Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Daniel Boone documentary

Picturesque and educational short film on the real Daniel Boone who, fictionalised, featured in a 1936 movie and a tv series starring Fess Parker. Reconstructions in this documentary are excellent and I recommend you find time to watch it if you have an interest in American frontier history. Not a coonskin cap in sight. Boone was probably one of the inspirations behind Fenimore Cooper's Nathaniel Bumppo aka Hawkeye in the Leatherstocking tales.