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18 Mar 2010
Fess Parker Dies 
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Fess Parker, whose television portrayal of the American frontiersman Davy Crockett catapulted him to stardom in the mid-1950s and inspired millions of children to wear coonskin caps in one of America’s greatest merchandising fads, died on Thursday at his home in the Santa Ynez Valley in California, where he ran a successful winery. He was 85.
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'Fess Parker, Who as Davy Crockett Set Off Coonskin Cap Craze, Dies at 85'; Richard Severo, The New York Times, March 19, 2010, www.nytimes.com.
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