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A cast-bronze sculpture of Daniel Boone seated by a fire ring with two hunting dogs, by sculptor Sherry Edwards, made for Appalachian State University's 1999 anniversary year. Boone's tourism authority places it beside the Duck Pond on Rivers Street; a UNC database gives Tomlinson Park.
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Daniel Boone & Dogs
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The Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina database, a UNC Libraries project, describes Daniel Boone here as a working hunter, not the fringed-buckskin frontiersman of popular memory. It records a cast-bronze sculpture of him seated on a log before a fire ring with two hunting dogs, a Pennsylvania long rifle on his shoulder, a tomahawk in the log and a hunting knife in his waist sash.
The database credits sculptor Sherry Edwards, acting chair of Appalachian State University's Art Department, who began the work for the university's 1999 anniversary year and died in January 1999 before it was finished.
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A bronze figure with two dogs, which the Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina database lists as public with the University as custodian. Boone's tourism authority (March 2026) lists the statue among sights to see.
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Appalachian State University campus, Boone: beside the Duck Pond on Rivers Street according to the Boone tourism authority (page updated March 2026); the UNC database gives Tomlinson Park at River Street and Stadium Drive.
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