Artist's conception of Daniel Boone at approximately age 40.

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At Home on the Yadkin
Daniel Boone was born in Pennsylvania in 1734. When he was sixteen the family headed south, finally settling in the Yadkin River Valley in North Carolina. It was here that Daniel met his wife, Rebecca. She is shown in this painting, standing by their small son, James. On the right of the canvas, Daniel and his younger brother, Edward, discuss the results of target practice.

Marching With Braddock
In 1755 Daniel Boone had marched with the British general, Edward Braddock, in the French and Indian War. Braddock was mortally wounded during an expedition to capture the French stronghold of Fort Duquesne. England lost more than a thousand men that day. Daniel Boone, George Washington, and most of the other colonial troops, who were supporting the British cause, escaped.

The Cumberland Gap
In this canvas Dr. Bouquet depicts Daniel Boone, John Findley, and four other explorers as they enter the new land called Kentucky in 1769. The great Shawnee chief, Cornstalk, looks down from the sky with disfavor as the white strangers penetrate "the Gap" and move into prime Indian hunting territory.

The Wilderness Road
In this painting Daniel Boone leads settlers along the Wilderness Road toward Kentucky. It is 1775 on the eve of the American Revolution. Here Boone is shown in action as he works to control his horse. Soon the entire group of settlers will be three hundred miles deep within the wilderness, with no one to rely on except each other.

Capture of the Girls
Although the winter of 1775-76 brought isolated Indian attacks against the new settlement, Fort Boonesborough, by the following summer life on the frontier was relatively quiet again. On July 14, however, Boone's daughter, Jemima, and two of her young friends, Betsey and Fanny Callaway, were captured by Indians while canoeing on the Kentucky River near the fort. The small group of Shawnee marched the girls into the dark hills, heading north in the direction of the Ohio River.

Rescue of the Girls
In this canvas Boone, who has organized a rescue party with the help of Richard Calloway, surprises the Indians who have halted to prepare a meal. Following a fierce gun battle, the three teenagers are rescued. It is important to note that, although the girls were with the Indians for three days, none suffered any harm.

Capture of Boone
During the winter of 1778 the settler's supply of salt, which was used to cure hides and preserve meat, began running low.Boone therefore, led a company of some thirty men to the Blue Licks where they planned to make a year's supply of the vital preservative. In February, though, Boone was captured while away from the main group of salt makers by Chief Black Fish. In this painting Dr. Bouquet shows Boone being marched into camp under Shawnee guns. He surrenders the entire group of Kentuckians to the Indians without firing a shot.

In the Camp of Black Fish
Daniel Boone and the other salt makers were marched north across the frozen Ohio River to the British outpost, Fort Detroit. Later Boone lived for four months in the main Shawnee camp. Although a prisoner, Daniel was soon declared by Chief Black Fish to be his adopted son, and the two men developed a profound respect for each other. It is at this point in the saga that one becomes aware of the eerie feeling of kinship which existed between Boone and the Indians he met during his life. This canvas includes Daniel, Black Fish, two Shawnee warriors, and an Indian girl. Most historians agree that Boone lived with a Shawnee girl during the months he was in the camp of Black Fish.

Boone Meets Black Fish
The setting of this painting is outside Fort Boonesborough. It is now August of 1778 and Daniel Boone, having realized that Black Fish plans to march south and destroy the frontier forts, has escaped back to Kentucky. Note the British soldier in the background. It should be remembered that this is during the American Revolution,and the Shawnee were supporting the British. Here Boone and Black Fish discuss a possible truce. Talks somehow break down, however. The father and his adopted son are about to fight each other for a full ten days!

Battle for Boonesborough
In this canvas Dr. Bouquet captures the exact moment this battle begins. Some of the Kentuckians were caught outside the fort as they talked with the British and Indians, attempting to avoid conflict. Here Boone and the other settlers race towrd the safety of the fort. After days of fighting, Black Fish tried to tunnel under the fort, and then attempted to burn it to the ground. Rain saved the settlers, and Black Fish and his four hundred braves withdrew.

Battle of Blue Licks
During the siege of Bryan's Station by British and Indians in the summer of 1782, Daniel Boone hoped to avenge the slaughter of hundreds of farm animals. Instead, they were ambushed at Blue Licks and routed. In this painting we see Daniel, already beginning to retreat as his son, Israel,fights on. Israel Boone was killed that day, in what many historians regard as the last battle of the American Revolution.

Down the Ohio
By 1786 Daniel Boone had filed claims on more than one hundred thousand acres in Kentucky, but eventually he lost it all, either to land sharks, or to the government for back taxes. His disgust with this situation continued to grow until finally, in 1799, he left Kentucky, leading a party of Boones, Bryans and Callaways down the Ohio to Missouri. Here we see the canoes on the river and Daniel on the southern shore. He always claimed he walked "every step of the way" to the new territory.

The Boone Home
Once in Missouri, Daniel Boone was awarded some eight hundred and fifty acres by the Spanish governor there. He was also appointed judge for the Femme Osage district in what is now St. Charles County. The home in this painting was built by Daniel and his son, Nathan. Here we see Daniel and his wife, Rebecca as an old couple. To the left is Daniel Morgan Boone, another of their sons. Daniel Morgan had come to Missouri earlier to scout the new territory.

Daniel and Derry
This painting depicts Daniel Boone and a young boy named Derry outside of the Boone home. The two often hunted together. While we do not know exactly how far west Daniel ventured in his old age (some have him traveling as far as Wyoming) we do know he once visited Fort Osage near present day Independence. Daniel Boone died at the Boone home in St. Charles County, September 26, 1820.

