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So he did. I only remembered him as Davy. And it was Davy who kilt him a bar when he was only three.
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Yeah, I thought about that last night, long after the computer was off; sorry about that! But heck, they both had coonskin caps!
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but, "One of the best-known inscriptions was carved into a tree in present Washington County, Tennessee which reads "D. Boon Cilled a. Bar [killed a bear] on [this] tree in the year 1760". -wikipedia
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Who you gonna believe, a Wikipedia entry or the theme song from a 1950s TV series? Both impeccable sources.
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Go back to the souce. Have you ever known a tree to lie?
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I am trying to get the image: Killed a bear on the tree.
Tied it up? Nailed it? It was up in the branches when kilt?
Strange that.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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I've known a few deer hunters, and they hunt deer from deer stands up on trees -- maybe he was on a deer bar stand when he kilt his bar.
Last edited by tsuwm; 08/10/09 05:58 PM.
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In the 1770s, before Boone became an international celebrity, someone discovered a message on the bark of a beech tree that stood on the banks of a small tributary of the Watauga River in Tennessee. It read: “D. Boon Cilled a Bar on tree in the Year 1760.”
Over the centuries, many other versions of this carving have appeared on trees in North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri. Hunters did often leave such graffiti. But did Daniel Boone carve these words?
Maybe. But Boone, a fairly literate man, always spelled his name with an e on the end. The mystery remains. source If you "tree" an animal you're hunting, that means it has climbed a tree--and the implication is that it cannot escape then. Unless you're a poor shot.
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D. Boone was born in 1734 so he couldn't have been the one who "[k]illed him a bar when he was only three" in 1760.
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"[k]illed him a bar when he was only three" in 1760.
David Stern Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836)
-joe (at least Boon(e) had been born) friday
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