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Boone Non-Davie LocationsOr Daniel Boone ,Rebecca Bryan b. 5 Oth v -Wedding ,anniversary D9N18L 800N8 Wd00N TAAIN,=,,' aniel Boone is America's pioneer hero. He lived on the frontier of a westward -moving country from a time when the Colonial populace pledged its allegiance to the British Crown, through the American Revolution, and into the rise of Andrew Jackson, who championed a democracy of the common man. Boone lived a remarkable 86 years ... (continued inside) 1 V-4 (continued from front) from 1734 to 1820, and in that time covered on foot and horseback an expanse of American wilderness that surprises most people today. Boone's travels carried him from Pennsylvania to Missouri and from Michigan to Florida, across land that now lies in eleven states. Some even claim he ventured as far west as Yellowstone. Though today Daniel Boone is most readily associated with Kentucky, he lived in North Carolina for 21 years from ages 18 to 39. In those important years, he mastered his craft as an expert woodsman hunted game for market served as a wagoner for the British Army, fought Indians and outlaws, married, farmed, helped raise his chil- dren, and rode off on a whim to explore Florida. Daniel Boone cher- ished North Carolina as home and left it only when the call of a less crowd- ed and game -rich frontier beckoned him west across the Cumberland Gap. Moving south along the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road from their home in Exeter, Pennsylvania, the Squire Boone family arrived in North Carolina in 1752 after living two years in Virginia. Squire Boone had received a land warrant from Lord Granville in 1750 for 640 acres in the Forks of the Yadkin. Later be bought another square -mile tract along Bear Creek. Tradition says the Boone family lived for awhile, or perhaps only when fish- ing near the mouth of Dutchman's Creek, on a bluff overlooking the Yadkin River from the east bank. The / Historic Bethabara Park L141*11 it Place sticker here 4 bluff contained a long cave with a small opening where the Booties may have taken refuge on occasion, or as legend says, when Daniel Boone was escaping marauding Indians. During the early 1750s, the Squire Boone family including Daniel lived at both the Dutchman's Creek and Bear Creek tracts where Squire Boone built cabins and perhaps ran an inn for which he was licensed. Throughout the Forks of the Yadkin, Daniel became known as an expert hunter, shooting 99 bear in one season on Bear Creek alone and 30 deer between one sunrise and sunset. In Salisbury, where Boone traded produce for Zanier 1n ,North Horn in the Wilkes County West Heritage Museum Whippoorwill Academy and Village IN shot and powder, sold his hides, and attended court, his marks- manship won him many shooting contests and both the respect and sometimes the ire of his competitors. Mocksville & Davie County 150th � j L Place sticker here In June 1755, at 20 years of age, Daniel rode off with soldiers from North Carolina and served as a civilian wagoner under British Major General Edward Braddock in his campaign to retake Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) from the French. Boone escaped a murderous ambush, infamously known there- after as Braddock's Defeat, and (continued on page 4) Z5orh Anntversary of rhe ,ii-farriage ofDanrel Boone and Rebecca Bryan 250th Boone Anniversary L Em+nr J th nn Carolina pl re st !h5e Historic Bethabara Park 40 Mocksville :ort Dobbs ate Historic Site E Old Salem • Boone's Cave Park Salisbury Celebrations May 13, Ferguson, Whippoorwill Academy and Village. Daniel Boone Day, noon - 5:30pm. Free May 13, Salisbury, 1766 Old Stone House. Daniel Boone Day 10:00am-4:00pm, $$ May 20, Salisbury, Rowan County Public Library, Henderson Law Office. Daniel Boone Prepares for a Long Hunt. Free May 27, Salisbury, Downtown Salisbury, Daniel Boone Departs for the Wilderness. Free June 10, Wilkesboro, Wilkes County Heritage Museum, Old Wilkes Heritage Festival. I1:00am - 10:30pm. Free. June 16 -August 13, Boone, Horn in the West, 55th season, nightly performances except Monday. $$ July 2, Winston-Salem, Historic Bethabara Park, Independence Day Celebration, "Detached British Army Field Hospital" interpreting 18th century medical care. 1:30 - 4:30. Free July 8, Boone, Hickory Ridge Homestead at Horn in the West, frontier skills performed by interpreters among historic buildings August 12-13, Statesville, Fort Dobbs State Historic Site, 18th century military garrison. August 17, Winston-Salem, Old Salem, Lecture on Daniel Boone by celebrated North Carolina author and Cornell 7-7, University English professor Robert Morgan. 7:00pm. $$ August 18, Mocksville, Brock Performing Arts Center, Wedding Frolic, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Free August 19, Mocksville, Daniel Boone Family Festival. 