Here is the complete, genuine issue of NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER newspaper from Baltimore Maryland dated Nov. 4, 1820. On an inside page of this 16 page issue is a very historic report on the recent death of Daniel Boone (see photo below). On EBAY, Feb. 2001

DANIEL BOONE (1734 - 1820) American pioneer who explored the Kentucky region and guided settlers into the area, constructed a fort at what is now Boonesboro, remembered for his many close calls with hostile Indians. A.D.S. "Daniel Boone" with original drawing, 1p. legal folio, Dec. 22 n.y., a land survey undertaken by Boone in his native Kentucky. In part: "....Survaid for Thomas Logwood forteen thousand Eight hundred acres of Land beginning at the mouth of a Large Crick Running into Licking...". Boone has also drawn a 4 1/2" x 5" map of the 14,800 acre tract, including a river and its tributaries. Text and signature have lightened a bit, negligible loss to a few letters in text expertly restored, with a 2" x 5" area of paper at lower-right lacking yet not affecting signature nor text. $8,000-10,000 (e-bay)

The signature of Daniel Boone which is shown under his picture herewith is a reproduction of the original signed to a letter of his dated May 6, 1806,

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Here is a COMPLETE, genuine Newspaper with the following title, date and description: NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, Nov. 4, 1820 "Chronicle" on an inside pg. includes a report: "Col. Daniel Boone...the latest St. Louis papers state that he died at Chraette village, on the Missouri, on the 26th of Sept., in his ninetieth year of his age..." Octavo-size, 16 pgs. good. I have been a dealer in rare newspapers for over 25 years and every item I offer is guaranteed to be absolutely genuine. A U.S. winner pays $5 shipping. Click here for answers to common questions on old newspapers and to see our other historic issues currently available.

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Daniel Boone Land Deed

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AUTHOR: Boone, Daniel.
TITLE: [Letter to Col. William Cristen]
PLACE: [S.l.]
YEAR: 1785

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TITLE: The Old Fort at Boonesborough
PLACE: Boonesborough, Kentucky
YEAR: [1---?]

Daniel Boone Sitting at the Door of his Cabin on the Great Osage Lake, Kentucky, 1826

by William C. Allen
The artist presented this romanticized portrait of Kentucky's preeminent frontiersman to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1839.
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http://www.pastseeker.com/boone/kentucky/bboro.shtml
Fort Boonesborough, named for Daniel Boone, was begun in April, 1775 and is called the "Birthplace of Kentucky." This is a sketch of what the fort looked like when the Boones lived there according to Moses Boone, son of Squire Boone, brother of Daniel Boone. Moses lived at the fort with his family.

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Daniel Boone killed a bear 1817

There were originally 358 of these Boone Trail Highway tablets made and placed from Virginia Beach, VA to San Francisco, CA. They were done by a Mr. J. Hampton Rich of Mocksville, NC, whose Boone Memorial Association had as its objective the raising of the Boone reputation and its memory in the American consciousness.
The marker . . . is one that is registered and located at Hillsville, VA

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Believed to be the log cabin Daniel Boone built upon arrivein in St. Charles Co., Mo. - Photographed in the late 1800’s
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Daniel Boone Powder Horn
“Daniel Boone traded it to William Robert Leslie in about 1790. It has passed from father to son ever since: from William Robert Leslie to Robert Leslie to James Harvey Leslie to John Buchanan Leslie to Shirley Hugh Leslie (Shirley was a male, the father of Gene B. Leslie.) and finally to Gene Bennet Leslie, my stepfather, recently deceased.” (This lineage has been verified through census records by Society President Cochran.) . . . .
. . . “The Horn is covered with carvings, Boone’s initials, deer, snakes, daisies, geometric figures and many other things. There is a knife scabbard on the back of the pouch . . . .”

This bust of Daniel Boone, elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1915, was executed by Albin Polasek in 1926. Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was an American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the U.S. state of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. Despite resistance from American Indians, for whom Kentucky was a traditional hunting ground, in 1775 Boone blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky. There he founded Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Boone was a militia officer during the American Revolutionary War which in Kentucky was fought primarily between settlers and British-allied American Indians.

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans--the original "Hall of Fame", was conceived of by Dr. Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Chancellor of New York University from 1891 to 1910. It was designed as part of the school's undergraduate campus in University Heights in the Bronx, which is today the campus of Bronx Community College of The City University of New York. The Hall of Fame stands on the heights occupied by the British army in its successful attack upon Fort Washington in the autumn of 1776. MacCracken, once said "Lost to the invaders of 1776, this summit is now retaken by the goodly troop of 'Great Americans', General Washington their leader. They enter into possession of these Heights and are destined to hold them, we trust, forever."

The memorial structure is a sweeping open-air colonnade, 630 feet in length, designed in neoclassical style by the Stanford White. Financed by a gift from Mrs. Finley J. Shepard (Helen Gould), the Hall of Fame was formally dedicated on May 30, 1901. The Colonnade was designed with niches to accommodate 102 sculptured works and currently houses the busts and commemorative plaques of 98 of the 102 honorees elected since 1900. Each bronze bust, executed by a distinguished American sculptor, must be made specifically for The Hall of Fame and must not be duplicated within 50 years of its execution. To be eligible for nomination, a person must have been a native born or naturalized citizen of the United States, must have been dead for 25 years and must have made a major contribution to the economic, political, or cultural life of the nation. Of the 17 categories in The Hall of Fame, Authors is the largest, with Statesmen following closely.

The complex of three buildings adjoining the Colonnade--Gould Memorial Library, the Hall of Languages, and Cornelius Baker Hall of Philosophy--were also designed by Stanford White and bear a close conceptual relationship to the Colonnade, with the library as the central focus.

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Fort Boonesbourough drawing by Moses Boone

Fort Boonesborough 1775