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Pat Boone Pat Boone
Pat BooneSinger One of the undisputed icons of the 1950s, Pat Boone is one of rock 'n' roll's least appreciated founding fathers. Like Elvis Presley, Boone was a humble country boy aspiring to croon his way to pop chart fame; both made their entrée through the budding R&B-based rock 'n' roll... Read more
Boone Boone
Boone 1 City (1990 pop. 25,186), seat of Boone co., central Iowa, on the Des Moines River; inc. 1865. It is a railroad and industrial center with plants making machinery, steel fabrications, and plastic signs. It was laid out (1865) by the railroad, which built a long, high double-track bridge... Read more
John Filson John Filson
John Filson c.1753-1788, Kentucky pioneer, b. Chester co., Pa. In 1783 he acquired land in Kentucky, taught school, and wrote Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke (1784). This first history, or traveler's description, of the state contained a very good map that was also published... Read more
Timothy Flint Timothy Flint
Timothy Flint 1780-1840, American author, b. North Reading, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1800, and entered the ministry. As a missionary he traveled up and down the Mississippi valley from 1815 until 1825 and recorded in Recollections of the Last Ten Years (1826) the frontier life he experienced. He... Read more
Daniel Boone Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone 1734-1820, American frontiersman, b. Oley (now Exeter) township, near Reading, Pa. The Boones, English Quakers, left Pennsylvania in 1750 and settled (1751 or 1752) in the Yadkin valley of North Carolina. Daniel served as a wagoner in Braddock's ill-fated expedition (1755) against... Read more
Frankfort Frankfort
Frankfort city (1990 pop. 25,968), state capital and seat of Franklin co., N central Ky., on both sides of the Kentucky River, in the heart of the bluegrass country; inc. 1796. It is the trade and shipping center for an area yielding tobacco, livestock, and limestone. Among its manufacturers are... Read more
Lorenzino de Medici Lorenzino de Medici
Lorenzino de' Medici , 1515-47, member of the cadet branch of the Medici family. A boon companion of Alessandro de' Medici , he secretly plotted the duke's murder—possibly out of republican convictions. With a hired assassin, he stabbed Alessandro to death (1537) and fled to Venice, where he... Read more
Boonesboro Boonesboro
Boonesboro , former settlement, central Ky., on the Kentucky River. It was named for Daniel Boone , who in 1775 built a small fort there under orders from the Transylvania Company , organized by the American colonizer Richard Henderson . The seat of the government of Transylvania for several... Read more
Christopher Gist Christopher Gist
Gist, Christopher (c.1706–59), frontiersman in the employ of the Ohio Company, was the first white man to explore southern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky, preceding Boone by 18 years. He accompanied Washington on a journey to warn the French out of the Ohio Valley (1753–54), and at... Read more

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