戴维·克罗基特是一位神话般的美国民间英雄，由于迪斯尼的电视迷你剧和主要电影，他在50年代和60年代得到了极大的普及。但克罗基特在历史上是一个非常真实的人，他有很多智慧可以分享。

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大卫“戴维”克罗基特出生于1786年（美国宪法之前），生活在逃亡、当兵、拓荒者的状态，1821年起在田纳西州立法机关任职，1825年甚至当选国会议员。他在世的时候的确很出名，但戏剧、歌曲和长篇大论把他变成了戴着库恩斯金帽子的公认的民间英雄，我们今天都知道他。

在**和坚持他的立场

在国会期间，克罗基特反对安德鲁·杰克逊总统的大部分政策，包括《印第安人迁移法案》，该法案试图将所有印第安人迁移到密西西比河以西。但克罗基特的强烈反对和拒绝任何政党的要求，最终导致了政治生涯的麻烦。对于那些充当政治傀儡的人，他有很多话要说：

“I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men...”

In a letter following his defeat in the 1830 electi***, as quoted in David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994)

“I am at liberty to vote as my c***cience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me, or the driver at my heels, with his whip in hand, commanding me to ge-wo-haw, just at his pleasure. Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!”

Letter from 28 January, 1834, reported in A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett

“I am no man’s man. I bark at no man’s bid. I will never come and go, and fetch and carry, at the whistle of the great man in the white house, no matter who he is.”

An Account of Col. Crockett’s Tour to the North and Down East (1835)

1835年，当克罗基特再次被击败时，他放弃了政治，为德克萨斯州（当时的墨西哥特哈斯州）让路。不过，他至少可以说，他总是坚持自己认为是对的。

论边疆生存

戴维·克罗克特被称为“野生边境之王”是有原因的，其中一个原因是1955年汤姆·W·克劳克特的歌曲《戴维·克罗克特的歌谣》。布莱克本，但另一个原因是因为他是一个了不起的猎人。当他不打仗或竞选公职时，狩猎熊是他谋生的方式。他声称在1825-1826年严冬的七个月内杀死了105头熊。哇哦。那么，他是不是在树林里迷路了：

“For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don’t think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.”

或者在寒冷中冻死他的**：

“I suffered very much that night with cold, as my leather breeches, and every thing else I had on, was wet and frozen. But I managed to get my bear out of this crack after several hard trials, and so I butchered him, and laid down to try to sleep. But my fire was very bad, and I couldn’t find any thing that would burn well to make it any better; and I concluded I should freeze, if I didn’t warm myself in some way by exercise. So I got up, and hollered a while, and then I would just jump up and down with all my might, and throw myself into all sorts of moti***. But all this wouldn’t do; for my blood was now getting cold, and the chills coming all over me. I was so tired, too, that I could hardly walk; but I thought I would do the best I could to save my life, and then, if I died, nobody would be to blame. So I went to a tree about two feet through, and not a limb on it for thirty feet, and I would climb up it to the limbs, and then lock my arms together around it, and slide down to the bottom again. This would make the insides of my legs and arms feel mighty warm and good. I continued this till daylight in the morning, and how often I clomb up my tree and slid down I don’t know, but I reckon at least a hundred times.”

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee (1834)

啊，摩擦的升温能力。野生边境的国王总是知道该怎么办。

论谦虚

戴维·克罗基特在世的时候也是个大人物，但他从不让任何人注意到他的头脑。事实上，他并没有真正理解这场大惊小怪是怎么回事。

“I know, that obscure as I am, my name is making a c***iderable deal of fuss in the world. I can’t tell why it is, nor in what it is to end. Go where I will, everybody seems anxious to get a peep at me … There must therefore be something in me, or about me, that attracts attention, which is even mysterious to myself.”

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)

他是19世纪早期查克·诺里斯笑话的一个版本。尽管如此，他还是呆在地上。

关于帮助别人

人们如此喜欢戴维·克罗基特的原因之一是他总是乐于助人。他们是否是冬天需要食物的邻居：

“I worked on with my hands till the bears got fat, and then I turned out to hunting, to lay in a supply of meat. I soon killed and salted down as many as were necessary for my family; but about this time one of my old neighbours, who had settled down on the lake about twenty-five miles from me, came to my house and told me he wanted me to go down and kill some bears about in his parts. He said they were extremely fat, and very plenty. I know’d that when they were fat, they were easily taken, for a fat bear can’t run fast or long. But I asked a bear no favours, no way, further than civility, for I now had eight large dogs, and as fierce as painters; so that a bear stood no chance at all to get away from them. So I went home with him, and then went on down towards the Mississippi, and commenced hunting. We were out two weeks, and in that time killed fifteen bears. Having now supplied my friend with plenty of meat, I engaged occasionally again with my hands in our boat building and getting staves.”

A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF DAVID CROCKETT OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE (1834)

或者街上一个可怜的人：

“Whenever I had anything, and saw a fellow-being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day. But it is my way, and while it has often left me an empty purse, yet it has never left my heart empty of c***olati*** which money couldn’t buy, the c***olation of having sometimes fed the hungry and covered the naked.”

Davy Crockett (1918)

克罗基特只是想做正确的事，即使这意味着他会有更少的钱。

尝试新事物

克罗基特最终尝试了诗歌，因为，为什么不呢？他很伤心，想把那些感情发泄出来。

“Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.”

Col. Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas (1836)

以下是他的一首诗：

我种的玉米，我清理的田地，

我所养的羊群和我所养的小屋；

我胸中的妻子——向你们大家告别！

在陌生人的土地上，我起或落。

对于一个在离家出走开始冒险生活之前，总共上学了四天的人来说，这并不坏。如果你想尝试新的东西，不要让事情妨碍你。像戴维一样，就去吧！

知道什么时候认输

在1835年第四次竞选国会议员，第二次竞选失败后，克罗基特非常沮丧。所以，他决定最好还是算了，搬到更绿的牧场去。

“I also told them of the manner in which I had been knocked down and dragged out, and that I didn’t c***ider it a fair fight any how they could fix it. I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong I tell you, and I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas.”

Col. Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas (1836)

他肯定是砰的一声出去了。对克罗基特来说不幸的是，他只在得克萨斯呆了三个月，就在1836年阿拉莫战役中被杀。

论生活

克罗基特的功绩是多方面的，很难区分事实和夸张的故事，但他似乎生活得很好。这在一定程度上要归功于他的首要原则：

“I leave this rule for others when I’m dead. Be always sure you’re right — THEN GO AHEAD!”

David Crockett: His Life and Adventures (1874)

简单但有效，不是吗？最后，他知道他想让别人知道他的生活方式，而不是他的死亡方式：

“I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.”

David Crockett: His Life and Adventures, 1875

用这种方式来看待自己的生活并不坏。你会只是讣告，在某人心中的约会吗？或者你会留下你在世时做过的事？