Ted Franklin Belue is author of Finding Daniel Boone: His Last Days in Missouri and the
Strange Fate of His Remains, and The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s
First Far West, 1750-1792 and The Long Hunt: Death of the Buffalo East of the Mississippi. He
edited two biographies on Daniel Boone, including Lyman C. Draper’s landmark The Life of
Daniel Boone, while publishing more than 100 essays in trade and scholarly publications
Ted served as consultant-commentator for The History Channel and advisor for A&E, BBC, and
NBC. He survived the French and Indian War as a Hollywood extra in The Last of the Mohicans,
and lives in Kentucky with his wife Lavina, three cats, a dog, and too many guitars and banjos.
He recently retired from Murray State University’s Department of History.
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