If you're a Baby Boomer you might remember the the Daniel Boone television series, which aired from 1964 to 1970. In the show Daniel Boone was a ""big man"" in a ""coonskin cap"", and the ""rippin'est, roarin'est, fightin'est man the frontier ever knew!"" This was not the real Daniel Boone, who was neither big nor did not wear a coonskin cap. The real Daniel Boone (1734 - 1820) was an American explorer and pioneer whose life made him a man of legend in the early United States. Boone is most well know for his original exploration of what is now Kentucky, which lay outside of the Thirteen Col |