9:30am - 6:00pm. Free See www.danielboonefootsteps.com for more information about each site and event. Collect all the stickers by visiting each site anytime during the 2006 celebrations. Event times are subject to change. May 6, Salisbury, Rowan County Public Library. Presentation by author of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone. 2:00pm. Free August 18-19, Mocksville, Brock Performing Arts Center, original musical, Sojourner's Song: A Tale about Daniel and Rebecca Boone, 7:30 pm. $$ September 23, Historic Bethabara Park, Apple Festival, "Detached British Army Field Hospital" interpreting 18th century medical care. 10:30 - 4:30. Free October 7-8, Statesville, Fort Dobbs State Historic Site, 18th Century Trade Faire. $$ May 6-7, Statesville, Fort Dobbs State Historic Site. October 14-15, Boone's Cave Park, A Visit with the Boones and 18th century military garrison. Their Neighbors, a living -history event with first -person inter- pretation of the settlement of the Yadkin Valley backcountry. Reenactor photographs on cover taken at Wilderness Road State Park, �a Uz b] ;� i jI; Lee County. W uginia and at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, i�lW�Mo&sy'1{e , October 2004. Thanks to all for exhibiting their finely honed interpretive skills. NC forks of the Vadkm and Upper t,Jadkln 17alley. JUorth Carolina - 2006 Copyright 2006 - Randell Jones returned to North Carolina. In August, he took his brother, Israel, ill with con- sumption (tuberculosis) to see the only doctor around, the Moravian physician at Bethabara. The Moravians received him but recorded they were unable to cure Israel, who died in the spring. Upon Israel's death in 1756, Daniel became the guardian for the two Horn in the \ West, Boone 2501-1 ❑'rl.foer_4runrrram Place nicker here orphaned sons, his nephews. During the summer, Daniel, then 21, courted Rebecca Bryan, 17, Salisbury & whom he had met earlier at a wedding Rowan County N frolic. They married on August 14, 1756 at the Bear Creek cabin. Squire Boone, a justice of the peace, stood in the cabin's doorway and performed the cer- emony before a company of family and witnesses. The newlyweds built a homestead at the forks of Sugartree Creek, where they lived for 10 years. Two sons, James and Israel were born there. When the Cherokee War made living in the Carolina piedmont dangerous, Daniel moved his family to Culpeper, Virginia for a time, but he returned to the Forks of the Yadkin after the birth of two daughters, Susannah and Jemima. Squire Boone died in January 1765 and was buried at the non- denominational Joppa Church. (Daniel's mother, Sarah, was buried there as well in 1777.) In the fall of 1765, Daniel explored Florida with his brother-in-law John Stuart, but Daniel could not convince Rebecca to move there. So, in 1766, the Boones moved to the Upper Yadkin Valley and built cabins at Holman's Ford, Beaver Creek and on the Yadkin River. From there Daniel continued to hunt in the western wilderness, sometimes taking his young sons along. In 1769, Daniel Boone and four others rode west with John Finley, an old Indian trader, to find the overland route into Kanta-Ke through the Cumberland Gap. Some believe Boone was scouting land on behalf of Judge Richard Henderson, who from his bench in Salisbury and Hillsborough, may have helped finance Boone's first excursion into Kentucky. Boone was gone from North Carolina for two years during his first Kentucky expedition, returning to his family in spring 1771. Daniel Boone bid farewell to his mother, friends and extended family living in the Upper Yadkin Valley in 1773. He left North Carolina to seek a new home on the Kentucky frontier. His plans were cut short by tragedy along the trail, the murder of his first born, James, soon after the Learn more about Daniel Boon's life and adventures ... ... in North Carolina and all across the eastern United States from Pennsylvania to Missouri and Michigan to Florida. the Footsteps of Daniel Boone shares the life tory of America's pioneer hero by taking you to 85 sites spread across 11 states where he is corn- m memorated with markers, plaques, monuments, historic homes, and replica forts. The 244 - page 1 book tells the stories of his adventures that unfolded in each location. The companion DVD, trek began. Though the Boones delayed their venture into Kentucky for two years, they did not return to North Carolina. That episode of Daniel Boone's life was completed. New adventures in a new frontier were about to unfold. The legend of Daniel Boo a continued to grow. tc, riNe uNC�'war) On the Trail of Daniel Boone, shows you from the comfort of your own home what you would see if you traveled to all these sites today, plus WF photographs of reenactors, too. This 80 -minute, interactive program with music and narration includes over 800 color images. Order your autographed copy today. Send check payable to Randall Jones to Book only = $14.95 Daniel Boone Footsteps plus $3.00 shippingBook + DVD = $29.95 1959 N. Peace Haven Rd., #105 DVD only = $17.95 (NC residents add $1.26 plus $3.50 shipping Winston-Salem, NC 27106 plus $2.00 shipping sales tax) (NC residents add $2.35 NC tax) (NC residents add $1.40 NC tax ) Qaaae o(,`.Daniel Awas - Kenlucko *aaemotl Pion MONUMENT AND GRAVE OF DANIEL BOONE KENTUCKY'S FOREMOST PIONEER FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY Located in Frankfort cemetery, high above the palisades of the Kentucky River, Is the grave and monument of Daniel Boone and his wife, Rebecca. Daniel Boone started his exploration of Kentucky in 1769 and crossed the Kentucky River at Frankfort, in 1770. Many travelers through Kentucky, pay homage to this man who came fust to appre. ciate the wealth of beauty which Is Kentucky. COLOR PxaTo ai BRaCR Pt.FCE STBaP NERE e: xuoa POST CARD DANIEL BOONE HOME Defiance, Missouri The drawing room reflects the simple elegance of the Boone Mansion. Hand-hewn ceiling beams and carved walnut mantel are examples of Boone's exacting craftsmanship. Phmo by An Grossmann ® 1979 post card Pub. by An Grossmann Arthiranural Phumgraphy, St. Louis, Mo. 696470 d p 1-1 U O i O L CD U O Q a rs a ci e moo Um c t N'm a a ar�`m a Eq"a c 'o mtmE O Zm-.65 o 0 00 E u E��E O m� om�om �m mq G%G OC mCOdG W_a4R_. nO�m6 Z0m V`n�ON 0=O ym00" W LctmC 9 e m ncmet ma of rxxrr mo Defiance, Missouri Daniel Boone built this mansion of local. blue limestone with walls two -end -a -half feet thick, and hand-hewn walnut ceiling beams. It was here that