Talk:Boone Helm

Plagiarism
Cannibalism section (Crow escape) copied verbatim from "Liver-Eating Johnson" article, but attributed in this article to a different person, Mr. Boone Helm. At least one of this instances is incorrect, unless a remarkable coincidence is afoot.

-Tim Noronha — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.175.129.61 (talk) 21:05, 23 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I did the last overhaul of the article. The wording in the previous version was very much like dramatic prose, so it doesn't surprise me if an earlier contributor copied something. Can you provide the bibliographic details and/or a link to the article? Boneyard90 (talk) 12:18, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

time in British Columbia
the first citation indicates he made it as far as the Cariboo Country in British Columbia, I think to Barkerville itself, and |I've seen other writeups about his time in what has since become Canada....the account I read I thought said he was captured and executed in The Dalles but that's not the issue; it's that the article doesn'yt mention the full scope of his travels, which some of the web cites do......there's an apocryphal story \I know of that indicates he came through the Slocan Country of British Columbia, as the Sinixt have this story about white men raping and eating women and children, but they don't mention him by name (they mention it as if we all did that....). Anyways just noting that the article could have a lot more detail; there' a particular couple of murders in British Columbia, too, I'll see if I can remember where they're mentioned.Skookum1 (talk) 07:09, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Continuity error in article
There is a section in the article that doesn't make sense. See below:

"Unable to convict Helm without witnesses, the authorities released him and he accompanied his brother to Texas.[3]

Helm did not remain long. When he was finally forced out of Salt Lake City, he moved back to California'"

Since when has Salt Lake City been in Texas? Obviously a sentence or two was skipped. I suggest we simply delete the part which says "When he was finally forced out of Salt Lake City". That is unless someone can regale on what happened between going to Texas with his brother and his subsequent move and ejection from Salt Lake City. TobusRex (talk) 08:25, 3 May 2013 (UTC)


 * The article has suffered continuity problems of that nature for quite awhile. It's like some of the original editors copied & pasted from different sources, and placed one after the other, so in some places there was overlapping redundancy. If those sections were excised, it might have left the gap you perceive. Boneyard90 (talk) 12:19, 3 May 2013 (UTC)


 * I found a source which disputes some of the facts in the Wiki article on Boone Helm. I'm going to rewrite a chunk of the article to more accurately reflect Boone Helm's life. TobusRex (talk) 01:45, 4 May 2013 (UTC)