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Daniel Boone   /dˈænjəl bun/   Listen
Daniel Boone

noun
1.
An American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820).  Synonym: Boone.






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"Daniel Boone" Quotes from Famous Books



... detective stories in the Old Testament. With Mr. Mason he was all scientific farming, chemical manures, macadam roads, and crop rotation; and to little Billy (who sat next him) he told extraordinary yarns about Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, and what not. Honestly I was amazed at the little man. He was as genial as a cricket on the hearth, and yet every now and then his earnestness would break through. I don't wonder he was ...
— Parnassus on Wheels • Christopher Morley

... the world find Cowbell "Holler" alone, so I will tell you how to get there. You come over the Big Hill pike until you reach West Pinnacle. It was from the peak of West Pinnacle that Daniel Boone first looked out over the blue grass region of Kentucky. You follow the pike around the base of the Pinnacle, and there you are, right in the heart of Cowbell "Holler," and only two pastures and a creek away from Miss Adelia Fox's rural social settlement—the ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

... fluttering in the bushes, she strained her eyes to see what horrible thing might be creeping up toward her. She had no thought that live Indians might be lurking about, but all the terrible stories she had ever heard, of the days of Daniel Boone and the early settlers, came back to haunt the woods with ...
— Two Little Knights of Kentucky • Annie Fellows Johnston

... Germans can claim Daniel Boone; he was in blood a blend of English and Welsh; in character wholly English. His grandfather George Boone was born in 1666 in the hamlet of Stoak, near Exeter in Devonshire. George Boone was a weaver by trade and a Quaker ...
— Pioneers of the Old Southwest - A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground • Constance Lindsay Skinner

... of the modern writer who knows he must found his message firmly upon reality. For both Leather-stocking and Chingachgook are true in the broad sense, albeit the white trapper's dialect may be uncertain and the red man exhibit a dignity that seems Roman rather than aboriginal. The Daniel Boone of history must have had, we feel, the nobler qualities of Bumpo; how otherwise did he do what it was his destiny to do? In the same way, the Indian of Cooper is the red man in his pristine home before the day of fire-water ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton

... two boys who, in company with their folks, move westward with Daniel Boone. Contains many thrilling scenes among the Indians ...
— The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast • Victor Appleton



Words linked to "Daniel Boone" :   frontiersman, mountain man, backwoodsman, Boone



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