Life & Times of Col. Daniel Boone

on's description of the Backwoodsmen-Daniel Boone marries Rebecca Bryan-His farmer life in North Carolina-State of the country-

of this removal of the family residence is not known. Mr. Peck, an excellent authority, says i

of that region. The capital of Watauga County, which was formed in 1849, is named Boone, in honor of Daniel Boone. The historian of North Carolina[6] is disposed to claim him as a son of the State. He says: "In North Carolina Daniel Boone was reared. Here his y

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One almost regrets," says Mr. Peck, "to spoil so beautiful a romance, as that which has had such extensive circulation in the various 'Lives of Boone,' and which represents him as mistaking the bright eyes of this young lady, in

d careless of the citizens of North Carolina were not unobservant, however, of the political aspect of the times. During this period the people, by their representatives in th

lf and the Legislature, on matters frivolous and unimportant. A high-toned temper for Royal prerogatives on his part, and an indomitable resistance of the Colonists ... The people were much oppressed by Lor

s destined to grow more and more intolerable under Governor Tryon's administration, and to lead to the formation

doings of the tax-gatherers had nothing to do with his subsequent movements. He not only hated oppression, but he hated also strife and disturbance

explorations were made to the northwest on the banks of the Holston and Clinch Rivers. The times were already beginning to exhibit sympto