American pioneer and frontiersman (1734–1820)
Blazed the Wilderness Road through Kentucky in 1775 and basically opened the American frontier to settlement. Founded Boonesborough and became the template for every rugged frontiersman myth that followed.
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. In 1775, Boone founded the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky, in the face of resistance from Native Americans. He founded Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. By the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 people had entered Kentucky by following th…
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