April 25, 2010
Historian Digs Into Tales of Famous Reburials
Reburials of famous people might seem morbid, but the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen says the topic is often funny and frequently peculiar.
Take Daniel Boone, buried in a Missouri graveyard shortly after his death in 1820. Kentucky wanted Boone back, despite Missouri's opposition and Boone's having sworn never to set foot in Kentucky again after he left in about 1790. So Kentucky hired three men to excavate what were believed to be Boone's remains. They were hauled to
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