The Aaron Burr Story

Season 2, Episode 7, Aired

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Disgraced Vice President Aaron Burr arrives in Boonesborough looking for a guide to the mouth of the Cumberland River. Daniel smells a rat and declines but young Jericho Jones agrees to undertake the task.
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    The Aaron Burr Story is the poster episode for an interesting phenomena about the 1964-70 NBC frontier drama Daniel Boone. It would often jump back and forth in time periods as much as 30 years from one episode to the next. Such is the case with this one which takes place around 1805 and inserts the main characters of the show into the real life historical tale of disgraced Vice-President Aaron Burr's purported treason against the United States whereby he plotted to break off a huge chunk of territory for himself to govern.


    Now despite the fact that the real Daniel Boone would have been over 70 years old at the year in which this episode is set and despite the fact that Boone and Aaron Burr most certainly never met, it is an entertaining and well-acted episode. Leif Erickson does well as the shifty Aaron Burr endowing the character with the right mixtures of sympathy, pity, and disgust. Robert Logan, who appeared on Daniel Boone as a recurring actor in season two, has his finest moment of the series as the young, impulsive, and impressionable Jericho Jones. It's a shame Logan was let go from the series after only one season. He had much more chemistry with the rest of the cast than predecessor Albert Salmi.

    Stars Fess Parker and Ed Ames are their usual stalwart selves as the rush to keep Burr's plot from coming to fruition and keep Logan from being caught up in it. You have several nice confrontations between the TV versions of Aaron Burr and Daniel Boone. It almost makes you wonder what would have happened had the two men met in real life.moreless
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