Excerpt from The Library of American Biography, Vol. 13: Second Series

Of the many writers who have had occasion to give sketches of the history of Daniel Boone, scarcely any two have agreed in many of the prominent events of his life. More especially have they differed in the time and place of his birth, and that of his decease. A fiction about the latter event, which was with too little caution adopted and published by the late Timothy Flint, and, on the authority of his book, propagated by several others, had its origin in the following manner. A traveller from Chillicothe, Ohio, visited the Missouri Territory, in the summer of 1818. On his return, an editor of a weekly paper, in that town, questioned this gentleman for news from Missouri, this territory then being a frontier in the "Far West." In a waggish humor, the traveller replied, "I do not recollect any thing new or strange, except one event that occurred while I was in the territory. The celebrated hunter Daniel Boone died in a very singular manner while I was there."

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