Early American frontiersman, Daniel Boone, is responsible for the development of the state known today, as Kentucky. Boone, born in 1734 in Pennsylvania, was a lifelong outdoorsman. Boone “had very little formal education.”i and “appears to have been a scrappy lad who loved hunting, the wilderness, and independence.”ii while most Americans recognize the name Daniel Boone, not everyone knows what Boone actually accomplished during his life; the settlement of Kentucky. Boone traveled to Kentucky first in 1767 and returned several times after that before settling in Kentucky himself. Boone took a “small party”iii to explore Kentucky in 1769. “when it came time for the party to return he remained behind in the wilderness until March 1771.”iv
