LOS ANGELES - Actor Fess Parker, who became every baby boomer's idol in the 1950s and launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.

LOS OLIVOS, Calif. -- Heavy hangs the coonskin cap. It's been almost 50 years since Fess Parker donned the fuzzy headgear that launched the first blockbuster cultural phenomenon of the baby boom ...

If you are my age, you should now be singing: Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. You also should know that “bar” is how they said “bear” back in the wild frontier. I hummed that ditty to ...

SANTA YNEZ, Calif. — "Davy Crockett" and "Daniel Boone" star-turned-developer and vintner Fess Parker has died. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash says Parker died Thursday morning of natural ...