tenngun said:
I also got a little miffed about the raid on Chillicothe. The Shawnee were going to burn Boonsbourgh down and kill most of the people in the station, but it was cruel when whites did the same thing to Chillicothe????
Was also a little miffed that it wasn’t pointed out that the Shawnee didn’t live in Kentucky, only a passing reference to the fact that Chillicothe was across the Ohio river. :shake:
The Shawnee had already driven other tribes out of Kentucky much earlier and were using Kentucky both as a "buffer" area between them other tribes and as something of a hunting preserve.
Had my people been Shawnee and I was young enough back then, I probably would have went to war along with Blackfish. But that was what "Young Men/Warriors did" during the times and especially to preserve being able to get meat supplies and skins for trade and use in making Lodges and other things.
Don't know for sure, but there actually may have been Elk in Kentucky in that period. There were still pretty good numbers of Elk and Mountain Bison in Virginia in the early 18th century, until a disease in the deer population pretty much wiped out the elk.
I kept shaking my head and thinking "Holy manure! How many years since Fess Parker played Daniel Boone and this production all these years later still has so many of the clothing and equiment errors from 50 or more years before!!"
There were three things I liked about the program, though.
1. Any modern TV programs on the period is going to spark more interest in the period and that probably is a good thing for us.
2. I really liked the way they tied events in Boonesboro back to what was happening in the East and showed how the British planned to effectively surround and force the Colonists back into the British Empire.
3. They did at least talk about how the British arming the NA tribes and using them as Allies, actually caused much more hatred of the British than might have otherwise happened.
Gus