Daniel Boone
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Discovery, Exploration
- Subcategories: Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements, Explorers, Frontier, Pioneers
- Curriculum: American Colonial History (1607-1775), American Revolutionary History (1776-1788), American Early National History (1789-1815)
Article abstract: In addition to opening the trans-Appalachian frontier, Boone became a legendary symbol of the early American frontier.
Early Life
Daniel Boone was born on a Berks County, Pennsylvania, farm on November 2, 1734, the sixth of eleven children. His father, Squire Boone, was the son of an English Quaker who came to Philadelphia in 1717; his mother, Sarah Morgan, was of Welsh ancestry. Young Boone received little, if any, formal schooling, but he learned to read and to write, although his spelling was erratic. His real interest was in the...
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