he died in 1820. The home is open all year-round, maintained by small admission charge. post card Photo by An Grossmann ® 1979 Geyer Guides. Inc, 12015 Manchester Road, St. Louis. Mo. 63131 584830 dp—, }:.n. �J near uenanee, Missouri HereDaniel Boone Home Is open to e spent the .last 20 years of hislife. m 3 s` Photo by Walker-Mlssuuri Resources 31887-8 L MP RE Postcard JUDGEMENT TREE, DANIEL BOONE HOME Highway F Defiance, Missouri Daniel Boone held court under this tree both civil and Military cases. This tree over 300 years old died from the Dutch Elm Disease In 1972 It is the intentHomens of file topreserve management Historicalh nlel B oons Tree many years to come. A40477. R. 3leigemler Photo Post Card Daniel Uoone's Cabin (not standing) "Mouth of Beaver" fgrguson, N. C. DAVIE CO. PuaW UgRARy MOCKSW IF. mp ACBMI ICAL 'WUXU (30uwzi erisin,i Dm wd ink dnwime, by Edith Fmzv Carte Ferivaox4 N. C. by JACK KENNEDY HODGKIN )[net eight foot oil paintin of Daniel Boone mrou9 aState f Palk Mu eurn. He was 1510' ghed 165 pounds. r Y post card 25347-D DANIEL BOONE HOMESTEAD: Site of the birth. place of the American frontiersman, November 2, 1734. This Iota 18th century hoose octopi., former site of the Boone family log house. The Homestead, anmmtsarea by me PeraM.aoa Haartot and Hareem aommnemu. he lonad ors U.S. Route ev. aaumsast of Reading. rear Rvaebom. Pennsylvania. c,i,, oxine sr wail.... wn" moan PLACE STAMP HERE POST CARD Address DANIEL BOONE HOME, DEFIANCE, MO. DANIEL AND REBECCA'S LITTLE KITCHEN This little southwest room was the sitting room, dining room, and kitchen for Rebecca and Daniel Boone when the wane house was completed in 1810. The sideboard was We for Daniel Boone from his favorite walnut tree. Tho folding rocker belonged to Daniel Boone, and was passed down to Is grand-daughterDelinda Hays.. The antique drop-leaf walnut table is set with English ironstone. Art Grossmann,fs olo f IC-OLOURPICCTTURF 1090N, x.�U. %ae P86757 POST CARD DANIEL BOONS GRAVE For years hand made stones marked the graves of Daniel and his wife Rebecka. A group of Kentuck- ians claim Boone's remains were relmorred in Kentucky, disputed by Boone's descendants. This monument, erected by Daughters of American Revolution, pays tribute to the great hero. Post Card tos7ozs-c 1n 1845, the graves of Rebecca and Daniel Boone were mored from Missouri to Frankfort Cemetery in Kentucky. Trials of Rebecca Boone Although he helped settle Kentucky, Daniel Boone and his wife, Rebecca, lived for a while in what is now West Virginia before they wandered into Missouri (then Spanish territory). There they made their last home—Rebecca died in 1813, Daniel in 1820. Some 25 years later, Kentucky decided it was time they came home. After a large state funeral, Daniel and Rebecca were buried on a knoll high above Frankfort. Today, you can see the monument over their graves in Frankfort Cemetery. Fact and fancy have immortalized Boone, but what of Re- becca? They were neighbors as youngsters in North Carolina, and Rebecca Bryan, even at 17, must have realized she was marrying a restless man. She would bear him 10 children and would follow him into what is now three states, living many of those years in the hostile wilderness of Kentucky, where Boone founded Boonesborough in 1775. With a husband who often yearned for the solitude of wilderness, Rebecca spent many times alone. Boone would clamp on the wide -brimmed hat, which he preferred over a coonskin cap, and walk into the woods. Months on end, she would not know whether he was lost, sick, or even alive. Once Boone was captured by the Shawnees, and all Rebecca could do was wait. He escaped, but they did lose two of their children to Indians. The oldest, James, died in a Shawnee ambush in 1773. He was only 16. Israel, second oldest, also died by Indian hands in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782. "They carried one dead son in their arms coming into Kentucky and another one coming out," says George Chinn of the Kentucky Historical Society. "You might say they paid dearly for their Kentucky experience." Nathan, their youngest child, picked out the site for his parents' Kentucky burial. It was a spot his father had seen "My father told me it was the most beautiful view he had ever seen," Nathan said at the time. Rebecca probably would have thought it was lovely, too. SculileY��iving'- HOWELL BOONE Boone Farm Road Route 1 Box 365A Mocksville,NC 27028 TEL: (704) 4.92-5307 28 February 1985 Dear Friends: The weather is warming up, and it is now possible to enjoy re -tracing "The Daniel Boone Trail". I enclose roadmaps with the auto -routes indicated that most closely follow the route(s) of Daniel Boone from the North Carolina Piedmont to Boonesborough. In 1773, Rebecca [Bryan] Boone and the children were living in a cabin on Stony Fork Creek near Ferguson, Wilkes County, North Carolina; it was from this "Yadkin" home that the Boones departed in Daniel's first attempt to settle Kentucky. There is nowno trace of the cabin at Stony Fork Creek. Daniel proceeded from there to Castle's Woods, Virginia and discussed a joint venture into Kentucky with Captain William Russell (described as "enthralled" by Daniel's description of Kentucky). Daniel and party then proceeded to a spot about 7 miles from the heart of the Cumberland Gap when on 10 October 1773 Shawnee Indians discovered a group of youths detached from the main party and camped along then Walden's now Indian Creek in present-day Lee County, Virginia. Of the eight youths only two escaped alive, Isaac Crabtree, and a Russell slave named Adam. James Boone, Daniel's 16 year old son, and Henry Russell, son of Captain Russell were