@farmerman,
This has long been an ugly obsession with American "sportsmen," a term many of them hardly deserve. David Crockett and his cronies would go out into the woods and slaughter dozens of animals, and sometimes over a period of months, hundreds of animals. There was no possible way they could have harvested all the meat, and they weren't even involved in retrieving furs or "trophies." It was the sheer scale of the kill, the number of animals killed, which was their object. This doesn't make Crockett some kind of exceptional creep though--he was a product of his times, and neither better nor worse than any of the other backwoods boys around him.