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  • "The Ballad of Davy Crockett," from the 1954 TV series starring Fess Parker, was a much recorded hit song, though Crockett was not "born on a mountaintop in Tennessee" and had not "kilt him a b'ar when he was only three."

    An Inexplicable Gift for Fame Henry Allen 2011

  • He may not have 'kilt him a b'ar when he was only three,' but we still remember his name.

    An Inexplicable Gift for Fame Henry Allen 2011

  • Now, just because I heard a THWAANNNGGGG doesn't mean there's a b'ar out thar.

    May 2005 Pat 2005

  • Now, just because I heard a THWAANNNGGGG doesn't mean there's a b'ar out thar.

    There's b'ars in them thar hills! Pat 2005

  • He's got so many interesting stories about what he's done in the last two and a half decades (he killed him a b'ar with how own two hands jes 'like Davy Crockett!) and every story I had to tell he had already read on this website so I was forced to start making up stories about being abducted by aliens and having a threesome with Jessica Simpson and Carol Channing.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2005

  • Now, just because I heard a THWAANNNGGGG doesn't mean there's a b'ar out thar.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Pat 2005

  • "Yes, Logan kinda got his fingers bruised in his own b'ar trap," said

    David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney

  • "Stretchin 'an' strainin 'to git away from that ol' she b'ar was what done it."

    Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

  • And that ol 'b'ar pelt was a coverin' on her bed till she was married, I reckon.

    Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

  • Right up that canyon about two mile is whar Welborn found the b'ar cubs.

    David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney

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