Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for July 04, 2023

Charlie Brown is going to send a letter to the editor.

“Print the legend” as the editor said in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Did Daniel Boone write the unflattering article on Davy Crockett?

That article is right. Crockett abandoned his family, was a terrible Congressman, and a drunkard.

now Davy is a Disney legend and Netflix will soon set the record straight with their hysterical (yes I spelled that right) documentary

Slow news day, guys?

Well, he DID go into politics, after all!

Skipped Sunday strip:

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1955/08/07

Don’t confuse men with either angels or devils.

And regarding the Sunday strip from August 7, 1955, I don’t see a month/day indication on it. The date is usually in the last panel next to his signature, “Schultz.”

Must have been researched by Crockett’s political enemies…

Character Assassins!

Who else killed a b’ar when he was only three?

He was also a US Congressman from Tennessee that gave up his life at the Alamo. All of us are somewhere between being a sinner and a saint. Slandering a man though, close to 200 years after his death, just to sell a few newspapers is appalling……

why was the battle of the Alamo fought? Mexico had freed the slaves…and history channel had episode that said Davy was last man standing, but gave Santa Ana a Masonic sign, and was allowed to walk free (and historically speaking, both were known Masons)…they had a deed signed by him in 1840

Complex man.Serving as a congressman, he opposed the Indian Removal Bill (& the subsequent “Trail of Tears”), to his everlasting credit.It is highly unlikely that al. la. Disney he pinned a copy of the bill to the Speaker’s podium. It is pretty certain that he did not get a standing ovation from the House floor (would that it were so.)

A man of his times.

Is Davy Crockett a real figure or just some American folk tale?