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Yvonne Kolbenschlag: Comments on Boone artifacts at TRH Comments re: - Chris Bennett has questions about the D Boone carvings with photo of carving at the Trabue-Russell House, 201 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY. Click on headline for complete story. By Yvonne Kolbenschlag About 20 years ago I read a book titled Boone, A Biography by Robert Morgan. The book cover blurb states that this book reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him. The author states that particular events define a life that became a legend. The review of the book states that . . . (Boone) has been an American icon for more than two hundred years . . . When reading this book, I discovered Dan Trabue. I had never heard of him! I know there are many persons throughout history who for one reason or another never are recognized and there are persons who capture attention and around whom legends grow, true or untrue. Boone was born in1734; Trabue in 1760. Boone led people into the Virginia wilderness (Kentucky was not yet a state) and established Fort Boonesborough. Trabue came later and with his older brother as leader supplied the early forts which were isolated outposts needing items from Virginia. They led pack horses with food and ammunition and possibly letters from home. Trabue was very involved in what was going on in early Kentucky and became actively involved later in Columbia history. He knew Boone and witnessed Boone's court marshal; Trabue's account is the only written one available. Boone was declared innocent. We may never have known about Trabue if he had not decided to write about his life to pass along to one of his grandsons. Maybe the grandson was not interested, because Dan Trabue's narrative fell into the hands of Lyman Draper who went through Kentucky collecting anything relating to Kentucky history. Kentucky government had no history department and was not interested. Draper found a source that accepted Trabue's narrative and other items he'd collected - The State Historical Society of Wisconsin in Madison. Chester Raymond Young from Columbia was a history professor and learned of the Draper Collection. Young went to Wisconsin, copied Trabue's writing, footnoted it to check accuracy as to dates, names etc. and put it in book form, "Westward Into Kentucky." Now we can read in Trabue's own words his 'journal of events' he dealt with during the late 1700s and early 1800s. If you visit Trabue's house you can see two 'D. Boon' tree parts standing in two fireplaces - without fire - and you can read what the Adair County News printed in 1961, as well as read that some sources say that we cannot be sure all carvings found - on trees in Kentucky and Tennessee and in caves- were done by D. Boon. Check it out and decide for yourself. - Yvonne Kolbenschlag This story was posted on 2016-11-12 05:20:59
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