Table of Contents
Preface 13
A Selected Two-Hundred-Year Daniel Boone Postmortem Chronology 17
Acknowledgements 21
Part I Missouri, 1820-44
1 First Light, Tuesday, September 26, 1820 27
2 Crossing the Big Muddy into Boone's World 30
3 Where the Hunter Lived and Died 37
4 The Bed Stood in the N.E. Corner of the N.W. Room 44
5 Coffin in the Ballroom 52
6 On His Last Trail 59
7 Sitting Up with the Dead 67
8 News of His Decease Had Spread Rapidly 75
9 In the Heart of Boone Country 83
10 We Have His Heart and His Brain. And His Skin. 90
11 I Believe Grandfather and Grandmother Are Buried Here 98
Part II Kentucky, 1842-2020
12 Our City Is Without Burying Grounds 109
13 The Gentlemen from Kentucky Finally Carried Their Point 119
14 Desecrated to Gratify a Spasm of Kentucky Pride 126
15 The Skull of Boone Was Handled by the People Present 134
16 The Most August Funeral Solemnity Ever Observed in Kentucky 141
17 Not Withstanding All of Kentucky's Fine Promises, Nothing More Was Done 149
18 The Mortal Part of the Old Pioneer Still Sleeps in Missouri Soil 158
19 He Gave Me All Kinds of Hell 165
20 More Boone Skullduggery 173
21 Tales from the Morgue 182
22 He Analyzed His Brain 190
Epilogue 197
Bibliography 201
Index 215
About the Author 221