wounded, captured tortured and murdered. No one in the main party except Daniel wanted to continue on into Kentucky. Daniel was forced m to end his first attempt to settle Kentucky. He settled his family in a cabin in the Castle's Woods area, where they re- _ mained until the summer of 1775, when he guided them to Boones= borough. After his family was installed in the cabin at Castle's 0 Woods, Daniel was involved in strengthening settler's defences p against the Indians, informing -warning hunters and surveyors of the Indian danger, AND "working" for Squire/Judge/Colonel Henderson and the Transylvania Company. I see him as "in the 2 saddle" most of the time from the winter of 1773-4 until the Spring of 1775.... carrying messages back and forth between Henderson in Salisbury and the Indians who were "willing to sell" Kentucky and part of Tennessee. Daniel is present at Sycamore Shoals ( present-day Eliz- abethton, Tennessee ) at the negotiations between Henderson and the Indians, but departs for the Long Island in the Holston River (present-day Kingsport, Tennessee) and his road cutters as soon as he is sure that the sale will go through. He and his road cutters are blazing the trail as the documents are being signed. Daniel's road cutting is uneventful until they are about a dozen files from the site he has chosen for the permanent settlement. Having carelessly organized a camp, without adequate guards etc, the road cutters are surprised by a band of Indians. William Twitty and Felix Walker are wounded, before the Indians were driven off. Both men were so badly wounded that they could not be moved. Daniel and his men then "fortify" themselves with a crude log defense; Twitty dies and is buried there. The site is now known as "Twitty's Fort". When Felix Walker is able to be moved the road cutters then proceed to the Kentucky River, where they begin the erection of a fort. JUST AS INTERESTING is the saga of Richard Henderson, and perhaps you should re -trace the route of Henderson and his supplies, which made possible the establishment of a PERMANENT settlement at Boonesborough. Henderson departed Sycamore Shoals with a wagon train, -n intending to bring the many supplies he had acquired to the z Fort Daniel was to build along the Kentucky River. Without earth/tree movers the trail marked/blazed by Daniel was not c wide enough or cleared enough for Henderson's wagons, which o U had to be abandoned (Salt Lick, Kentucky). Henderson was too dictatorial for the frontier folk, and at Hazel Patch, some o of his men and his supplies just walked away from him. When he got to "Boonesborough" he saw clearly that the site Daniel R3 had chosen was in the flood plain of the Kentucky River: He forced Daniel and his men to relocate the fort at a better site. Squire/Judge/Colonel Henderson was used to giving orders and used to having his orders obeyed; but away from Salisbury, his courtroom and obedient men, he was out of his element. He was chasten by this experience; he described the men of Boonesborough as " a set of scoundrels who scarcely believe in God or fear the devil". Daniel Boone has been described as a "Master of the Wil- derness"; Henderson was not. While Daniel had been pursing wild game, Judge Henderson had been pursuing the law. The shock of the wilderness and the sort of men who flourished in such an enviroinment must have marked Henderson for the rest of his life. And, as you know, Henderson's great gamble failed. The Transylvania Company "purchase" of over 20 million acres of Kentucky and Tennessee was declared null and void, both by the Royal Government and the Revolutionary goverments of the states of Virginia and North Carolina. Certainly the story of the Transylvania Company is more "complicated" than the simple story of Daniel and his fearless roadcutters, but in our present era of "greenmailers" like T. Boone Pickens the American public would understand the ins and outs of this fantastic land grab by Henderson and his associates? Do make this trip, and do call me if you need more details as to the route. Pressed for time, one can take the super- higway from the Cumberland Gap to Richmond, Kentucky and then get on the two-lane black top that "follows" Daniel's origi* route to the fort site. With all good wishes, Davie Count; Public Ubrdfy Mocksville, NG .3 1111411 i, . v.111111 Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky by Theodore Roosevelt Daniel Boone American Pioneer and Trailblazer 1734-1820 "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " —Daniel Boone Daniel Boone was born November 2, 1734 in a log cabin in Berks County, near present-day Reading, Pennsylvania. Boone is one of the most famous pioneers in United States history. He spent most of his life exploring and settling the American frontier. The American backwoodsmen had surged up, wave upon wave, till their mass trembled in the troughs of the Alleghanies, ready to flood the continent beyond. The people threatened by them were dimly conscious of the danger which as yet only loomed in the distance. Far off, among their quiet adobe villages, in the sun -scorched lands by the Rio Grande, the slow Indo -Iberian peons and their monkish masters still walked in the tranquil steps of their fathers, ignorant of the growth of the power that was to overwhelm their children and successors; but nearer by, Spaniard and Creole Frenchman, Algonquin and Appalachian, were all uneasy as they began to feel the first faint pressure of the American advance. As yet they had been shielded by the forest which lay over the land like an unrent mantle. All through the mountains, and far beyond, it stretched without a break; but toward the mouth of the