Rebecca Boone (Person) AKA Rebecca Ann Bryan Boone
Rebecca Boone
1739 AD - 1813 AD
AKA Rebecca Ann Bryan Boone
American pioneer and the wife of famed frontiersman Daniel Boone.
No contemporary portrait of her exists, but people who knew her said that when she met her future husband she was nearly as tall as he and very attractive with black hair and dark eyes.
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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.
