Finding Daniel Boone: His Last Days in Missouri & the Strange Fate of His Remains

by Ted Belue

Follow the final days of an American frontier icon as a historian examines what happened to him after he died.Finding Daniel Boone is a unique tribute to America’s frontier hero and offers closure to the greatest of all his where he was buried. Part biography, part historical travelogue, and eloquently narrated using fresh sources, rare forensic data, and new field interviews, this is more than just a search for a man’s bones. Fully re-creating Daniel’s lost world, noted historian and author Ted Franklin Belue journeys along the famous Pathfinder’s last trail, from Missouri and back to Kentucky, meeting a host of colorful characters. As little has been written about Boone’s western days, where he lived the longest, this work examines the legendary woodsman’s life as much as his death.“With vivid writing, and ample historic documentation, Ted Franklin Belue invites readers on an incredible journey that introduces them to a new slant on an old story about one of the greatest American frontier heroes. Belue tirelessly re-creates Boone’s lost world and follows his last trail in the year of his death’s bicentennial, teasing us with a provocative Where does Daniel Boone rest, in Missouri or Kentucky?” —KYForward

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography

227 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 28, 2020

Reviews

[mark… · Rating 3 out of 5]

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Great find at Black Swan Books 📚 From book description:
Finding Daniel Boone is a unique tribute to America's frontier hero and offers closure to the greatest of all his mysteries: where he was buried. Part biography, part historical travelogue and eloquently narrated using fresh sources, rare forensic data and new field interviews, this is more than just a search for a man's bones. Fully re-creating Daniel's lost world, noted historian and author Ted Franklin Belue journeys along the famous Pathfinder's last trail, from Missouri and back to Kentucky, meeting a host of colorful characters. As little has been written about Boone's western days, where he lived the longest, this work examines the legendary woodsman's life as much as his death.

[Keith W. Parks · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too many superfluous literary curlicues. Inconclusive results. From the book I was left with the impression that Daniel Boone's remains are likely in both Missouri by virtue of original burial and Kentucky because of sloppy exhumation.

[Paul Lunger · Rating 3 out of 5]

In "Finding Daniel Boone: His Last Days in Missouri and the Strange Fate of His Remains", Ted Belue tackles a subject that is one of the more obscure in American history in a book that ends up as kind of a disappointment. The story runs across the states of Missouri & Kentucky in an attempt to answer the question - where are the remains of Daniel Boone? The answer is not as simple as it seems as we the reader and the author are sent on a wild-goose chase across these states with varying evidence trying to prove just where Boone is buried. What's interesting is that you have people whom the author interviews in both states that claim the remains leading to a frustrating conclusion of what the answer truly is. This book honestly is not one I fully expected upon title and is one that may or may not hold the interest of people with a general interest in history & is more-so for die-hard fans of Boone himself.

[Carissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

an interesting read RTC

[Kyle.L.Carroll · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ted Belue is always worth the read and never more so than this small book end to his many writtings on Daniel Boone.