Glad they cut this out
In the scene wherein Davy Crockett and his pal George Russell go alone into the swamp, hunting Redstick and his Creek warriors, there's a moment when they happen upon a nest of baby alligators just barely emerged from their eggs. Davy says, "Mighty cute, ain't they?" and George says, "They won't be so cute when they grow up." Originally Davy was to reply, "Well, that ain't goin' to happen," and start clubbing the baby 'gators to death with the butt of his rifle. Russell was to chuckle and say, "Whoooo-dogies! They sure ain't so cute now!"
It's well known that Walt Dinsey had a dark side, and that's well illustrated by his inserting this macabre moment into Tom Blackburn's screenplay. But what would the point have been? A comment on the savagery of life on the frontier? Would that have been worth undercutting Crockett's likeability? I think not.
Disney also wanted to insert the scene from Crockett's autobiography (and related by Billy Bob Thrornton in 2004's THE ALAMO) in which Crockett and some of the other Tennessee Volunteers ate potatoes cooked in grease that fried off the roasting bodies of some Creeks the volunteers had trapped in a burning cabin. "Whoooo-dogies," Russell would say after his third helping. "I never knew Injun cooking was so tasty!" Now THAT I'd have liked to have seen.