Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon (Classic Reprint): The First White Settler of the State of Kentucky - Couverture souple

Daniel Boon

 
9781331962960: Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon (Classic Reprint): The First White Settler of the State of Kentucky

Synopsis

Frontier life and the making of Kentucky come alive in this biography of Daniel Boon, a renowned hunter and early settler. This narrative follows his daring journeys, fierce battles, and quiet moments living in the wilderness that helped shape a young nation.


The text frames Boon’s experiences during frontier wars, his time in Kentucky and later Tennessee, and his enduring love of the wild. It also shares insights into frontier leadership, self-reliance, and the complex mix of danger and discovery on the edge of settlement.



  • Rugged frontier adventures, including battles and strategic moves against hostile threats

  • Detailed accounts of hunting, scouting, and living apart from crowded towns

  • Reflection on population growth and its impact on the wilderness Boon cherished

  • Character sketches that illuminate the mindset and values of early American settlers


Ideal for readers of early American frontier history and biographies of legendary explorers.

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Excerpt from Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon: The First White Settler of the State of Kentucky

It was on the first of May 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness, and left my family and peaceable habitation of the Yadkin river, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Money, and William Cool.

On the 7th of June, after travelling through a mountainous wilderness, in a western direction, we found ourselves on Red River, where John Finley had formerly been trading with the Indians, and, from the top of an eminence, saw with pleasure the beautiful level of Kentucky. For some time we had experienced the most uncomfortable weather. We now encamped, made a shelter to defend us from the inclement season, and began to hunt and reconnoitre the country. We found abundance of wild beasts in this vast forest... The buffaloes were more numerous than cattle on other settlements, browzing on the leaves of the cane, or cropping the herbage on those extensive plains. We saw hundreds in a drove; and the numbers about the salt springs were amazing. In the forest, the habitation of beasts of every American kind, we hunted with great success until December.

On the 22d of December, John Stuart and I had a pleasing ramble; but fortune changed the day at the close of it.

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