Life & Times of Col. Daniel Boone

Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer

The subject of the following biography, the celebrated Colonel Daniel Boone, is one of the most remarkable men which this country has produced. His character is marked with originality, and his actions were important and influential in one of the most interesting periods of our historythat of the early settlement of Kentucky. Boone is generally acknowledged as the founder of that State. His having explored it alone to a considerable extent; his leading the earliest bands of settlers; his founding Boonesborough, the nucleus of the future State; his having defended this and other stations successfully against the attacks of the Indians; and the prominent part which he took in military affairs at this period of distress and peril, certainly render his claims to the distinguished honor of founding Kentucky very strong. But Boone, personally, reaped very little benefit from his patriotic and disinterested exertions. The lands which he had first cultivated and defended, were taken from him by the chicanery of the law; other lands granted to him by the Spanish government were lost by his inattention to legal forms; and in his old age he was without an acre of land which he could call his own. A few years before his death a small tract, such as any other settler in Missouri was entitled to, was granted him by Congress. But he has left to his numerous posterity a nobler inheritancethat of an imperishable fame in the annals of his country! The family of Daniel BooneHis grandfather emigrates to America, and settles in Bucks County, PennsylvaniaFamily of Daniel Boone's fatherAccount of Exeter, the birth-place of BooneBirth of Daniel BooneReligion of his familyBoone's boyhoodGoes to schoolAnecdoteSummary termination of his schooling. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 14023
Author: Hartley, Cecil B.
Release Date: Nov 11, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English