Daniel Boone (October 22, 1734 – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky. He also became a businessman, soldier and politician who represented three different counties in the Virginia General Assembly following the American Revolutionary War. After his death, Boone became the subject of many heroic tall tales and works of fiction.
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Daniel Boone (October 22, 1734 – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky. He also became a businessman, soldier and politician who represented three different counties in the Virginia General Assembly following the American Revolutionary War. He was a legend in his own lifetime, especially after an account of his adventures was published in 1784. After his death, Boone became the subject of many heroic tall tales and works of fiction. In American popular culture, Boone is still remembered as one of the foremost early frontiersmen, even if the epic mythology often overshadows the historical details of Boone’s life. Boone was the sixth of eleven children in a family of Quakers. His father, Squire Boone, had emigrated to Pennsylvania from the small town of Bradninch, England in 1713. His parents George and Mary Boone followed their son to Pennsylvania in 1717, and in 1720 built a log cabin at Boonecroft. In 1742, Boone’s parents were compelled to apologize publicly after their eldest child married a non-Quaker, while she was visibly pregnant. The story was so often told that it became so often part of his popular image that it was contested, but was told so often that the validity of this claim is contested. Boone’s skills as a hunter were given at the age of 12, when the young Boone was hunting in the woods with some other boys.
He calmly cocked his rifle and shot the heart of a predator through the heart as it leaped at him. He escaped and alerted Boonesborough that the Shawnee were planning an attack. He fought in the Battle of Blue Licks, a Shawnee victory over the Patriots, coming after the main fighting ended in October 1781. After the war, Boone worked as a surveyor and merchant, but fell deeply into debt through failed Kentucky land speculation. He briefly moved back to Virginia, in the newly formed Kanawha County, but returned to Kentucky. Once again frustrated with the legal problems resulting from his land claims, in 1799 Boone emigrate to eastern Missouri, where he spent most of his last two decades of his life. He died in 1820, and is buried in the town of Boonecroft, near present Reading, Pennsylvania, in a plot of land that is now part of the University of Kentucky. His wife, Sarah Morgan, was a Quaker, and the couple had a daughter, Sarah, who was born in 1731, and later had a son, Daniel, who died in childbirth in 1762. Boone had two sons, Daniel and Daniel Jr., and a daughter-in-law, Mary, who later died in a car accident. Boone died in 1792, and was buried in Louisville, Kentucky, near the site of his family’s log cabin. He is buried at Mount Vernon, in what is today known as the Boone National Cemetery.
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