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Boone Blog # 10 David Wright — Frontier Artist
David Wright's painting — Gateway to the West — which greets travelers in the Visitor's Center at Cumberland Gap National Historical...
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patricialhudson
Feb 9, 20234 min read
Boone Blog # 9 Cumberland Gap (Part 1)
In the fall of 2000, I got a phone call from a ranger at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, inviting me to participate in a...
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patricialhudson
Dec 26, 20223 min read
Boone Blog # 8 Many thanks, Ted!
Photo by Barbara Bell of Ted Franklin Belue as a British gunner on the ramparts of Fort William Henry, during his seven week stint the...
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patricialhudson
Nov 22, 20222 min read
Boone Blog # 7 Out of the Library
Not all of my research was conducted in a library. I learned an immeasurable amount from an amazing community of historical reenactors at...
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patricialhudson
Nov 2, 20223 min read
Boone Blog # 6 Fact or Fiction
Now that Traces has, at long last, made its way into the world, it feels like the right time to address a question authors of historical...
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patricialhudson
Mar 31, 20223 min read
Boone Blog # 5 — Then There Were Three
As I dug into the documents Draper had collected, trying to trace the roots of the Boone rumors, it dawned on me that whether the stories...
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patricialhudson
Feb 24, 20222 min read
Boone Blog # 4 — An Unlikely Hero
At the end of his life, Lyman Draper considered himself a failure. “I have wasted my life in puttering,” he wrote. His goal had been to...
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patricialhudson
Feb 24, 20223 min read
Boone Blog # 3 — Rumors
John Filson’s lack of interest in Rebecca fueled my determination to learn everything I could about her. I went back to the book that had...
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patricialhudson
Feb 2, 20223 min read
Boone Blog # 2 - How It Began
I had no idea what I was setting in motion on the day in 1996 when I spotted a biography of Daniel Boone on a bookstore shelf. It had...
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patricialhudson
Feb 2, 20222 min read
Boone Blog # 1 - Introduction
I’m thrilled that my novel, Traces, a retelling of the Daniel Boone saga from the women’s point of view, will be published in the fall of...
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