daniel boone report

    The man you are reading about in my report is Daniel Boone. He made it more of a chance for the settlers to move West on the most well know trail of his, the Wilderness Trail or the Cumberland Gap (what he called it). He was also very rich and was a famous military man also. These are some of the points you will read in my report.
    Daniel Boone was born in Exeter township in Pennsylvania on October 22, 1734. He died on September 26th 1820. Many believe that Daniel Boone wore a coon skin cap but Lewis and Clark say he wore a beaver skin cap, also he got his fame for exploring Kentucky, not for his hunting and trapping. These are just some of the many legends that surround this legendary man, Daniel Boone, But we are not covering the legends we are talking about the real man.
    He was one of the more famous pioneers to explore the Louisiana Territory. By 1769 he and his brother were living in Kentucky seven years before the U.S.A. was even a country. In 1775 Boone made a trail through the Cumberland Gap from Virginia to Kentucky this was later called the Wilderness Trail, “Boone lead a group of 30 men  to forge this trail.” (Davidson, James West., and Michael B. Stoff. America History of Our Nation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Print page 275) The majority of westward moving settlers followed this trail. When he was making this trail he made agreements with the Indians. In the later years he was captured at an Indian compound and the Native Americans attacked and raided a fort. During the raid Daniel Boone escaped and warned the other forts people.   
     During his time as a soldier he was in the French and Indian War, the Cherokee War and the War of 1812, he also made it to the rank of militia officer in the Revolutionary War. He was married August 14, 1756 and he had ten children. He and his family escaped the Revolutionary War by going to Kentucky.  He also led many attacks and raids on Shawnee villages. Once he was separated from his hunting party and was lost for twenty days and finally he finds his way back to his family.
    He got most of his fame for blazing the Cumberland Gap. This was from Virginia to Kentucky. The trail was very important for the settlers to move more West instead of going over the Appalachian Mountains. But the overpopulation of Kentucky made him move to Missouri.
    Another way he got his fame was his services in the military. He served in 3 wars and evaded another (the Revolutionary War) he was promoted to militia officer buy the time the Revolutionary War rolled around. The reason he didn't want to fight in the war is because he was getting older and had ten children at the time. “A zeal for the defense of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors” (www.brainyquote.com).
    This man was a huge part of the movement West in the early years of this Country also we get some amazing folklore from this man and his adventures around this unsettled and unexplored land that we live and thrive on today .
    Daniel Boone was very rich, we know this because he had over 100,000 acres, but lawyers sued him and took his land. He always wanted to live where the land was scarcely populated . In 1799 he moved to Missouri because he said “Kentucky was getting too crowded”. He also volunteered for the war of 1812, a couple years later Daniel was too old he couldn't even hold his rifle straight so he learned how to set traps. He died September 26, 1820. His remains were moved to Frankfurt, Kentucky later that year.