Daniel Boone

Created by Mr. Steve Hauprich for the acceleration and remediation of US history students.

While many colonists were sojourners and explorers of the American Frontier, Daniel Boone was arguably the most famous for his accomplishments, and became part of an inspirational frontier mythology helping to shape American character thereafter.

“Daniel Boone was a man. Yes a big man.With an eye like and eagle and as tall as a mountain was he.

Daniel Boone was a man. Yes a big man. He was brave, he was fearless and as tough as a mighty oak tree.”

He became alegendary figuredue to his courageand great abilityto thrive in thewilderness andsurvive militarycombat situations.

His life was similar to other men who earned their reputations in the American wild likeGeorge Washington, William Johnson, and Nick Stoner.

Daniel Boone was born in 1734 and raised as a Quaker in Pennsylvania, until the Boone Family moved to North Carolina when he was 15 years old…and young

Boone would begin his lifelong pattern of migrationinto frontier areas in searchof prosperity and happinessfor himself and others.

Possibly due to the Regulator Movementin North Carolina, Boone did not want tostay in Carolina…he’d joined numerousexpeditions into the wilderness during theFrench and Indian War…

earning a reputation for stealth and courage…and he would now leadlarge parties of settlersWestward.

Boone led a group of settlers across theAppalachians through the CumberlandGap in 1775 into the new western landsof Kentucky…

establishing the frontier settlement ofBoonesborough

Boone’slegacy would bebuilt aroundaround hisdaringleadershipskills…and abilityto surviveconflictswith Indians.

During the American Revolution, frontier settlements like Boonesborough would face numerous attacks, taking the lives of many people on both sides of the conflict.

One of Boone’s most heroic episodes was the rescue of his teenage daughter from…

her NativeAmericankidnappersin 1776.

Boone was later captured by Shawnee warriors during the AmericanRevolution in 1778, and was briefly adopted intotheir tribe, until he madea daring escape to helpsave his friends andfamily back at the fortin Boonesborough,Kentucky.

Thereafter in life Daniel Boone would relocate numerous times into new settlements on the frontier, earning a living as a surveyor, land speculator, elected official in the Virginia Legislature, and often times finding himself losing money due to changing laws regarding his investments.

Later in life Daniel Boone took a job inthe Spanish Territory of Missouri workingfor the Spanish as a government officialhelping to bring settlers into Spanishterritories…until the Louisiana PurchaseTreaty suddenly put him back on American soil and working with theUS Government.

                        

Daniel Boone American Pioneer and Trailblazer

1734 - 1820    ”I have never been lost, but I will admit     to being confused for several weeks. “                                                         —Daniel Boone

While Daniel Boone was not a scholar, he didenjoy reading the Bible and Gulliver’s Travels…

…we could even speculate he might have readThomas Paine’s Common Sense or possiblyBen Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac …

…maybe even the Declaration of Independence

or the US Constitution…

"Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist

only in the regions of fancy.With me the world has taken great liberties,

and yet I have been but a common man." ....Daniel Boone

                                                                                

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