Daniel Boone (1734-1820)

Daniel grow up in Pennsylvania and he was an outdoor person . He wanted to go west and explore. When Daniel was a wagon driver during the French and Indian War on the British side, he met a fur trader named John Finley. John told him about a beautiful meadowland where Indians lived that was full of wildlife.

When the war was over, Daniel went to explore "kentake" (Kentucky), using an Indian trail Finley had told him about through the mountains. Daniel and 30 other men turned the trail into the 300-mile "Wilderness Road" in 1775. Thousands of people used the Wilderness Road to go west through the Cumberland Gap.

Daniel Boone started a town in Kentucky called Boonesborough. Indians attacked the town many times during the revolutionary war and kidnapped Boone. After he was released, he moved from Kentucky to St. Louis, Missouri. He lived there from 1799 until his death.