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American pioneer and frontiersman (1734–1820)

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  • Autobiography of Colonel Daniel Boone
  • DVD for the Voice and Voice Therapy
  • Daniel Boone's Own Story and the Adventures of Daniel Boone
  • Daniel Boone : His Own Story
  • Pearson EText the Voice and Voice Therapy -- Access Card

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1934-06-01
2008 universal fire victimballadeasy listeningloungepoprock & roll

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55,934
Total plays
242,455

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Daniel Boone, (b. 31 July 1942, in Birmingham, as Peter Green) is a British pop musician who became a one-hit wonder with the single, Beautiful Sunday, in 1972.[1] Beautiful Sunday remains the biggest selling single by an international artist on the Japanese Oricon charts. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Daniel+Boone">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.
  • I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
  • I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.
  • Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
  • Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of 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.

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Key facts

Constituency
Kanawha County
Born
( 1734-11-02 ) November 2, 1734, Oley Valley , Pennsylvania , British America
Died
September 26, 1820 (1820-09-26) (aged 85), Defiance, Missouri , U.S.
Resting place
Frankfort Cemetery , Frankfort, Kentucky , or Old Bryan Farm Cemetery, Marthasville, Missouri
Spouse
Rebecca Bryan ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. August 14, 1756</span>"}]]}'>1756 ; died March 18, 1813</span>"}]]}'>1813 ) ​
Children
10, including Jemima , Daniel , and Nathan
Relatives
Squire Boone (brother) Levi Boone (nephew) Alphonso Boone (grandson)
Occupation
Hunter soldier politician surveyor merchant

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Daniel Boone (November 2 [O.S. October 22] 1734 – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. In 1775, Boone founded the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky, in the face of resistance from nearby Indian tribes. He founded Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. By the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 people had entered Kentucky by following the route marked by Boone.

He served as a militia officer during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), which in Kentucky was fought primarily between American settlers and British-allied Indians. In 1778, Boone was captured by the Shawnee and was, according to legend, adopted by the Shawnee Chief and given the name "Sheltowee", or Big Turtle. After months of living with the Shawnee, Boone escaped. He was elected to the first of his three terms in the Virginia General Assembly during the war and fought in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782, one of the last battles of the American Revolution. He worked as a surveyor and merchant after the war, but went deep into debt as a Kentucky land speculator. He resettled in Missouri in 1799, where he spent most of the last two decades of his life, frustrated with legal problems resulting from his land claims.

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