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285 Acknowledgments The notes that follow, along with the bibliographical note, demonstrate my indebtedness to the many who, starting during Boone’s lifetime, have studied and written about Daniel Boone. I am also indebted to the Kentucky Historical Society (in particular to Kenneth H. Williams for his guidance and to Beth Shields, Diane Shelton Meister, and Don Rightmyer for their research in the Draper manuscripts), the Filson Historical Society (special thanks to James J. Holmberg, curator of special collections, and Jacob Lee and Pen Bogert ), the Virginia Historical Society, Liberty Hall Historic Site (notably Sara Harger Elliott, now at the Kentucky Historical Society, and Randy Huff), and many libraries—including the Library of Congress (thanks in particular to Bonnie Coles), Yale University Library, the Library of the University of Cincinnati (thanks to Linda Newman, digital projects coordinator, University Libraries), Westerly Public Library (particular thanks to Caroline Kreck, reference librarian), and Stonington Free Library. For records relating to Boone in Missouri that are in the archives of the St. Charles County Historical Society, I am grateful to William Popp, the society’s archivist, and to John Korasick, administrative archivist, State Archives, Local Records, in Jefferson City. Neal O. Hammon has been extremely generous in sharing his deep knowledge of history, surveying, and land records in Kentucky during the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary periods. Ken Kamper, historian for the Boone Society, kindly guided me around Boone sites in Missouri and shared his extensive learning about Boone and the Boone family in Missouri. Mary Lee Eggart, research assistant in the Cartographic Section of Louisiana State University’s Department of Geology and Anthropology, prepared most of the maps for this book. My thanks also to Rand Dotson at 286 Acknowledgments Louisiana State University Press for his patience and skillful guidance and to Elizabeth Gratch for her wise and careful copyediting. In addition, I am grateful to Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Stephen Aron, Neal Hammon, Richard Taylor, and an unnamed reader for Louisiana State University Press for their very helpful comments on drafts of this book. I alone am responsible for any errors in it. ...

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