Alex, Grace, and Matt discuss <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/909/909-h/909-h.htm">The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon by John Filson</a>, the seminal text in the creation of the Daniel Boone myth of the American hunter. Who underwrote Boone's expeditions? This <a href="https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/conflict-daniel-boone-and-indians-1773-relief-sculpture">bas relief</a> of Boone and why the US state would memorialize him as an &quot;indian killer.&quot; Also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray,_4th_Earl_of_Dunmore#/media/File:Sir_Joshua_Reynolds_-_John_Murray,_4th_Earl_of_Dunmore_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg">this is Lord Dunmore</a>.
Intro song: Daniel Boone by Pixies
Morgan, Robert. 2008. Boone: a biography
Faragher, John Mack. 1992. Daniel Boone: the life and legend of an American pioneer.
Slotkin, Richard. 2006. Regeneration through violence: the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

41 - Areopagitica by John Milton (1644)

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