Longhunter
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A longhunter was an 18th-century explorer and hunter who made expeditions into the American frontier for as much as six months at a time.
Reconstructed "lean-to" at the longhunter camp demonstration area at Bledsoe's Fort Historic Park in Sumner County, Tennessee
Stones River
1852 painting of Squire Boone crossing the mountains
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
Longhunter
…some of whom may have been veterans of Stephen's expedition) began crossing the Appalachians into Tennessee and Kentucky in greater numbers. In 1764, Daniel Boone, Richard Callaway and Benjamin Cutbirth explored the upper Holston Valley as agents for Richard Henderson, a land speculator who later played an important…
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