk:Davy Crockett

Congress

I assume people can't edit this because its about a well known historical person. More information about his Congressional service would be nice. I looked him up in Dr. Keith Poole's common-space NOMINATE scores where he's listed initially as a Jacksonian and later as an anti-Jacksonian, and scores at 1st Dimension (economic) 0.064, making him moderate-conservative economically. As well as .784 in the second dimension, which means he was pretty strongly aligned with the South regionally, which could represent pro-bimetallism or pro-slavery views.

In a modern-context, the 2nd dimension has largely broken down, so we typically only look at the 1st dimension for current members, but in Crockett's era, the 2nd dimension was a very important voting alignment. My guess is that Crockett's shift from Jacksonian to anti-Jacksonian reflects his opposition to the Indian Removal Act and Jackson's genocidal policies towards Native Americans.

Links to consider. http://voteview.com/rank_orders_all_congresses.htm http://voteview.com/HOUSE_SORT20.HTM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOMINATE_%28scaling_method%29

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.126.140.23 (talk • contribs) 25 July 2015

Semi-protected edit request on 15 March 2020

The following needs to be changed:

In early 1836, he took part in the Texas Revolution and was "likely" executed at the Battle of the Alamo after being captured by (and possibly surrendering to) the Mexican Army.

It needs to be change too:

In early 1836, he took part in the Texas Revolution and fought to his death at the Battle of the Alamo never surrendering to the Mexican Army. Americanjustice247 (talk) 06:35, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:30, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Somewhat confused by the "likely" quotation marks. That is not a valid use, and they should be removed. 192.252.229.69 (talk) 03:26, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

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Pop Culture Edit

Crockett was a secret character in the video game Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII — Preceding unsigned comment added by XGhost4000x (talk • contribs) 20:40, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 January 2021

This article, an excerpt taken from Wild West magazine, suggests that the Pena diary is both A) much more controversial than the wiki article suggests, and B) that Crockett's death is much more controversial than the article suggests, with the preponderance of evidence actually suggesting otherwise (as far as eyewitness accounts, go). The article is from 2015, well after the 2001 date of the article supporting Pena (which only supported the age of the materials and did not authenticate the handwriting...and which made it no different from the many other accounts given around that time, even if not a fake).

https://www.historynet.com/davys-death-at-the-alamo-is-now-a-case-closed-or-not.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.184.38.211 (talk) 13:41, 30 January 2021 (UTC)