Person:Daniel Boone (1)

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• See biographies by J. Bakeless (1965), R. G. Thwaites (1963, repr. 1971), and R. E. McDowell (1972); The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer" by John Mack Faragher.

Daniel Boone, an engraving by T. Johnson based on a painting by Thomas Sully.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Daniel Boone, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
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   Daniel Boone (September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone became famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. Despite resistance from American Indians, for whom Kentucky was a traditional hunting ground, in 1775 Boone blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky. There 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 the route marked by Boone.

   Boone served as a militia officer during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), which, in Kentucky, was fought primarily between American settlers and British-allied American Indians. Boone was taken in by Shawnees in 1778 and adopted into the tribe, but he resigned and continued to help protect the Kentucky settlements. He was elected to the first of his three terms in the Virginia General Assembly during the war, and fought in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782, one of the last battles of the American Revolution. Boone worked as a surveyor and merchant after the war, but he went deep into debt as a Kentucky land speculator. Frustrated with legal problems resulting from his land claims, in 1799 Boone resettled in Missouri, where he spent most of the last two decades of his life.

   Boone remains an iconic, if imperfectly remembered, figure in American history. He was a legend in his own lifetime, especially after an account of his adventures was published in 1784, making him famous in America and Europe. After his death, Boone became the subject of many heroic tall tales and works of fiction. His adventures—real and legendary—helped create the archetypal frontier hero of American folklore. In American popular culture, Boone is remembered as one of the foremost early frontiersmen, even though mythology often overshadows the historical details of his life.
   

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2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Metcalf, Samuel L. Collection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives of Indian Warfare in the West. (Lexington, Kentucky, USA: William G. Hunt, 1821)
   1913.
3.   BOONE, DANIEL, in Daughters of the American Revolution. Genealogical Research System.

   Service Source: GWATHMEY, HIST REG OF VA IN THE REV, PP 76-7; KY IN RETROSPECT, P 157; COLLINS, HIST OF KY, VOL I, P 20
   Service Description: 1) ALSO LCOL, FAYETTE CO TROOPS;
   2) MEMBER GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1781; SHERIFF, 1782

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 109 , in Find A Grave.

   [In 1845 in a controversial move, the remains of Boone and his wife were relocated from Missouri to Kentucky. There is some controversy surrounding the final disposition of the Boones' remains. Some say Daniel and Rebecca's remains are still in Missouri, and that the wrong bodies were removed and re-buried. Others have demanded the return of the bodies to Missouri.]

5.   Filson, John. The Discovery, Settlement, and present State of Kentucke: and an essay toward the topography and natural history of that important country ; to which is added an appendix containing, first, the adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, one of the first settlers, comprehending every important occurrence in the political history of that province ; second, the minutes of the Piankashaw council, held at Post Saint Vincent's, April 15, 1784 ; third, an account of the Indian nations inhabiting within the limits of the thirteen United States, their manners and customs, and reflections on their origin ; fourth, the stages and distances between Philadelphia and the Falls of the Ohio, from Pittsburgh to Pensacola, and several other places - the whole illustrated by a new and accurate map of Kentucke and the country adjoining, drawn from actual surveys. (Wilmington: James Adams, 1784)
   1784.
6.   Spraker, Hazel Atterbury, and Jesse Proctor Crump. The Boone family: a genealogical history of the descendants of George and Mary Boone, who came to America in 1717; containing many unpublished bits of early Kentucky history; also a biographical sketch of Daniel Boone, the pioneer, by one of his descendants. (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Co., 1922)
   64-65, 1922.
7.   Rockenfield, Sarah Ridge Street. Our Boone families : Daniel Boone's kinfolks. (Evansville, Indiana: Whipporwill, 1987)
   397-404.

   [contains in depth details]

8. ↑ The Boone Society, Inc. - The First 5 Generations of the George Boone Family, 21 Aug 2008.

   (6) Daniel BOONE, b 22 Sept 1734 Exeter, Berks Co, PA d 26 Sept 1820 Marthasville, St Charles Co, MO m Aug 14, 1756 to Rebecca BRYAN b 9 Jan 1739 Frederick Co, VA d 18 March 1813 Marthasville, St Charles Co, MO where they both were originally buried and that grave is marked there. (There is the dispute of reburial to Kentucky of Daniel and Rebecca). DAR ID NO 35404 V36 p150 also 38294
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   [cos1776 Note of Caution: pos error - birth date does not match other sources.]

9. ↑ Source Needed.

   He was given this name when he was adopted by the Shawnee. Source needed. [Note: in source ^S3 Boone mentions that he was adopted but does not say by whom (some say Chief Blackfish) and does not give his given name, although the author fills that in at the unsourced footnotes. A direct source should be found if possible. user:cthrnvl ]

10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} Sheltowee Trace, in 100 Trails of the Big South Fork: Tennessee and Kentucky
    204.

    "While traveling through the remote woods of Kentucky in February 1778, Daniel Boone was captured by a band of Shawnees, who took him to one of their towns along the Ohio River. Boone escaped 4 months later, but during his stay, Chief Black Fish befriended him and gave Boone the name Sheltowee, meaning "Big Turtle." The Sheltowee Trace, named in Boone's honor, has an occasional blaze in the shape of a turtle, but most often a white diamond blaze."

11. ↑ Shel-Tow-Ee, Son of Blackfish, in Lofaro, Michael. Daniel Boone: An American Life. (University Press of Kentucky, Sep 26, 2003)
    92, 26 Sep 2003.

    "Blackfish and his wife treated Boone with kindness, the chief always addressing him as "my son," and as a brave, Daniel did not have to do any farming, as that was women's work in Shawnee culture."