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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...