Friday!! Time for an American Hero! Today is:
Knowing your American Heroes
DANIEL BOONE (1734-1820)
An American hero and much more
Born ten twenty-two, seventeen thirty-four.
Child of Sarah Morgan and Squire Boone
And like all children he grew too soon.
At age sixteen he’s on his first long hunt
A natural leader always out front.
Gifted with cunning and assertiveness
In fifty-one he makes hunting his business.
At twenty-two he marries Rebecca
Cherokee War they fled to Virginia.
For the next nine years he explores the land
Was known to be first with a helping hand.
From the Blue Ridge Mountains to Kentucky
Into Florida they called him lucky.
Maybe some luck but mostly through skill
Daniel Boone had many things to fulfill.
He was leading his family to safety
On October nine, in seventy-three.
At the Cumberland Gap they were turned back
Killed was son James by the Shawnees’ attack.
Seventy-four was sent to Kentucky
Commissioned by Virginia authority.
Miami and Wyandot Indians
At war they were found joining the Shawnees.
Boonesborough was founded in seventy-five
He fought the Shawnee to keep all alive.
In seventy-six he planned a rescue
Daughter Jemima, the Callaway’s’ too.
Seventy-eight Boonesborough under siege
Boone and his men captured by the Shawnees.
Always alert for his moment to flee
To North Carolina Rebecca would be.
In seventy-nine Daniel settles Boone’s Station
Brother Edward is killed after invasion.
On August nineteen, seventeen eighty-two
The Shawnees killed his son Israel too.
During his life he tried tavern keeping,
Surveying and some land speculating.
A Colonel, a hunter, a scout and a guide
Militia and Politics all done with pride.
His name stays a Legend through all these years
An American Hero, a true Pioneer.
In eighteen twenty we can only surmise
He went on his last hunt to~~ “hunter’s paradise.”
AUTHOR NOTES*
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I am Canadian but I read a book on him when I was young and it made me go on a trip to his home, grave, and several attractions associated with him. A great American hero for sure. Cheers
By: Kelly MacKay on November 21, 2017
at 5:56 pm
Yes in deed!!! thank YOU very much, Ron
By: Ron DuBour on November 21, 2017
at 6:21 pm
He’s a great story to tell, even today
By: Kelly MacKay on November 21, 2017
at 6:25 pm
please follow my American Hero series post every Friday! this week a bonus one on our Thanksgiving and of course one on Friday!! Thank YOU!!!
By: Ron DuBour on November 21, 2017
at 6:32 pm
I will, happy thanksgiving to you
By: Kelly MacKay on November 21, 2017
at 6:38 pm
thank YOU very much!!!! 🙂
By: Ron DuBour on November 21, 2017
at 11:26 pm