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Boone’s Surprise
“They may well say what they make sure you of Daniel Boone.”
— Simon Kenton
“It may perhaps be a damned lie or a damned truth. I explain to it as it was explained to me.”
— 19th Century correspondent with historian Lyman C. Draper
It is extremely hard to individual actuality from folklore in Frontier Partisan record. It is not even automatically fascinating. The folklore is element of the historical past — as Daniel Boone biographer John Mack Faragher asserts, folklore displays us how a people today observed on their own, and which is an important part of the heritage.
That does not suggest that we ought to just throw it all in the stewpot and deal with folklore as point. To complicate matters additional, from time to time it’s difficult to know what is “authentic” folklore and what is just some bullshit tale. Is there a distinction? I think so — but do not make me try out to articulate wherever the line is…
Circumstance in stage: the parentage of Daniel Boone’s daughter Jemima.
Just posted a Sidetrails episode on my Patreon site — an exploration of the folklore all around the allegation that Rebecca Boone bore a boy or girl fathered by Daniel Boone’s brother Ned Boone for the duration of a single of Daniel’s lots of really prolonged absences from residence. It is not revisionist heritage — these tales go way back in Boone lore, and they are not essentially portraying him or his family in a adverse gentle. Whether or not the tales have any foundation in truth is questionable — but even if it ain’t true, the way the tales are informed tell us something about frontier culture.
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