Daniel Boone?

slamdunk · Dec 17, 2020

Tristate · Dec 17, 2020

Wonder what he would have used to scratch his name in it with

slamdunk · Dec 17, 2020

Tristate said:
Wonder what he would have used to scratch his name in it with

My guess would be his knife??

Tristate · Dec 17, 2020

That would take some serious time with a really hard knife.

Did he misspell his own name?

slamdunk · Dec 17, 2020

Tristate said:
That would take some serious time with a really hard knife.

Did he misspell his own name?

I noticed the "e" was missing as well and messaged the OP, but haven't gotten a response yet.

Maybe his knife tip broke before he could finish ?

DeerHunter53 · Dec 21, 2020

slamdunk said:
I noticed the "e" was missing as well and messaged the OP, but haven't gotten a response yet.

Maybe his knife tip broke before he could finish ?

or it just wore down over time and now you can't see the e

Zwickey · Dec 22, 2020

Marker: Last Boone Bear Tree, Johnson City, Tennessee

Historical marker gives vague directions to a nearby tree carved by Daniel Boone to commemorate a bear kill -- vague because the tree fell down 100 years ago, which the marker fails to mention.

www.roadsideamerica.com

"Boone Bear Trees" became one of America's earliest tourist attractions. They were considered honorable relics for the towns that had them. This, of course, led to counterfeit Boone Bear Trees, while the real ones gradually grew old and died. The last known survivor stood in northeast Tennessee, on the slope of Carroll Creek, near the town of Jonesborough.

Its inscription, about six feet off the ground, was "D. Boon CillED A. BAr on tree in the YEAR 1760."

Apparently he was very bad at spelling.