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Daniel Boone

American frontiersman
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Born:
c. November 2, 1734, Berks county, Pennsylvania [U.S.]
Died:
c. September 26, 1820, St. Charles county, Missouri, U.S.
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Daniel Boone (born c. November 2, 1734, Berks county, Pennsylvania [U.S.]—died c. September 26, 1820, St. Charles county, Missouri, U.S.) was an early American frontiersman and legendary hero who helped blaze a trail through Cumberland Gap, a notch in the Appalachian Mountains near the juncture of Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Boone had little formal schooling but learned to read and write. As a youth, he moved with his family (English Quakers) to the Yadkin River valley region on the North Carolina frontier. Most of his life was spent as a wandering hunter and trapper. He reached as far south as ...(100 of 684 words)

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