Davy Crockett (outlaw)

Davy Crockett
Born	David Crockett c.1853 Tennessee, United States
Died	September 30, 1876 Cimarron, New Mexico Territory
Nationality	American
Occupation	Cowboy

Davy Crockett (c.1853 - September 30, 1876) was an American outlaw and a relative of the famed frontiersman Davy Crockett.

Davy Crockett was born to Andrew Jackson Crockett and Mary Danley in Tennessee, but the family moved to central Texas, where Andrew operated a toll bridge across the Brazos River, when Davy was still a boy. According to differing accounts, Crockett was either the grandson of the better-known Crockett or was his grandnephew.

When he was grown, Crockett went to New Mexico Territory with a friend named Peter Burleson and established a ranch near Cimarron, which at the time was a small, but wild, cowtown. At first, Crockett maintained a good relationship with the people of Cimarron, but his quarrelsome partner, Agustus "Gus" Heffron, led him astray. Eventually, Crockett and Heffron became the leading bullies in town.

Local folklore says that Crockett was a member of a lynch mob headed by Clay Allison that killed the Elizabethtown serial killer, Charles Kennedy, in 1870. However, Crockett's presence during the lynching remains debatable.

Crockett's brief stint as an outlaw began in 1876, after he murdered three Buffalo Soldiers from the United States Army's 9th Cavalry inside the bar of the St. James Hotel. There are two differing accounts of the hotel shooting and Crockett's demise; the first, which is substantiated by contemporary newspapers, is the generally accepted version. The second comes from the Crockett family history and is remarkably different.

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