Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, ...

Fess Parker, 85, who launched a nationwide craze of coonskin caps and toy rifles in the mid-1950s with his TV portrayal of rugged frontiersman Davy Crockett, and later starred as Daniel Boone in ...

When my boy Coleman was four, he asked for — and got — a Davy Crockett jacket and a coonskin cap for Christmas. Back when Disney celebrated bad asses instead of fruitcakes, he had watched a gazillion ...

Summer’s heat waves proved too much for many a coonskin cap. but Davy Crockett has summer’s sound waves well in hand. The Ballad of Davy Crockett with a flash sale of some 7,000,000 records seems on ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - You may see him running on the field in a coonskin cap with a rifle on a University of Tennessee game day, but who is the man who inspired the mascot symbolizing the ...

Chances are, if you grew up in the mid-1950s, you either owned an official Davy Crockett coonskin cap or had the lyrics of the television show’s theme song committed to memory: “Born on a mountaintop ...

I’ve heard of a coonskin cap, but this is ridiculous: A whale-watcher recently spotted an orca donning a dead salmon as a hat. What’s even more remarkable? The fashion statement appears to be the ...

As Keisean Henderson left for a trip to Florida, his mother put a surprise in his duffle bag. “I need you to do something so you can stand out,” Erica Henderson told her son of the Davy Crockett-style ...