Boone, Daniel

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

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

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)

Daniel Boone Daniel Boone seems to have been the only one of these hunters to whom the wilderness especially appealed.

From The story of Kentucky by Eubank, Rice S.

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)