Daniel Boone with Hunting Dogs, Appalachian State University, Boone
The bronze sculpture depicts Boone in a camp setting with two hunting dogs at his side. Boone is sitting on a log before a fire ring with his Pennsylvania long rifle resting against his proper left shoulder. He is clad in a hunting shirt and trousers, moccasins and a broad brimmed hat. He is also wearing a powder horn, pouch and patch knife. His waist sash holds a hunting knife and a tomahawk sticks in the log upon which he sits.
Appalachian State University
After January 1999
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Cast bronze
The sculpture was commissioned for the year-long bicentennial celebration for the founding of Appalachian State University in 1999. Its exact dedication date was not determined.
The sculpture is a realistic representation of Daniel Boone and not the coonskin cap, fringed
buckskin wearing figure as often depicted. The sculptor, Sherry Edwards, was acting chair of the
Art Department at Appalachian State University when she began work on this project for the
university’s centennial celebration year of 1999. She died in January 1999 before seeing its
completion.
Daniel Boone is famous for exploring the American frontier beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
He blazed one of the trails that opened up areas west of the Appalachian’s to increased
European settlement. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1734, lived in the Yadkin Valley, North
Carolina from 1752-1769, where he married Rebecca Bryan, raised a large family, and traded
animal furs. He died in Missouri in 1820 and is buried in Kentucky. Daniel Boone was said to
never travel without his hunting dogs.
The statue is located in Tomlinson Park which is located on the corner of River Street and Stadium Drive on the campus of Appalachian State University in Boone. The statue faces River Street near a life size bronze statue of the Appalachian State Mountaineer mascot.
The memorial stands on the lawn by shady trees and shrubbery.
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