Daniel boone bio
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Daniel Boone
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Who Was Daniel Boone?
Daniel Boone left home on a military expedition during the French and Indian War, and in Boone led an expedition that discovered a trail to the west through the Cumberland Gap. In , he settled an area he called Boonesborough in Kentucky, where he faced Indian resistance. Boone died in Femme Osage Creek, Missouri, in
Early Life
Boone was born on November 2, , in a log cabin in Exeter Township, near Reading, Pennsylvania. His father, Squire Boone, Sr., was a Quaker blacksmith and weaver who met his wife, Sarah Morgan, in Pennsylvania after he emigrated from England.
Boone, the couple's sixth child, received little formal education. Boone learned how to read and write from his mother, and his father taught him wilderness survival skills. Boone was given his first rifle when he was 12 years old. He quickly proved himself a talented woodsman and hunter, shooting his first bear when most children his age were too frightened. At age 15, Boo
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Daniel Boone
No name looms larger in the story of the early American West than Daniel Boone. A wanderer for most of his life, he is forever associated with the exploration of Kentucky. Boone’s exploits in exploring and hunting in the Bluegrass, as well as its defense during the American Revolution made him a legend in his own time.
Born on November 2, Daniel Boone grew up in Oley Township northwest of Philadelphia. As a young man, he spent many hours alone in the forest where he developed and refined the skills that one day would make him famous. At the age of fifteen, he left Pennsylvania with his family following a break with the Society of Friends (better known as the Quakers). Boone resided for about a year in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley before he finally settled along the Yadkin River in North Carolina.
Rather than take up a life of farming, Boone preferred to make his living as a marker or&
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Early Years
Boone was born on October 22, , near Reading, Pennsylvania, the son of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan Boone. Boone&#;s parents were Quakers, but following a dispute between Squire Boone and the Society of Friends, the family left Pennsylvania about the beginning of May and in October of that year settled near the Yadkin River in what is now Davie County, North Carolina. En rutt Daniel Boone made his first long trek as a professional hunter. With one companion he left the family&#;s camp in the Shenandoah Valley and spent several months hunting in the Blue Ridge Mountains and along the Roanoke River.
Boone served as a teamster on General Edward Braddock&#;s ill-fated expedition to Fort Duquesne in , after which he returned to the Yadkin Valley and on August 14, , married Rebecca Bryan, a member of a prominent local family. They settled near present-day Farmington, Davie County, North Carolina, and had six sons and four daughters. Early in Boone temporarily moved his fam