Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734-September 26, 1820), was a famous United States pioneer and frontiersman who blazed the Wilderness Road and founded Boonesborough, Kentucky (also known as Boonesboro).

Folklore

Many anecdotes of Boone folklore are recorded:

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• His rifle was a Kentucky Long Rifle he named "Tick-Licker".
• In spite of popular movies, he did NOT wear a coonskin hat, but prefered a "tall" black felt one. He likely wore buckskin clothes with fringed leather trim.
• He never admitted to being lost; however, he once reported that he was "confused for several weeks."
• He was captured by the Chief Black Fish of the Shawnee, but escaped when he learned of a British and Indian plot to attack Boonesborough.
• He rallied the settlers and successfully repelled a 10 day siege of Boonesborough.
• When he first met his wife Rebecca, he thought she was a deer in the dark woods, but couldn't shoot her because he never saw a deer with blue eyes before. He tracked her to her home and was smitten when he saw her. He continued to follow her around until she consented to marry him.
• He claimed he once killed a Yahoo, a hairy giant.

The publication of The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon in 1784 by John Filson immortalized Boone the frontiersman as an American legend and a true folk hero.

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The name Daniel Boone was used by a UK pop singer during the early 1970s, recording on Penny Farthing Records and achieving a worldwide hit with "Hi, Hi, Hi, Beautiful Sunday."

Related Topics:
1970s - Penny Farthing Records

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