Westward Expansion Biographies | Daniel Boone Biography

• Early life
• Exploring Kentucky
• Indian captivity
• Return to civilization
• Boone's last move
• Hero status
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Born November 2, 1734

Exeter Township, Berks County, near

present-day Reading, Pennsylvania

Died September 26, 1820

Near St. Charles, Missouri

Frontiersman

"Even in his own time the tale of Boone's role as the leader of colonists migrating through the Cumberland Gap into the Kentucky territories had begun to assume larger-than-life status. Boone came to be considered the consummate symbol of the American pioneer."

J. Gray Sweeney, in The...