Fess Parker, who played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone on TV, dies at 85

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Fess Parker, whose star-making portrayal of frontiersman Davy Crockett on television in the mid-1950s made him a hero to millions of young baby boomers and spurred a nationwide run on coonskin caps before he went on to become a hotel developer and noted Santa Ynez winery owner, has died. He was 85. Read the obituary here: