Brief history of daniel boone

(1734-1820)

Who Was Daniel Boone?

Daniel Boone left home on a military expedition during the French and Indian War, and in 1769 Boone led an expedition that discovered a trail to the west through the Cumberland Gap.

In 1775, he settled an area he called Boonesborough in Kentucky, where he faced Indian resistance. Boone died in Femme Osage Creek, Missouri, in 1820.

Early Life

Boone was born on November 2, 1734, in a log cabin in Exeter Township, near Reading, Pennsylvania.

His father, Squire Boone, Sr., was a Quaker blacksmith and weaver who met his wife, Sarah Morgan, in Pennsylvania after he emigrated from England.

Boone, the couple's sixth child, received little formal education.

Brief history of daniel boone national forest

Boone learned how to read and write from his mother, and his father taught him wilderness survival skills. Boone was given his first rifle when he was 12 years old. He quickly proved himself a talented woodsman and hunter, shooting his first bear when most children his age were too