Daniel Boone

Oil sketch of Daniel Boone by Chester Harding.  The only portrait of Boone painted from life. This was painted when Boone was 84 years old, a few months before his death. Harding painted Boone in June 1820 while Boone was living with his daughter Jemima Boone Callaway in Missouri. According to historian Ted Franklin Belue, "from this original oil portrait Harding made three copies: two busts and a full-length." (The Life of Daniel Boone by Lyman Draper, edited by Ted Franklin Belue. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1998, p. 2.)
Date: June 1820	(1820-06)
Source: Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. Reproduced from Alistair Cooke's America (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1973)

Meeting of Boone and his Brother

Daniel Boone meeting his brother Squire

SOURCE: Mason, Lynch Augustus. The Romance and Tragedy of Pioneer Life. Cincinnati, OH: Jones Brothers and Company, 1884.

The humble and adventurous Daniel Boone who lived from 1734 to 1820, meeting one of his brothers - Squire Jr. (1744-1815), who was named after their father.

First Glimpse of Kentucy

My hero Daniel Boone


SOURCE: Bagley and Beard.
The History of the American People. Sacramento: California State Printing Department, 1920.

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone was born to Quaker parents in 1734 in Pennsylvania. He was a hunter, a pioneer, a frontiersman and an army officer.  He pioneered the settlement of Kentucky.