American pioneer and frontiersman (1734–1820)
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He cut a road through the Cumberland Gap when Kentucky was still Indian country, and 200,000 settlers followed. The Shawnee captured him, adopted him, called him Big Turtle — then he slipped away and kept carving wilderness into something like a state.
Daniel Boone was born November 2, 1734, and spent his early years learning the edges of the Thirteen Colonies before they had edges at all. In 1775 he blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky and founded Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachians. During the Revolutionary War he served as a militia officer fighting British-allied tribes; in 1778 the Shawnee captured him and their chief adopted him as "Sheltowee" — Big Turtle — but after months he escaped and returned to the struggle. He was elected three times to the Virgini…
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
Situated, many hundred miles from our families in the howling wilderness, I believe few would have equally enjoyed the happiness we experienced.
I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.
Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy.
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