Daniel Boone's Quaker family had pioneered North Carolina's Yadkin River Valley. The Boone family lived four miles from Mordecai Lincoln, the great-great grandfather of Abraham Lincoln. The sixth of eleven children, Daniel Boone was given his first rifle at age 12 and began to hunt and explore. Boone once exclaimed: "I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days." During the French and Indian War, 20-year-old Daniel Boone, and his cousin - future General Daniel Morgan, served as wagon drivers for the British in the Battle of Monongahela, July 9, 1755. Also in that...