Ep. 288: Viscera and Bones

Published: 2021-08-30 09:00:00

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Steven Rinella talks with Ted Franklin Belue, Phil Taylor, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: Jani's trouble with pant zippers; majoring in Boone and minoring in Kenton; dropping out of school to play the banjo; Ted being an extra in Last of the Mohicans; fashion forward longhunters; Boone's "tick licker"; the difference between a long rifle and a musket; making your own powder with your urine; the importance of basic diplomacy and not reveling in war; the first long hunt in Kentucky; a skeleton in a sycamore; alot of mythology; how Boone sang to his dogs; the two mysteries; hybrid accounts, footnotes, and a second West; the strange fate of Boone's remains and when bones and viscera are in different places; women civilizing men; Finding Daniel Boone, The Long Hunt, The Hunters of Kentucky, and the rest of Belue's books; and more.

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Referenced Books

The Frontiersman

by Alan Eckert

Ted Blue mentions reading this book about Simon Kenton and describes it as 'a tremendous book.' He credits this book with rekindling his childhood interest in Daniel Boone and frontier history.

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The Discovery, Settlement and present State of Kentucke

by John Filson

Referenced multiple times as the first biography of Daniel Boone, published in the 1780s. Ted Blue describes it as containing a biographical account of Boone and notes how 'incredibly dark and brooding and bloody it really was.'

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Finding Daniel Boone, His Last Days in Missouri and the Strange Fate of his remains

by Ted Blue

Ted Blue's book that came out on September 26th (the anniversary of Boone's death), covering the controversy about where Daniel Boone is buried and his final years in Missouri. Includes forensic evidence about Boone's skull.

Referenced at 00:00:08

The Long Hunt, Death of the Buffalo East of the Mississippi

by Ted Blue

Steve Rinella mentions this as one of Ted Blue's books that he read and calls it 'a good ass book.' It covers the history of buffalo hunting east of the Mississippi.

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The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America's First Far West

by Ted Blue

Steve Rinella's personal favorite of Ted Blue's books, which tells the stories and methodologies of the Long Hunters. This book won the Western Writers of America award for Best Short Nonfiction.

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