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Mike Fink's Great Shot, a sketch by Thomas Bangs Thorpe, 1854 [4] Mike Fink was born at Fort Pitt in present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and served as an Indian scout in his teenage years. Even as a teenager, he was an unbeatable marksman, and he earned the name "Bangall" among militiamen at Fort Pitt. When the Indian wars of the region ended ...
York attracted considerable attention in the mid 1950s with his television portrayal of Mike Fink, the flamboyant keelboat operator in two episodes of Disney's hugely popular Davy Crockett miniseries in the episodes "Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race" and "Davy Crockett and the River Pirates." York was cast opposite Fess Parker in the role.
These episodes were edited together as the theatrical film Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956). Crockett faces off against Mike Fink, another early American legend. In "Davy Crockett and the River Pirates", the men pick up a traveling minstrel (Walter Catlett), who unknown to them is in
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates is a 1956 American Western film produced by Walt Disney Productions.A prequel to Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier, it was thought of as a means to salvage revenue from the blunder of Disney killing off the Davy Crockett character too soon within the three program arc ending in the Alamo massacre, greatly diminishing the value that could've been ...
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The Mike Fink Keel Boats were based on two episodes of the Davy Crockett miniseries which aired on the Disneyland TV show in 1955—"Davy Crockett's Keel Boat Race" (November 16) and "Davy Crockett and the River Pirates" (December 14). [1] The ride was named after Mike Fink, the "King of the River" who lost the keel boat race. [2]
Davy Crockett may conjure images of huntin', fishin', and campin', but he was actually a national craze born from same marketing machine that pumped up crowds for the opening of Disneyland. In a ...
Just before John Carter was to stand trial for his fiancée Katelyn Markham’s 2011 death, he pleaded guilty to the lesser crime of involuntary manslaughter.