Birth of Daniel Boone

Posted in Adventure, Anniversary, Exploration, Legend on Friday, 22 October 2010

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Pioneer and folk legend Daniel Boone defends a Kentucky homestead against attack. Illustration by Severino Baraldi

2 November marks the anniversary of the birth of American frontiersman Daniel Boone. Born in Oley Valley, Pennsylvania, in 1734, Boone became a folk hero with his exploration of then wild Kentucky and for blazing the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains. Over 200,000 Europeans migrated to Kentucky along the trail over the next 25 years.

Boone fought in the American Revolution, served three terms with the Virginia General Assembly and became an iconic figure when his adventures were published in 1784. He died in 1820, aged 85.

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A portrait of Daniel Boone. Illustration by Severino Baraldi

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