What is Daniel Boone?
{{Infobox Person | name = Daniel Boone | image = Portrait of Daniel Boone by Chester Harding 1820.jpg | caption = The only portrait of Boone painted from life | birth_date = November 2, 1734 in [[Pennsylvania]], [[United States]] | death_date = September 26, 1820 | spouse = | education = None | Notable awards = | signature = Daniel Boone Signature.svg |}} '''Daniel Boone''' (1734 – 1820) was an [[United States|American]] [[explorer]] and frontiersman. He is probably most famous for exploring [[Kentucky]] when it was not yet a [[US state]]. In 1769, he made the [[Wilderness Road]], a trail through the [[Appalachian Mountains]] from [[North Carolina]] and [[Tennessee]] and through Kentucky. He spent the last 20 years of his life in [[Missouri]]. == Early life == Boone was born on November 2, 1734 ([[Old Style and New Style dates|N.S.]]).{{efn|This is adjusted to the current calendar. Boone was born on 2 November 1734 O.S. He died on 26 September 1820 N.S. During his lifetime, the calendar changed from the [[Julian calendar]] to the present [[Gregorian calendar]] in 1752 and so his date of birth was adjusted.<ref name=Bakeless7/>}}<ref name=Bakeless7>John Bakeless, ''Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness'' (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989), p. 7 & note *</ref> Boone's grandfather, George Boone, a [[Quakers|Quaker]], [[immigrate]]d from [[England]] in 1717.<ref name=Zronik8.9>John Paul Zronik, ''Daniel Boone: Woodsman of Kentucky'' (New York: Crabtree Publishing Co., 2006), pp. 8–9</ref> Boone was born in [[Berks County, Pennsylvania]], the son of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan.<ref name=Zronik8.9/> His father was a [[weaver]], and his mother ran the family [[farm]].<ref name=Zronik8.9/> In addition to his chores on the farm, Boone learned to [[hunting|hunt]], [[fishing|fish]], and [[animal trapping|trap]].<ref name=Zronik8.9/> When he was 15, his family moved to the [[Yadkin River|Yadkin Valley]], in [[North Carolina]]. == French and Indian War == Boone was a part of an [[Great Britain|British]] ex