Ted Franklin Belue is also the author of Finding Daniel Boone: His Last Days in Missouri & the Strange Fate of His Remains and The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First Far West and has edited two Boone biographies, including Lyman C. Draper’s landmark work, The Life of Daniel Boone. He has served as a consultant and on-air commentator for the History Channel and advisor for A&E, BBC, and NBC and survived the French and Indian War as a Hollywood extra in The Last of the Mohicans. He lives in Murray, Kentucky, with his wife, Lavina, and a horde of dogs, cats, guitars, and banjos.