戴維·克羅基特是一位神話般的美國民間英雄，由於迪斯尼的電視迷你劇和主要電影，他在50年代和60年代得到了極大的普及。但克羅基特在歷史上是一個非常真實的人，他有很多智慧可以分享。

歡迎來到復古周，在那裡我們將點燃通量電容器，為您帶來從砂鍋**到放射性沉降物掩蔽建築到讓孩子們放鬆和玩垃圾的樂趣的所有知識。

大衛“戴維”克羅基特出生於1786年（美國憲法之前），生活在逃亡、當兵、拓荒者的狀態，1821年起在田納西州立法機關任職，1825年甚至當選國會議員。他在世的時候的確很出名，但戲劇、歌曲和長篇大論把他變成了戴著庫恩斯金帽子的公認的民間英雄，我們今天都知道他。

在**和堅持他的立場

在國會期間，克羅基特反對安德魯·傑克遜總統的大部分政策，包括《印第安人遷移法案》，該法案試圖將所有印第安人遷移到密西西比河以西。但克羅基特的強烈反對和拒絕任何政黨的要求，最終導致了政治生涯的麻煩。對於那些充當政治傀儡的人，他有很多話要說：

“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，當克羅基特再次被擊敗時，他放棄了政治，為德克薩斯州（當時的墨西哥特哈斯州）讓路。不過，他至少可以說，他總是堅持自己認為是對的。

論邊疆生存

戴維·克羅克特被稱為“野生邊境之王”是有原因的，其中一個原因是1955年湯姆·W·克勞克特的歌曲《戴維·克羅克特的歌謠》。布萊克本，但另一個原因是因為他是一個了不起的獵人。當他不打仗或競選公職時，狩獵熊是他謀生的方式。他聲稱在1825-1826年嚴冬的七個月內殺死了105頭熊。哇哦。那麼，他是不是在樹林裡迷路了：

“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.”

或者在寒冷中凍死他的**：

“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，摩擦的升溫能力。野生邊境的國王總是知道該怎麼辦。

論謙虛

戴維·克羅基特在世的時候也是個大人物，但他從不讓任何人註意到他的頭腦。事實上，他並沒有真正理解這場大驚小怪是怎麼回事。

“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世紀早期查克·諾裡斯笑話的一個版本。儘管如此，他還是獃在地上。

關於幫助別人

人們如此喜歡戴維·克羅基特的原因之一是他總是樂於助人。他們是否是冬天需要食物的鄰居：

“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)

或者街上一個可憐的人：

“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)

克羅基特只是想做正確的事，即使這意味著他會有更少的錢。

嘗試新事物

克羅基特最終嘗試了詩歌，因為，為什麼不呢？他很傷心，想把那些感情發洩出來。

“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)

以下是他的一首詩：

我種的玉米，我清理的田地，

我所養的羊群和我所養的小屋；

我胸中的妻子——向你們大家告別！

在陌生人的土地上，我起或落。

對於一個在離家出走開始冒險生活之前，總共上學了四天的人來說，這並不壞。如果你想嘗試新的東西，不要讓事情妨礙你。像戴維一樣，就去吧！

知道什麼時候認輸

在1835年第四次競選國會議員，第二次競選失敗後，克羅基特非常沮喪。所以，他決定最好還是算了，搬到更綠的牧場去。

“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)

他肯定是砰的一聲出去了。對克羅基特來說不幸的是，他只在得克薩斯獃了三個月，就在1836年阿拉莫戰役中被殺。

論生活

克羅基特的功績是多方面的，很難區分事實和誇張的故事，但他似乎生活得很好。這在一定程度上要歸功於他的首要原則：

“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)

簡單但有效，不是嗎？最後，他知道他想讓別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

用這種方式來看待自己的生活並不壞。你會只是訃告，在某人心中的約會嗎？或者你會留下你在世時做過的事？