Posted on 12/29/2015 4:22:43 AM PST by Davy Buck
While watching this latest production, I couldn't help but chuckle about some of the misconceptions many Americans have about Boone due, perhaps, to that old TV series. Brown explodes some of those misconceptions in this project: Boone was not the first white man to explore or settle Kentucky (then part of Virginia). He did not care for coonskin caps and never wore one. He was court-martialed, refused an attorney, defended himself, was acquitted and then promoted. He never used tobacco and though he did not totally abstain from alcohol, he was never known to abuse its use. He was red-headed and fair-skinned. He had a deep and abiding faith in God. His reading and writing skills were largely self-taught. And he was, as Brown notes, "one of America's most authentic and remarkable men."
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See!!! The re-ed camp is working!!!!!!
If you want to read about the true frontiersman then go read about Simon Kenton.
The history here in NC is that they were shunned by the Quakers after two Boone children married “worldlings” outside the church.
He was also a Freemason. As was Davey Crockett, who opened the Appalachian trail into the Ohio Valley. No account of how many of his lodge brothers helped.
Nathan’s homestead here in SW MO is just down the road a bit from us. A branch of my family came out here at the same time (I never knew this when we moved here). What was a small town down by Springfield is still on some maps with the family name. History is neat.
Actually, yes, that is part of the story. Marrying Englishers COULD be be part of dishonest, crotchedy and other allegations, but neither myself or the historian that introduced this to me can interpret meaning from back then. My only thoughts about it is “Would a Quaker be allowed to kill an Indian?” I don’t know.
” I do so with a sense that someday they will be banished, destroyed and forbidden. Much the same way certain books of the Nazi and Commie eras were banned.”
You don’t have to look that far- all you need do is look how eager the PC elites of both parties are to banish and vilify all memory of the Confederacy.
I find this vilifying quite disgusting. The Confederacy is history, whether you like it or not, it’s still a part of our past that must be remembered.
A devout Quaker wouldn’t have been looking to kill an Indian. But then again a devout Quaker would have married another Quaker. Daniel Boome was known as a Christian man in NC, read the Bible, but had no known affiliation with a particular church. I guess their experience being shunned in PA had something to do with that, but the area of NC where they settled afterPA was backwoods frontier at the time so not much in the way of formal church at the time, probably brush arbors.
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