Kentucky and Cumberland rivers the landscape became varied with open groves of woodland, with flower -strewn glades and great barrens or prairies of long grass. This region, one of the fairest in the world, was the debatable ground between the northern and the southern Indians. Neither dared http://www.americanrevolution.com/DanielBoonesMovetoKentucky.htm 08/22/2004 dwell therein, but both used it as their hunting -grounds; and it was traversed from end to end by the well -marked war traces which they followed when they invaded each other's territory. The whites, on trying to break through the barrier which hemmed them in from the western lands, naturally succeeded best when pressing along the line of least resistance; and so their first great advance was made in this debatable land, where the uncertainly defined hunting -grounds of the Cherokee, Creek, and Chickasaw marched upon those of Northern Algonquin and Wyandot. Unknown and unnamed hunters and Indian traders had from time to time pushed some little way into the wilderness; and they had been followed by others of whom we do indeed know the names, but little more. One explorer had found and named the Cumberland River and mountains, and the great pass called Cumberland Gap. Others had gone far beyond the utmost limits this man had reached, and had hunted in the great bend of the Cumberland and in the woodland region of Kentucky, famed among the Indians for the abundance of the game. But their accounts excited no more than a passing interest; they came and went without comment, as lonely stragglers had come and gone for nearly a century. The backwoods civilization crept slowly westward without being influenced in its movements by their explorations. Finally, however, among these hunters one arose whose wanderings were to bear fruit; who was destined to lead through the wilderness the first body of settlers that ever established a community in the Far West, completely cut off from the seaboard colonies. This was Daniel Boone. He was bom in Pennsylvania in 1734, but when only a boy had been brought with the rest of his family to the banks of the Yadkin in North Carolina. Here he grew up, and as soon as he came of age he married, built a log hut, and made a clearing, whereon to farm like the rest of his backwoods neighbors. They all tilled their own clearings, guiding the plow among the charred stumps left when the trees were chopped down and the land burned over, and they were all, as a matter of course, hunters. With Boone hunting and exploration were passions, and the lonely life of the wilderness, with its bold, wild freedom, the only existence for which he really cared. He was a tall, spare, sinewy man, with eyes like an eagle's, and muscles that never tired; the toil and hardship of his life made no impress on his iron frame, unhurt by intemperance of any kind, and he lived for eighty-six years, a backwoods hunter to the end of his days. His thoughtful, quiet, pleasant face, so often portrayed, is familiar to every one; it was the face of a man who never blustered or bullied, who would neither inflict nor suffer any wrong, and who had a limitless fund of fortitude, endurance, and indomitable resolution upon which to draw when fortune proved adverse. His self -command and patience, his daring, restless love of adventure, and, in time of danger, his absolute trust in his own powers and resources, all combined to render him peculiarly fitted to follow the career of which he was so fond. Boone hunted on the western waters at an early date. In the valley of Boone's Creek, a tributary of the Watauga, there is a beech -tree still standing, on which can be faintly traced an inscription setting forth that "D. Boone cilled a bar on (this) tree in the year 1760." On the expeditions of which this is the earliest record he was partly hunting on his own account, and partly exploring on behalf of another, Richard Henderson. Henderson was a prominent citizen of North Carolina, a speculative man of great ambition and energy. He stood high in the colony, was extravagant and fond of c3 display, and his fortune being jeopardized he hoped to more than retrieve it by going into 4E speculations in western lands on an unheard-of scale; for he intended to try to establish on his own - account a great proprietary colony beyond the mountains. He had great confidence in Boone; and was his backing which enabled the latter to turn his discoveries to such good account. r� o Boone's claim to distinction rests not so much on his wide wanderings in unknown lands, for in the respect he did little more than was done by a hundred other backwoods hunters of his generation, http://www.americanrevolution.com/DanielBoonesMovetoKentucky.htm 08/22/2004 but on the fact that he was able to turn his daring woodcraft to the advantage of his fellows. As he himself said, he was an instrument "ordained of God to settle the wilderness." He inspired confidence in all who met him, so that the men of means and influence were willing to trust adventurous enterprises to his care; and his success as an explorer, his skill as a hunter, and his prowess as an Indian fighter, enabled him to bring these enterprises to a successful conclusion, and in some degree to control the wild spirits associated with him. Boone's expeditions into the edges of the wilderness whetted his appetite for the unknown. He had heard of great hunting -grounds in the far interior from a stray hunter and Indian trader, who had himself seen them, and on May 1, 1769, he left his home on the Yadkin "to wander through the wilderness of America in quest of the country of Kentucky." He was accompanied by five other men, including his informant, and