Daniel Boone
Military Commander
1734 – 1820
Who was Daniel Boone?
Daniel Boone 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 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.
Boone was a militia officer during the Revolutionary War, which in Kentucky was fought primarily between the American settlers and the British-aided Native Americans. Boone was captured by Shawnee warriors in 1778, who after a while adopted him into their tribe. Later, he left the Indians and returned to Boonesborough to help defend the European settlements in Kentucky/Virginia.
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- Born
- Oct 22, 1734
Daniel Boone Homestead - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Rebecca Boone
(1756/08/14 - )
- Rebecca Boone
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Kentucky
- Missouri
- Died
- Sep 26, 1820
Daniel Boone House - Resting place
- Missouri
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on July 23, 2013
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