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Boone, Daniel
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...Daniel Boone, 1734–1820, American frontiersman...in the Yadkin valley of North Carolina. Daniel served as a wagoner in Braddock's ill...settlers, and later in the same season Boone guided a second party, including his family......
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Beard, Daniel Carter
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...Daniel Carter Beard, 1850–1941, American illustrator and naturalist, b...articles on woodcraft and nature study, Beard wrote Boy Pioneers and Sons of Daniel Boone (1909), American Boys' Book of Wild Animals (1921), and Wisdom of......
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Filson, John
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......was an appendix, "The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon," which purported to be Daniel Boone's autobiography. Filson obviously wrote...the first person, material he garnered from Daniel Boone, as the studied literary style of the alleged......
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Frankfort
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......thermostats. Thoroughbred horses are also raised there. Daniel Boone reached the site in 1770. The city was organized (1786...and the old cemetery with the graves of Rebecca and Daniel Boone. Kentucky State Univ. is there....
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Transylvania Company
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......and Cumberland rivers. Henderson had already dispatched Daniel Boone to lead the way to the Kentucky River and, with additional settlers, soon followed Boone over his Wilderness Road to Boonesboro, the first settlement......
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Flint, Timothy
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......Berrian (1826) and George Mason, the Young Backwoodsman (1829). His vivid Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone (1833) did much to develop the Boone legend. See biography by J. E. Kirkpatrick (1911, repr. 1968); study by J. K. Folsom......
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Kenton, Simon
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......American attacks; in one of these encounters he saved Daniel Boone's life. During the American Revolution he accompanied...on his expedition to Kaskaskia and Vincennes and helped Boone in the raid on Chillicothe. He was later captured by......
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Wilderness Road
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......to 1840, blazed in 1775 by the American frontiersman Daniel Boone and an advance party of the Transylvania Company. Feeders...converged at Fort Chiswell in the Shenandoah valley. Boone's road ran southwest from there through the valley......
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Boy Scouts
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......1910 in the United States, where its appearance was connected with earlier organizations—the Sons of Daniel Boone, organized by Daniel Carter Beard, and the Woodcraft Indians, organized by Ernest Thompson Seton. In the United States, James......
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Boonesboro
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...Boonesboro (bōōnz´bərə, –bûrō), former settlement, central Ky., on the Kentucky River. It was named for Daniel Boone, who in 1775 built a small fort there under orders from the Transylvania Company, organized by the American colonizer Richard......