struck out toward the northwest, through the tangled mass of rugged mountains and gloomy forests. During five weeks of severe toil the little band journeyed through vast solitudes, whose utter loneliness can with difficulty be understood by those who have not themselves dwelt and hunted in primeval mountain forests. Then, early in June, the adventurers broke through the interminable wastes of dim woodland, and stood on the threshold of the beautiful blue -grass region of Kentucky; a land of running waters, of groves and glades, of prairies, cane- brakes, and stretches of lofty forests. It was teeming with game. The shaggy -maned herds of unwieldly buffalo --the bison as they should be called --had beaten out broad roads through the forest, and had furrowed the prairies with trails along which they had traveled for countless generations. The round -homed elk, with spreading, massive antlers, the lordliest of the deer tribe throughout the world, abounded, and like the buffalo traveled in bands not only through the woods but also across the reaches of waving grass land. The deer were extraordinarily numerous, and so were bears, while wolves and panthers were plentiful. Wherever there was a salt spring the country was fairly thronged with wild beasts of many kinds. For six months Boone and his companions enjoyed such hunting as had hardly fallen to men of their race since the Germans came out of the Hercynian forest. In December, however, they were attacked by Indians. Boone and a companion were captured; and when they escaped they found their camp broken up, and the rest of the party scattered and gone home. About this time they were joined by Squire Boone, the brother of the great hunter, and himself a woodsman of but little less skill, together with another adventurer; the two had traveled through the immense wilderness, partly to explore it and partly with the hope of finding the original adventurers, which they finally succeeded in doing more by good luck than design. Soon afterward Boone's companion in his first short captivity was again surprized by the Indians, and this time was slain --the first of the thousands of human beings with whose life -blood Kentucky was bought. The attack was entirely unprovoked. The Indians had wantonly shed the first blood. The land belonged to no one tribe, but was hunted over by all, each feeling jealous of every other intruder; they attacked the whites, not because the whites had wronged them, but because their invariable policy was to kill any strangers on any grounds over which they themselves ever hunted, no matter what man had the best right thereto. The Kentucky hunters were promptly taught that in this no -man's land, teeming with game and lacking even a solitary human habitation, every Indian must be regarded as a foe. The man who had accompanied Squire Boone was terrified by the presence of the Indians, and now returned to the settlements. The two brothers remained alone on their hunting -grounds throughout the winter, living in a little cabin. About the first of May Squire set off alone to the settlements to procure horses and ammunition. For three months Daniel Boone remained absolutely alone in the wilderness, without salt, sugar, or flour, and without the companionship of so much as a horse or a dog. But the solitude -loving hunter, dauntless and self-reliant, enjoyed to the full his wild, lonely http://www.americanrevolution.com/DanielBoonesMovetoKentucky.htm 08/22/2004 life; he passed his days hunting and exploring, wandering hither and thither over the country, while at night he lay off in the canebrakes or thickets, without a fire, so as not to attract the Indians. Of the latter he saw many signs, and they sometimes came to his camp, but his sleepless wariness enabled him to avoid capture. Late in July his brother returned, and met him according to appointment at the old camp. Other hunters also no came into the Kentucky wilderness, and Boone joined a small party of them for a short time. Such a party of hunters is always glad to have anything wherewith to break the irksome monotony of the long evenings passed round the camp fire; and a book or a greasy pack of cards was as welcome in a camp of Kentucky riflemen in 1770 as it is to a party of Rocky Mountain hunters in 1888. Boone has recorded in his own quaint phraseology an incident of his life during this summer, which shows how eagerly such a little band of frontiersmen read a book, and how real its characters became to their minds. He was encamped with five other men on Red River, and they had with them for their amusement the history of Samuel Gulliver's travels, wherein he gave an account of his young master, Glumdelick, careing [sic] him on a market day for a show to a town called Lulbegrud." In the party who, amid such strange surroundings, read and listened to Dean Swift's writings was a young man named Alexander Neely. One night he came into camp with two Indian scalps, taken from a Shawnese village he had found on a creek running into the river; and he announced to the circle of grim wilderness veterans that "he had been that day to Lulbegrud, and had killed two Brobdignags in their capital." To this day the creek by which the two luckless Shawnees lost their lives is known as Lulbegrud Creek. Soon after this encounter the increasing danger from the Indians drove Boone back to the valley of the Cumberland River, and in the spring of 1771 he returned to his home on the Yadkin. A couple of years before Boone went to Kentucky, Steiner, or Stoner, and Harrod, two hunters from Pittsburgh, who had passed through the Illinois, came down to hunt in the bend of the Cumberland, where Nashville now