The Daniel Boone Pipe

Draper Manuscripts, 18 S 276

Mrs. Halley, Lexington, Ky., says the Boone pipe was dug up at Boonsboro in digging post holes. It was a small stone pipe, in the shape of an opossum’s head and neck, with Boone’s initials “D.B.” cut on it. That one Blaine, a carpenter, worked at Mr. Halley’s and carried it off without leave. He left the country and since got killed on a railroad.