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Boone, Daniel

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  1. An American frontier settler of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, best known for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky.


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Boone, Daniel, 215-221, 222, 223, 225, 226, 234, 258.

From American Men of Action by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Boone, Daniel, 28, 218 Boston: massacre, 91 evacuation, 116 port bill, 94 Bowdoin, Governor, 142 Boxer rebellion, 499 Brandywine, 129 Breckinridge, J.C.,

From History of the United States by Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin)

Boone, Daniel, on Watauga River,413; effort to colonize Kentucky, 416; opens "Wilderness Road," 417.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

One day, not long after the arrival of Squire Boone, Daniel Boone, with his companion Stewart, was a long distance from the camp, hunting.

From Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Boone, Daniel, hunter and deputy surveyor; in Virginia Legislature; trader; creed; keeps faith with Indians.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Roosevelt, Theodore