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Daniel Boone
Born in Pennsylvania in 1734, Daniel Boone moved to North Carolina as a young man with his wife, Rebecca. In the winter, when it was too cold to farm, he began crossing the mountains to hunt, the first time in 1769. In 1775, Boone and a company of men employed by a land speculator cut a road through the Cumberland Gap to a site on the Kentucky River, where they established Boonesborough. Despite Indian resistance, the trickle of settlers grew. By 1800, nearly three hundred thousand people had traveled the Wilderness Road into Kentucky.
A highly respected frontiersman, Boone served in the Virginia legislature and lived to the age of 86. |