[Perseverando]

Time for another great American history lesson from American Minute.

[blam]

I remember, as a young boy in the 50’s, playing Daniel Boone in the woods near my rural home.

[RideForever]

A Freemason, among several Freemasons mentioned in the article, including George Washington.

[rightwingcrazy]

Daniel Boone was a man. Yes, a big man.

[Pelham]

I had ancestors who lived along the Yadkin in the 1760s. Makes we wonder if they knew Boone.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[oh8eleven]

"I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days."
Now that's funny!

[Deaf Smith]

"Together they had ten children"

If I recall, D Boone left out on a 18 month excursion and came back to find wife with a newborn kid....from his brother.

D. Boone was to have said *It's all family.

[RegulatorCountry]

My mother lives just a few miles from where Squire Boone and several other members of Daniel Boone’s family are buried, in Davie County North Carolina. But, it was Rowan or possibly even Anson County when they were alive. Counties were split off repeatedly due to population growth. The colonial and later state government believed that smaller county governments that were closer to the people they governed was best. Even new county seat “courthouse towns” were established in the geographic center of newly established counties, if none were already in existence there.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Not related to Fess Parker I guess.

[DouglasKC]

Thanks for that...

[Sans-Culotte]

Wow, not many dull moments for ole Dan’l.

[libertylover]

Thanks for posting.

Prior to Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary, there was no standard spelling of words in America.

I live in the same county and about 10 miles from where Boone had his fort. On the nearby interstate there are two signs, within 5 miles of one another, for the state park at the site of the old fort. On one it refers to "Boonesborough", and the other refers to "Boonesboro". Both spellings fail the FreeRepublic and Microsoft Word spell checkers. (However, Duck Duck Go knows about the place using the longer spelling).

[MuttTheHoople]

Daniel Boone, the original Florida Man.

[NellieMae]

I love this!! I live in an area that this article makes many references too!!

[N. Theknow]

[TheRightGuy]

what a boon, what a doer, what a dream come truer was daniel boone

[Renkluaf]

At what age did he become a racist or was he born that way because you know all those people back then were....

[trisham]

Life wasn’t easy in the New World.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[minnesota_bound]

I am bewildered as I have thought the indians were peace loving who were one with nature.