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Most people know Davy Crockett as the frontiersman who wore a dumb raccoon hat, but don’t know much else about him. Yet there was so much more to the “King of the Wild Frontier” than just that.

These facts about Davy Crockett should shed some light on an American legend.

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He wore his raccoon-skin cap as a warning to other raccoons not to climb on his head while he was sleeping.

Being the rugged type, Crockett loved to camp outside.

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He also loved to explore the wilderness and, as anyone who also appreciates the great outdoors will tell you, when you explore outside, you often get berries stuck in your hair as you crawl through bushes. Combine this with camping, and you’re going to wake up with some raccoons scavenging for a meal from your head.

When his friends saw Crockett with a raccoon in his hair for the first time, they laughed and said, “Look, look!

This raccoon has bested Davy Crockett!” Crockett killed the raccoon