stands; they found vast numbers of buffalo, and killed a great many, especially around the licks, where the huge clumsy beasts had fairly destroyed most of the forest, treading down the young trees and bushes till the ground was left bare or covered with a rich growth of clover. The bottoms and the hollows between the hills were thickset with cane. Sycamore grew in the low ground, and toward the Mississippi were to be found the persimmon and cottonwood. Sometimes the forest was open and composed of huge trees; elsewhere it was of thicker, smaller growth. Everywhere game abounded, and it was nowhere very wary. Other hunters of whom we know even the names of only a few, had been through many parts of the wilderness before Boone, and earlier still Frenchmen had built forts and smelting furnaces on the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the head tributaries of the Kentucky. Boone is interesting as a leader and explorer; but he is still more interesting as a type. The west was neither discovered, won, nor settled by any single man. No keen -eyed statesman planned the movement, nor was it carried out by any great military leader; it was the work of a whole people, of whom each man was impelled mainly by sheer love of adventure; it was the outcome of the ceaseless strivings of all the dauntless, restless backwoods folk to win homes for their descendants and to each penetrate deeper than his neighbors into the remote forest hunting -grounds where the perilous pleasures of the chase and of war could be best enjoyed. We owe the conquest of the west to all the backwoodsmen, not to any solitary individual among them; where all alike were strong and daring there was no chance for any single man to rise to unquestioned preeminence. Chronology of Daniel Boone's Life http://www.americanrevolution.com/DanielBoonesMovetoKentucky.htm 08/22/2004 American Revolution - Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky by Theodore Roosevelt 1713 Boone's father, Squire, arrives in Philadelphia from England. 1720 Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan marry in the Friends' meetinghouse in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. 1731 Boone's parents relocate to the upper Schuylkill River valley. 1734 Born in Exeter township, near Reading, on October 22. Page 5 of 9 1750 Family leaves Pennsylvania for the western country; Boone engages in his first "long hunt." 1751 Family settles in Rowan County, North Carolina, on the Yadkin River; Boone takes up hunting as his business. 1755 French and Indian War begins; Boone with Braddock's army during the disastrous defeat near Pittsburgh. 1756 Marries Rebecca Bryan on August 14; they soon settle in Rowan County. 1759 During the Cherokee War, family flees to Culpeper County, Virginia. 1760 Boone first crosses the Blue Ridge during his winter hunt. 1762 The Booties return to Rowan County. 1765 Boone explores the Florida country with an eye to moving there. 1766 Family moves to a site farther west, near present Wilkesboro, North Carolina. 1767 Reaches Kentucky and hunts along the Big Sandy River. 1768 Regulator rebellion in North Carolina 1769 With five others leaves for a long hunt in Kentucky on May 1; captured by Shawnees on December 22. 1771 Boone returns home after two years in Kentucky. 1773 Boone leads party of family and friends to Kentucky, but they are turned back at Cumberland Gap by an Indian attack that kills his eldest son, James, on October 9. 1774 Sent by Virginia authorities to warn Kentucky surveyors of pending war with Shawnees; leads 3 defense of Clinch River settlements during Dunmore's War. •� 1775 For the Transylvania Company, leads party the Wilderness Road to Kentucky; founds c-4-0 v •— Boonesborough in the face of Shawnee attacks; brings family to Kentucky. U o 1776 Leads rescue of daughter Jemima and Callaway girls from Shawnees in July; copy of Declaration of Independence reaches Boonesborough in August. ccCnX http://www.americanrevolution.com/DanielBoonesMovetoKentucky.htm 08/22/2004 rLtuK;1ic.au 1wvuluutni - liumei tsoone s ivtove to Kentucky by 'Theodore Roosevelt Page 6 of 9 1778 Boone and his men captured by Shawnees while making salt on February 9; he escapes in June; siege of Boonesborough, September 7-18; rejoins Rebecca and children, who had returned to North Carolina. 1779 Leads large party of emigrants to Kentucky in September; settles Boone's Station, north of the Kentucky River. 1780 Participates in attack on Shawnee towns in Ohio; brother Edward killed by Shawnees in October. 1781 Takes elected seat in Virginia assembly in April; captured by invading British forces in June, but soon released. 1782 One of the commanding officers at the Kentuckians' defeat by Indians at the Blue Licks, where son Israel is killed, August 19; in command of a company that attacks Shawnee towns in November. 1783 Relocates family to Limestone, on the Ohio River; takes up tavern keeping, surveying, and land speculating. 1784 The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon by John Filson published on Boon's fiftieth birthday. 1786 Commands an attack on Shawnee towns in October. 1787 Helps negotiate prisoner exchange with Shawnees at Limestone in August; takes seat in Virginia assembly in October. 1789 With Rebecca and youngest children leaves Limestone and relocates at Point Pleasant, farther up the Ohio River. 1791 Serves once again in the Virginia assembly; wins contract to supply militia companies in western Virginia. 1792 Dispute over supply contracts leads to his abandonment of business and return to full-time hunting; with Rebecca, soon moves to a cabin near present Charleston, West Virginia. 