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Daniel Boone, who was born in Pennsylvania on November 2, 1734 to a family of Quakers, is often called the most famous pioneer and frontier hero there ever was. When he was young, he never had a chance to go to school and learn to read or write. By 1750, when he was 16 his family moved to North Carolina, where Daniel spent most of his time hunting. When he was 23, he got married, and eventually had 10 kids. Daniel Boone always respected Indians, but nonetheless, he was captured four times by them. In 1769, he went with John Finley and his brother to Kentucky. It had always been his dream to go there. Contrary to some popular belief, he never wore a coonskin cap, and when he went to Kentucky, he wore a black felt cap. Daniel Boone hunted and explored in Kentucky for two years. He was captured and released by Indians in Kentucky, but only for a brief period of time. He then built a cabin in Kentucky, and moved his family there. After Boone was captured again, and then accepted as a member of the Indian community, he pretended that he loved Indian life, but he still waited for just the perfect time to escape. One day, the Indians decided to attack the fort near where he lived. He escaped to warn his people. The Indians used very clever warfare, but the weather was against them and they withdrew. Daniel Boone was rich beyond belief, and he owned over 100,000 acres of land, but lawyers sued him and took his land, because he had not acquired the legal right to the land. Daniel Boone always wanted to be in areas that were basically unpopulated, so in 1799, he moved west again. When he was so old that he could not even aim straight, he set traps to catch animals. He died on September 26, 1820. |
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