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August 17, 1786
The legendary frontiersman and congressman Davy Crockett was born in Greene County, Tennessee. He reportedly stated during a visit in Arkansas, “If I could rest anywhere it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grow nowhere else on the face of the universal earth but just around the backbone of North America.”