Fascinating recount of a critical character in the development of American history.
The author does a nice job interweaving the exploits of Boone in with other comtemporary historical happenings.
Daniel Boone experiences real life heart throbbing adventure and was critical to paving the way for Westward expansion.
Daniel Boone October 22 , 1734 September 26, 1820 was an American pioneer, explorer and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the settled part of Thirteen Colonies This region legally belonged to both the Commonwealth of Virginia and to the American Indian Tribes. Despite some resistance from American Indian tribes such as the Shawnee, in 1775 Boone blazed his Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains from North Carolina and Tennessee into Kentucky. There he founded the village of Boonesborough, Kentucky, one of the first Englishspeaking settlements west of the Appalachians. Before the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 European people migrated to KentuckyVirginia by following the route marked by Boone.