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Daniel Boone didn't actually wear a raccoon-skin cap. |
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| We may have an actor named Noah Ludlow (1795–1886) to thank for the myth of Boone's raccoon-skin cap. He was hired to make frames for prints of a portrait of Boone first painted by artist Chester Harding in 1820. Later, he played a character in a performance called "The Hunters of Kentucky" and drew inspiration from Boone to create his look, which included the cap we now associate with the storied frontiersman. The performances were a hit, which was good for Ludlow, but not so much for historical accuracy. | |
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Daniel Boone may not be buried in his own grave. | |||||||||
| Perhaps fittingly for a folk hero, another key aspect of Boone's life (and, in this case, death) might not be accurate: his final resting place. After passing away in Defiance, Missouri, Boone was interred next to his wife Rebecca Boone in a cemetery in Marthasville, Missouri. Then, 25 years later, the couple's descendants were persuaded to have the remains exhumed and reinterred in a cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky. The descendants were promised that the site's owners would erect a monument to Boone, who was especially beloved in the Bluegrass State. The reinterment has been described as "perhaps the largest celebration event in Kentucky history," with just one problem: It's possible that the wrong graves were dug up and thus someone else's remains were transferred to the new cemetery. Two forensics experts have examined Boone's supposed skull, but neither offered conclusive evidence either way. | |||||||||
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