Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boonewas an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then part of Virginia, but on the other side of the mountains from the settled areas. As a young adult, Boone supplemented his farm income by hunting and trapping game, and selling their pelts in the fur market. Through this...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth2 November 1734
CityBirdsboro, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
I'm going now. My time has come.
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
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.
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.
I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days.
Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.