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Audio Daniel Boone and Ginseng an excerpt from an interview with Randy Halstead by Mary Hufford: hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.074020?loclr=fbafc (Coal River Folklife Project, West Virgina) On October 22, 1734 American explorer and pioneer Daniel Boone was born in Pennsylvania. As Randy Halstead says, one of the ways Boon made his fortune was through the ginseng trade. To explore the Coal River Folklife Project further (and learn more about American ginseng), see the presentation Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia loc.gov/collection/folklife-and-landscape-in-southern-west-virginia/about-this-collection/?loclr=fbafc Image: Daniel Boon. Lithograph by Charles Juehne, 1876. Prints and Photographs Division. For a larger image and more information, see loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a37702/?loclr=fbafc
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:52:09 +0000

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