But folklore is not history, and we are fortunate to have a reliable and factual life of Boone through the considerable efforts of John Mack Faragher. The contradictory admirer of Indians who participated in their destruction, the slaveholder who cherished liberty, the devoted family man who prized solitude and would disappear into the woods for years at a time--the real Boone is far more interesting than the mythical image, and in this book we finally catch sight of him.
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Background Information
Daniel Boone explored the regions west of the Appalachians in the what is now Kentucky but was part then part of Virginia in the period around the American Revolution. Kentucky was a state created soon after independence in the frontier across the Appalachians, bounded on the north by the Ohio River.