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Quotes from Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer — Daniel Boone

1734–1820 United States

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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)

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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