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Beyond the Appalachian Mountains, a hunter follows the promise of Kentucky into a life of danger, endurance, and loss.
In Daniel Boone, John S. C. Abbott follows a Pennsylvania farm boy who prefers the woods to the schoolroom. Boone learns to track animals and move quietly through forest. Then trader John Finley tells him of Kentucky: rolling land, cane thickets, salt springs, and herds of buffalo and deer. The country beyond the mountains draws him west.
Long hunts in unmapped forest lead toward the road through Cumberland Gap and the watchful life of Boonesborough. Families seek a place to settle, but danger shadows their hopes. Abbott tells Boone’s life as a story of courage and endurance, shaped by a nineteenth-century moral outlook. It is an absorbing frontier biography, though not a balanced account of Native American perspectives.
What you’ll discover
- A boy of the woods Meet the young Boone as he learns the skills that shape his life.
- Kentucky through Finley’s eyes Discover the trader’s vivid account of a country that draws Boone toward the wilderness.
- A road through mountains Follow the trail through Cumberland Gap, where hopes of settlement meet the demands of wilderness.
- Life behind fort walls Enter Boonesborough, where settlers farm near the walls and hunt in small groups.
- Courage with a cost Explore a life in which endurance and achievement stand beside bitter personal losses.
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For readers who love frontier adventure, early American history, and stories of one person's life, with wilderness survival, courage, and endurance at their heart.
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- A boy who belonged in the woods
- A trader's tale sends Boone west
- Grief and the road through the Gap
- Life in the fort and the rescue of three girls
- Captive among the Shawnee
- Losses, land troubles, and what lasted
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Daniel Boone
by John S. C. Abbott · 1872
Through Cumberland Gap, Boone cuts a road into Kentucky and faces the personal cost of opening the frontier.
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Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky is a short biography of the hunter and trailblazer who opened the land beyond the Appalachian Mountains to American settlers. It was written by John S.
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A boy who belonged in the woods
Daniel Boone was born in 1734 in Pennsylvania, into a large Quaker family of farmers and craftsmen. Abbott shows him as a boy who learned early to track animals, shoot straight, and move quietly through forest. School mattered little to him, and he never gained much formal learning. The woods taught him patience, observation, and self-reliance.
When Daniel was a teenager, the family moved south to the Yadkin valley of North Carolina. The country there was still thinly settled, and game was plentiful. Boone spent long weeks away from home hunting deer and bear and selling the skins. These trips gave him a feel for distance, weather, and the habits of both animals and people in the backcountry.
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What is Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky about?
It is a biography of Daniel Boone, the hunter and explorer who helped open Kentucky to settlers. It covers his boyhood, his journeys through Cumberland Gap, the founding of Boonesborough, his captivity among the Shawnee, and his later life.
Is Daniel Boone by John S. C. Abbott a true story?
Yes, it is a biography based on the real life of Daniel Boone. Abbott added dramatic color.
Who was Daniel Boone?
Daniel Boone was an American frontiersman born in 1734. He explored Kentucky, marked the Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap, helped found Boonesborough, and later moved to Missouri, where he died in 1820.
The author
John S. C. Abbott
1805–1877 · American historian and author
John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805–1877) was an American historian, pastor, and author. He was born in Brunswick, Maine, and died in Fair Haven, Connecticut. He served as a Congregational minister in Massachusetts. His historical books included History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great (1871) and Daniel Boone (1872).
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