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Daniel Boone TV show historical accuracy

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I noticed this in the opening battle of The Revenant.

Dude was looking around for attackers, with his frizzen open.

That's easy to answer... their technical consultant didn't mention closing the metal thingy on the side of the long wood and metal thingy. "Somebody get me a 94 Winchester, you just crank it and go boom. "
That's Hollywood's version of gun handling...imho.
 
I loved it as a kid, but havent seen it in ...probably fifty years. I distinctly remember though that almost every show there was a fight resulting in someone rolling across the campfire. Poor Fess Parker....between D.Boone and Davey Crockett it must have been impossible to get any other roles being so type cast.
Its on YouTube
 
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wait till he gives that famous hand sign. can any one do it.? it isn't easy.
 
I like the green cloth buck skin shirts with fringe and his wife with her dresses with zippers on them.
 
I've been watching (and enjoying) some re-runs of the old Daniel Boone TV show. Some of the whoppers include the episode where Fess Parker (Boone) meets Aaron Burr (in Boonesborough) after Burr kills Hamilton in a duel (in 1804). Fess Parker goes on to foil Burr's attempt to seize the Louisiana Territory.

Here is the latest whopper...
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I've been watching the series myself. It was supposed to be available on Amazon Prime but apparently not in my area. I ended up ordering the DVD set off eBay. I took this same photo and was going to post it. You beat me too it!

My only complaints are it's often not formatted for my TV and there is no Closed Captioning. It's more Hollywood writing than actual events. They seem to have completely passed over his Military Service in the War for Independence. The beginning of the second season has us already being the "United States of America".

I do enjoy seeing some of the actors in their younger versions.
 
I always get a kick out of the mountainous, semi-arid geography of the show as well. Hard to hide the true shooting location of the show. Definitely not filmed in KY (or anywhere east of the Mississippi).

From what I understand, it was filmed in California and Utah; both fairly dry locations.
 
If you look close most of the rifles are trapdoor Springfield with a non functioning frizzen stuck to the side of the lock plate. Still, they are fun to watch. Wouldn't have missed it as a kid.

Even Boone's gun was a converted Trapdoor. Makes me wonder how they did the scenes when he fires it.

I recently watched an Episode called "The Gun". His rifle is destroyed in an Avalanch. He walks all the way to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He orders one with a 44" barrel, a smaller diameter bore to save powder and lead and special sights. Everyone is shocked by the length of the barrel. At the close of the episode, he leaves Pennsylvaina with his Kentucky "Long Rifle" as if it was his invention. Funny thing is, it's the same gun he's been carrying from the beginning!
 
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