Exploring+the+Frontier+-+Daniel+Boone

__ **Main Idea: The pioneers explored land west of the Appalachians in the late 1700's.**

A pioneer is one of the first groups of people to enter or settle in a region.
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 * __Daniel Boone:__** Daniel Boone was a hunter and a pioneer. He was a hero for the western explorations because he led settlers west. Daniel Boone helped clear the new road thought the cumberland gap. He was short on education but he had courage and frontier skills. At the age 21 he joined a British expedition to drive the French out of Ohio Valley. In 1767 Daniel Boone started exploring Kentucky, where he went through the Wilderness Trail and lead new settlers west. He founded Boonesborough in 1775. The Sawnee captrued him at one point of his life and took him far away from his home. But later he escaped them and his wilderness experiences helped him complete a 160 mile hike back home in only four days.

__**Born**__: November 2, 1734, in Pennsylvania, his family calender was not right and they recorded his birthday to be on October 22. Daniel Boone was the 6th kid out of 11. He was born to a quaker family.

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 * __Died__**: September 26, 1820. Daniel Boone died at his son, Nathan's house in Defiance, Missouri.

Boone, Daniel." //America the Beautiful//. 2010. Grolier Online. 3 May 2010 [] This website will bring you to chapter 10, lesson 1 summary []
 * __Sources:__** S.S Textbook