Daniel Boone (Person)
Daniel Boone
1734 AD - 1820 AD
American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.
Although he also became a businessman, soldier and politician who represented three different counties in the Virginia General Assembly following the American Revolutionary War, Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky.
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08/14/1756 AD - Issue
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10/04/1762 AD
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Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap Using Biblical and classical imagery to justify and heroicize westward expansion, Bingham portrays Rebecca Boone in the pose of a Madonna, a popular domestic ideal of the time, and she is completed in interpretive ways with a faithful hunting dog and her husband leading a noble charger. She represented all pioneer women who by the mid-nineteenth century were idealized and celebrated.
The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter by the Indians Jemima, daughter of Daniel Boone, and Elizabeth and Frances, daughters of Colonel Richard Callaway are captured by Indians on July 14, 1776.
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