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."
(Excerpt) Read more at oldvirginiablog.blogspot.com ...
I learned how good Ed Ames could sing.
I learned how good Ed Ames could sing.
He is good with a hatchet too. They could call him Davey Crotch-ette.
Boone's son Nathan was an accomplished frontiersman in his own right.
Mr. niteowl77
My Proctor forebears served in the Virginia militia in the Revolution and went to Kentucky to join Boone during the seige of Boonesborough.
And he was an ancestor of Pat Boone who could really sing good at still looks great!
My 4th Gr Grandfather (who served for the entire Revolution) did a Boonesborough expedition. I am not sure if Daniel was directly involved in that one, but I believe it was the second.
I watched Daniel Boone (Fess Parker) as a kid. I thought Veronica Cartwright at that age was hot.
When ever I watch those reruns today, or of let’s say Gun Smoke, or any other western or frontier show of that era, 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.
I mean let’s face it. Daniel Boone was one of those racist, murdering scumbags that opened America so the hordes of European plunderers could flood this once beautiful land and turn it into America. The America that has raped and plundered the whole Earth, single handedly caused climate change, the permanent destruction of so many plant and animal species and has caused billions to be in poverty.
In truth, Boone and his family were thrown out of the Reading, PA area for being crotchedy, dishonest business people. Daniel, younger at the time of the ignoble exodus, was reputed to be a mean drunk. There are records of this episode in PA museums that have been ignored but admitted to by historians. As the article stated which I read years ago “Why would you bring up the dirt of your revered grandfather?”
“...they will be banished, destroyed and forbidden. ...”
Nah... everyone KNOWS Dan’l Boone was “an early advocate of Gay Marriage, equal pay for women, a strong supporter for Global Warming and anti-gun legislation, amnesty for undocumented workers, and a crusader for social justice for oppressed minorities”...
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That’s how it’ll be re-written, eventually.
I read of an account where Daniel Boone sat around a campfire with some Indians and they congenially reminisced about the time Boone was their captive.
You mean he DIDN’T “kill a barr when he was only three”...
Oh.
That was Davey Crockett.
Never mind.
Thanks. I really enjoyed the blog.
I remember fearing that they were going to kill him off during the series.
You’re right, Boone set the proper 2nd Amendment example by carrying a muzzle loader when he coulda had an AK.
And we all know Prez Lincoln was a democrat and the KKK is a tool of the republican party.
In real life Israel Books was killed at the Battle of Blue Licks on Aug. 19, 1782. My 5th great grandfather went on the retaliatory raid in Nov 1782 with Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark among others.
Darn spell check. Israel Boone.
I like his daughter-in-law Olive’s description of making socks. They used thistle for strength and buffalo wool for warmth! Breaking down and spinning thistle would be no easy task — tougher than flax to make linen I would think.
“Their screams and cries could be heard for miles.”
I rather doubt that.
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