Fess Parker, star of numerous Disney movies (Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier)—and TV’s Daniel Boone—has died at age 85. I’m a generation too young to have many firsthand memories of him (for ...

When I hear the names Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, I think of the late Fess Parker, who portrayed the legendary frontiersmen in movies and TV series in the 1950s and 1960s.

When I hear the names Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, I think of the late Fess Parker, who portrayed the legendary frontiersmen in movies and TV series in the 1950s and 1960s. While on vacation in ...