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2 November {22 October O.S. 1734 - September 26, 1820

Daniel Boone (2 November {22 October O.S. 1734 - 26 September 1820) was an American pioneer, frontiersman, who blazed the "Wilderness Road" and founded Boonesborough, Kentucky. HIs exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

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Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

As quoted in Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993) by John Mack Faragher p. 302

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I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

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— As quoted in Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993) by John Mack Faragher p. 301

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Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

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— As quoted in Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993, p. 302) by John Mack Faragher.

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Daniel Boone
— American pioneer and explorer

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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.

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— As quoted in the opening lines of "The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon; containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucke" in The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke (1784) by John Filson.

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I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

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— As quoted in Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993, p. 65) by John Mack Faragher.

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