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Daniel Boone Quotes

1734–1820 United States

Daniel Boone (2 November {22 October O.S. 1734 - 26 September 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone became famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies.

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Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993)

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993)

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993)

Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Boone (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.