Frank Mayo as Davy Crockett; or, Be Sure You're Right, Then Go Ahead, The Bar's Gone" Lithograph Poster, 19th century, Cosack & Co., Buffalo, N.Y., date remnant strip on bottom, strong colors, good condition, ht. 19, wd. 24 1/4 Murdoch's play Davy Crockett presented the able soldier, scout, and rifleman as a common-sense super-hero. The plot involves Crockett's love for a girl above his station, his protection of her from a pack of wolves in a blizzard, and his rescue of her during her wedding from villains. In one especially melodramatic scene, Crockett saves settlers by using his arm as a door latch while reciting Sir Walter Scott's "Lochinvar." In the 1850s and 1860s, Boston-born Frank Mayo acted in San Francisco under the managements of Laura Keene and Julius Brutus Booth, Jr. As a member of Thomas Maguire's companies, he appeared at the opening of Maguire's Virginia City, Nevada, opera house. Mayo returned to the East Coast to play Badger in Dion Boucicault's The Streets of New York to great success. Davy Crockett was the focus of his repertory from 1872 to 1894 Frank Mayo with close friend with Mark Twain whom he met while working with Joseph T. Goodman the editor of the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Nevada early in Mark Twain's career. (See Lot 50 for more information)"