An Unofficial 'The MeatEater Podcast' Reading List

Ep. 288: Viscera and Bones

August 30, 2021

Description

Steven Rinella talks with Ted Franklin Belue, Phil Taylor, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Jani's trouble with pant zippers; majoring in Boone and minoring in Kenton;...
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Books Referenced

The Frontiersman

Author: Alan Eckert

Context:

Ted Blue mentions reading this book about Simon Kenton and describes it as 'a tremendous book.' He credits this book with rekindling his childhood interest in Daniel Boone and frontier history.

Finding Daniel Boone, His Last Days in Missouri and the Strange Fate of his remains

Author: Ted Blue

Context:

Ted Blue's book that came out on September 26th (the anniversary of Boone's death), covering the controversy about where Daniel Boone is buried and his final years in Missouri. Includes forensic evidence about Boone's skull.

The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America's First Far West

Author: Ted Blue

Context:

Steve Rinella's personal favorite of Ted Blue's books, which tells the stories and methodologies of the Long Hunters. This book won the Western Writers of America award for Best Short Nonfiction.

The Discovery, Settlement and present State of Kentucke

Author: John Filson

Context:

Referenced multiple times as the first biography of Daniel Boone, published in the 1780s. Ted Blue describes it as containing a biographical account of Boone and notes how 'incredibly dark and brooding and bloody it really was.'

The Long Hunt, Death of the Buffalo East of the Mississippi

Author: Ted Blue

Context:

Steve Rinella mentions this as one of Ted Blue's books that he read and calls it 'a good ass book.' It covers the history of buffalo hunting east of the Mississippi.