Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boonewas an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then part of Virginia, but on the other side of the mountains from the settled areas. As a young adult, Boone supplemented his farm income by hunting and trapping game, and selling their pelts in the fur market. Through this...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth2 November 1734
CityBirdsboro, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
I'm going now. My time has come.
No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.
Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.
Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.
The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.
I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.