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Daniel Boone was born in 1734 and died in 1820. He entered eastern Kentucky in 1767, explored the Bluegrass Region from 1769 to 1771, guided the Transylvania Company, blazed the Wilderness Trail, and built Fort Boonesborough in 1775. In 1778 he directed the defense of the fort. He emigrated to Missouri in 1799 and was reinterred with his wife Rebecca in Frankfort Cemetery in 1845.
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