Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life of Daniel Boone: The Founder of the State of Kentucky
The subject of the following biography, the celebrated Colonel Danlel Boone, is one of the most remarkable men which this country has produced. His character is marked with originality, and his actions were important and influential in one of the most interesting periods of our history - that of the early settlement of Kentucky. Boone is generally acknowledged as the founder of that State. His having explored it alone to a considerable extent; his leading the earliest bands of settlers; his founding Boonesborough, the nucleus of the future State; his having defended this and other stations sue cessfully against the attacks of the Indians; and the prominent part which lie took in military.
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