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Daniel Boone was far more than a famous Kentucky pioneer and hunter. Over his long life he was also a blacksmith, land surveyor, businessman, soldier, and statesman. He was the sixth oldest of eleven brothers and sisters, the husband of Rebecca Bryan, the father of ten children, and the grandfather of more than sixty children. Boone journeyed as far as modern-day eastern Kansas, helping pave the way for later westward explorers such as Lewis and Clark. Born in 1734 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, he moved with his family to the Yadkin Valley, North Carolina, in 1751, married Rebecca Bryan in 1756, blazed Boone's Trace and saw Fort Boonesborough built in 1775, endured the nine-day siege of Fort Boonesborough in 1778, moved with his family to Missouri in 1799, and died in 1820 in Saint Charles County, Missouri, at the home of his son Nathaniel Boone.

Missouri · United States