Daniel Boone
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Daniel Boone was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which
1820 portrait
Boone's First View of Kentucky, William Tylee Ranney (1849)
George Caleb Bingham's Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap (1851–52) is a famous depiction of Boone.
Abduction of Boone's Daughter, painting by Karl Ferdinand Wimar, 1855, Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Rebecca Boone
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Rebecca Bryan Boone was an American pioneer and the wife of famed frontiersman Daniel Boone. She began her life in the Colony of Virginia, and at the age of ten moved with her grandparents and extende
Daniel Boone
…Boone, in the rear with the wagons, took no part in the battle, and fled with the retreating soldiers. He returned home after the defeat, and married Rebecca Bryan, a neighbor in the Yadkin Valley, on August 14, 1756. The couple initially lived in a cabin on his father's farm, and eventually had ten children, in…
Fort Dobbs was the only fort built in the frontier region of the North Carolina colony. The fort was reconstructed and opened to the public in 2019.
Fort Boone, now Boonesborough, Kentucky
Karl Bodmer, Capture of the Daughters of Daniel Boone and Richard Callaway by the Indians, 1852, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut