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
I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
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.
We continued not in a state of indolence, but hunted every day, and prepared a little cottage to defend us from the winter storms.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.
It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.
Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!
I'm going now. My time has come.
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
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!
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 was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.