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Boone, Daniel
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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Boone, Daniel (1734–1820), born in Pennsylvania, moved to North Carolina, and from 1769 to 1771 made an extended exploration of Kentucky. As an agent of the Transylvania Company, he led a band of colonists along the
Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap to the site of Boonesborough, where a fort was erected in 1775. After the region was made a county of Virginia (1776), he held many local offices, and his activities in behalf of the settlement were interrupted only by a brief captivity (Feb.–June 1778) by Shawnees. When his improperly registered land tracts were lost by a series of ejectment suits, he moved to Point Pleasant (now West Virginia), and in 1798 or 1799 moved again to a tract granted him by the Spanish in the Femme Osage valley, Missouri. The legend of Boone as the discoverer of Kentucky and the greatest of frontiersmen was begun with the biography written by
John Filson and extended by Byron in the eighth canto of
Don Juan (1823), as well as by many laudatory references in contemporary literature and tall tales. Audubon, who met Boone in Missouri, retold one of his adventures in the
Ornithological Biography. He is a frequent figure in fiction, as in Churchill's
The Crossing, Elizabeth Madox Roberts's
The Great Meadow, and Caroline Gordon's
Green Centuries.
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Daniel Boone blazes the way west: this backwoodsman became a symbol of America's pioneering spirit. (American History Play).
Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic; 11/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; Daniel Boone grew up on America's frontier...have skinned, then leave. Daniel Boone: They think we're stealing...Boone talks to his wife. Daniel Boone: Rebecca, a lawyer...colony in Kentucky. Rebecca Boone: And? Daniel Boone: And...
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A BOONE BOOM.(Travel & Leisure)(Profile\Daniel Boone)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 3/5/2000; ; 700+ words
; The Daniel Boone home, nearly 200 years old, is large even by today's standards...hostile actions from Americans east of the Mississippi. One of Boone's sons, Daniel Morgan Boone, came first, handling details with the Spanish government...
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BOONE'S BURIAL SITE IS A MYSTERY THAT MAY NEVER BE SOLVED.(Travel & Leisure)(Profile\Daniel Boone)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 3/5/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Kentucky, a historian says. According to the Historic Daniel Boone Home, Boone is buried in a cemetery about 15 miles away, on...and was buried in the cemetery at Marthasville. Daniel Boone intended to be buried beside her. He died seven...
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LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY ADDS TO COLLECTION OF PROPERTY CONNECTED WITH DANIEL BOONE.(St. Charles County Post)(Profile\Lindenwood University Historical Building Purchases)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 6/14/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...own more property connected with Daniel Boone than any other institution in the...or to property near the Historic Daniel Boone Home. (Boonesfield Village is a commercial venture adjacent to the Boone Home.) The university owns about...
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My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan...returned there half an hour after Daniel Boone's return" (p. 69). Draper...as an illuminating recollection of Daniel Boone's life, or used to establish facts...
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DANIEL BOONE Series: Wilderness Road
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 1/9/2005; ; 700+ words
; Daniel Boone was a man, Yes a big man, With an eye...have been but a common man." Who was Daniel Boone? "He's become folklore and legend...As told in Faragher's 1992 book "Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American...
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TRYING TO SALVAGE THE BOONE LEGACY: THE HISTORIC BOONE SETTLEMENT IN ST. CHARLES COUNTY HAS ALL BUT VANISHED, AND DEVELOPERS ARE CLOSING IN.(Everyday Magazine)(Profile\Daniel Boone\The St. Charles County Boone Settlement Area\)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 10/27/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...decided the signature couldn't be Daniel Boone's. So, in 1968, the tree...Kamper's newsletters for the Daniel Boone and Frontier Families Research...Wissmann farm offers a fine view of Daniel Boone's 850-acre Spanish land grant...
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For sale: Daniel Boone's grave site But the famed pioneer's remains might -- or might not -- have been removed.(Metro)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 5/8/2005; 700+ words
; ...published 5/10/2005 - The pioneer Daniel Boone was born in Berks County, Pa...1735 in Bucks County, Pa., Daniel Boone didn't arrive in Missouri until...moved to Missouri with them. Daniel and Rebecca Boone took in James' six motherless...
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NEW DANIEL BOONE TREE MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED IN SOUTH ST. CHARLES COUNTY.(St. Charles County Post)(Profile\Daniel Boone Judgment Tree Memorial)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...resistance, to dedicate the new Daniel Boone Judgment Tree Memorial on Oct...said. Instead, people followed Daniel Boone to the frontier along trails he...Carolina almost through Missouri. Boone trails became the first American...
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Kentucky Road Loses Daniel Boone's Name
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/6/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...eastern Kentucky mountains that Daniel Boone helped carve out for settlement...especially for tourism. But taking Daniel Boone's name off that highway is going...decision. ___ On the Net: Daniel Boone National Forest: http://www...
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Boone, Daniel
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
BOONE, DANIEL Few people reach legendary...their own lifetime. Daniel Boone (1734 – 1820...the British troops fled. Boone returned home to marry neighbor...Rebecca had ten children with Daniel and followed him through...
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Boone, Daniel (1734-1820)
Book article from: American Eras
Daniel Boone (1734-1820) Pioneer Birth of a Legend...Filson published The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone; the next year another Boone biography...Creek, Missouri. John Mack Faragher, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American...
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Daniel Boone as an Icon
Book article from: American Eras
Daniel Boone as an Icon Many Boones. One of the most...civilization. John Peck ’ s Life of Daniel Boone (1847), on the other hand, appearing...The full-length portrait, Col. Daniel Boone (1820), placed the aged Boone in a...
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Daniel Boone
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Daniel Boone An American frontiersman and explorer, Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was the greatest woodsman...confirmed a part of his Spanish grant. Daniel Boone's greatest satisfaction was neither...
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Daniel Boone Court-Martial: 1778
Book article from: Great American Trials
Daniel Boone Court-Martial: 1778 Defendant: Daniel Boone Crime Charged: Treason Chief Defense Lawyer: No record...whitewash the reputation of its early popular heroes. Daniel Boone is one of America's great frontier legends, remembered...
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