1795 To be nearer family, relocates to a cabin on Brushy Fork in Kentucky. 1797 Son Daniel Morgan Boone scouts land in Spanish Missouri; governor invites Boones to emigrate. 1798 Kentucky assembly names county after Boone; Mason County issues warrant for his arrest for debt; leaves Brushy Fork for a cabin at the mouth of the Little Sandy River on the Ohio. ca 1799 Leads extended family from Kentucky to Femme Osage country in Missouri; appointed o to of district by Spanish governor. c 1803 Seriously injured in hunting accident; relocates with Rebecca to cabin on the farm of son c"> Nathan; Louisiana Purchase. as http://www.americanrevolution.com/DanielBoonesMovetoKentucky.htm 08/22/2004 A 1.111VL1Vcu41 1\V V VIUUV11 " 1JCLLuc1 nVUIIC 5 lviuvC co &CnEUCKy oy 1 neoaore Koosevelt Pago 7 of 9 1806 Appears before the Federal Land Commission, seeking confirmation of his Spanish land grant. 1809 Gets word of rejection of his Spanish land grant; works on petitions to Congress. 1813 Rebecca dies March 18. 1814 Congress grants Boone a tract of Missouri land. 1820 Dies on September 26; buried near Rebecca in the cemetery near Jemima`s farm. 1845 A delegation from KZntucky disinters the Boone graves and reburies remains in Frankfort, Kentucky. The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone http://www.americanrevolution.com/DanielBoonesMovetoKentucky.htm 08/22/2004 American Revolution - Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky by Theodore Roosevelt Page 8 of 9 Additional Resources • Daniel Boon's "Adventures"—Published on Boone's 50th birthday, this narrative describes L in Boone's own words his exploits in the Kentucky wilderness from May, 1769 to October of 1782. �z s •Daniel Boone Homestead: The site of Boone's birth in 1734. a AD • Daniel Boone—Myth and Reality.in the American Consciousness—This project by the o 0 "American Studies Group at University of Virginia" provides a cross-section of Boone .z portrayals, and attempt to place their points of view in historical context. cc 0 • Daniel Boone's First View of Kentucky—An art print from the Kentucky Historical Society American Revolution - Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky by Theodore Roosevelt PagO 9 of 9 in commemoration of its 100th Boone Day celebration • Daniel. Boone's Grave—Interesting story of Boone's bones • Daniel Boone—An overview of a television drama dealing with the great American frontiersmen, and featuring sixteen paintings done by Dr. John Bouquet depicting various events in Boone's life. Comments & Quesfions H.�raee Visit Our Other Sites African Americans I American Revolution (American Indians I Billof Rights I Buffalo-_$qldeers (Cong_ressionAl Gold_ MedAlI Defensg of Freedom Medal Histor Hotlene I His�orlcs�l Documents I HomgwQrk HotEine I Irlgi War.j Korean War I �N. edal OtHonor I Medaj-q Freedom I Wool of Vgjqr I N tive Aeterlcans I Outiq Women 11st Amendment I Spanish American War I Terrorism Medal I U S Constitution I Vietnam War Contact American Revolution Copyright © Ameirscans.net Davie County Public Ubraty Mo(*avUle, NC hq://www.americanrevolution.com/DanielBoonesMovetoKentucky.htm 08/22/2004 Daniel Boone One of Americas best-known pioneers, Daniel Boone, lived for a time in Kanawha County. Bom in Berks County, Pennsylvania, on November2,1734, Boone was the sixth of Squire and Sarah Boone's eleven children. In 1752, the family moved to the Yadkin River Valley of North Carolina, where Boone grew up. In 1755, he participated, along with George Washington, in Braddock's Expedi- tion against the French at Fort Duquesne at Pittsburgh. He was married to Rebecca Bryan for 56 years and fathered 10 children. Boone moved his family to the newly colonized Kanawha Valley in early 1787 or 1788 (records are not clear about the date). He lived in a double log cabin (two rooms connected by a roofed passageway, with a porch in front) on what is now Kanawha Avenue in Kanawha City, opposite and a little below the mouth of Campbells Creek He hunted with his friend Paddy Huddleston at Kanawha Falls and Gauley River, and practiced surveying whenever he could. Boone and his wife had lost two sons in Indians attacks, so in the 1780s the Boones adopted a young girl gamed Chloe Flinn, whose parents had been killed by Indians at the mouth of Cabin Creek. A lieutenant colonel with the Kanawha Militia, Boone helped organize the county. After he was elected in 1791 as a delegate to the Virginia Assembly, he walked the entire way to Richmond to take his seat When the area became "too crowded," Boone packed his family on a flatboat in the summer of 1791 and floated down to his beloved Kentucky. Even the short stay at Richmond was too much for this wilderness pioneer. Although Daniel Boone was most famous for his pioneering efforts in Kentucky, his later years were spent in the midwest and Missouri, where he died in 1820. Monument erected in 1928 by the Kanawha Valley Chapter of the DAR to honor pioneer Daniel Boone. The monument now sits just east of the Boy Scout office in the Daniel Boone Roadside Park on US Route 60 East .`DAN r E- (fir TI IF WEST'PP . IPS .'. PIONEElf LII COLOL .11 ,,,"TU.P 01 I71I D/'LFCATE TO I Ii •.I `d n W' \OI\ W.\S AC'111 i IIIL''1,, I... �nM CAVE IN rIJFr ABO VL TED Of ER AND MAGE >'LP —'\ \ SPRING AT'HE 'ATER'S ROCF VERSO tiAa ICALLPINOUIT"IEN .�:IIFEPS OF \NE�R;AN PfVDLICIION 1926 ' -13- s � 9un'w 7,4 iH �7/i rsy 4, 74. a c. xiiAJ i J• c}y S '1434<6Lexf� Copy of Daniel Boone's original 1791 survey near the site of Point Pleasant sm Daniel Boone (17341820). AUTHORS COLLECTION Kanawha County I A • BICENTENNIAL • HISTORY • 17881988 by STAN COHEN with Richard Andre, Research Associate�j �e��'2 fI w f4 S '-j _ w f4 S