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Boone, Daniel

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1734–1820, American frontiersman, b. Oley (now Exeter) township, near Reading, Pa. The Boones, English Quakers, left Pennsylvania in 1750 and settled (1751 or 1752) in the Yadkin valley of North Carolina. Daniel served as a wagoner in Braddock's ill-fated expedition (1755) against Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) and almost certainly took part in Gen. John Forbes's successful march on the same place in 1758. He became interested in Florida, but his wife, the former Rebecca Bryan, whom he married in 1756, refused to accompany him. He explored (1769–71) the Kentucky region thoroughly, and its prospects delighted him. Attacks by Native Americans turned back his first colonizing attempt (1773), but in Mar., 1775, as advance agent for Richard Henderson and the Transylvania Company and with an armed band of 30 men, he blazed the famous Wilderness Road and founded Boonesboro (or Boonesborough) on the Kentucky River. Henderson arrived in a few weeks with additional settlers, and later in the same…
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Full text Article Portrait of Daniel Boone (1734-1820) (litho)

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Portrait of Daniel Boone (1734-1820) (litho)
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Full text Article Boone (Daniel) Festival

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Held annually since 1948 in Barbourville, Kentucky, this week-long festival honors the frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734-1820), who in 1775 was the first to carve a trail through the Appalachian Mountains from eastern Tennessee all the way to the Ohio River. For 50 years Boone's “Wilderness Road” was…
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Full text Article Daniel Boone (1734–1820)

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Full text Article Daniel Boone 1734–1820

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Daniel Boone (1734-1820) defends his family against Indian attack, 1874 (colour litho) (detail)
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Full text Article Wilderness Road

From Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
The Wilderness Road was a trail blazed by American pioneer Daniel Boone (c. 1734–1820) as he led settlers westward across the Appalachian Mountains into present-day Kentucky between 1775 and 1810, facilitating the early development of the nation's first frontier—the Ohio River Valley. The trail…
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A wanderer is man from his birth.He was born in a shipOn the breast of the river of Time. ARNOLD, Matthew ‘ The Future ’. [Reply on being asked if he had ever been lost] I can’t say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. [Attr.] I have done almost every human activity inside a…
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