Autobiography of Colonel Daniel Boone: Illustrated

by Daniel Boone

Autobiography of Colonel Daniel Boone (Illustrated). Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] - September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, 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 the Kentucky, which was then part of Virginia but on the other side of the mountains from the settled areas. Despite some resistance from American Indian tribes such as the Shawnee, in 1775 Boone blazed his Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains from North Carolina and Tennessee into Kentucky. There he founded the village of Boonesborough, Kentucky, one of the first American settlements west of the Appalachians. Before the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 European people migrated to Kentucky/Virginia by following the route marked by Boone.

26 pages, Paperback

First published June 6, 2012

About the author

American frontiersman and folk hero Daniel Boone centrally figured in the settlement of Kentucky.

In 1905, Daniel Carter Beard founded the sons of Daniel Boone, who in 1910 merged with the newly formed Boy Scouts of America.

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