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
Two darling sons, and a brother, have I lost by savage hands, which have also taken from me forty valuable horses, and abundance of cattle.
Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.
Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!
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.