Who was the real Daniel Boone?

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  • Who was Daniel Boone? Will the real Daniel Boone step up? Well, there's a lot of misinformation and mythology about him out there, so in this video Mr. Beat hopes to clear some things up. Here is the story of the most interesting man in America, Daniel Boone. #danielboone #westwardexpansion #apush
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    Today, Boone is one of the most misunderstood figures in American history. This is mostly due to how he was portrayed later in books in the 19th century, and in numerous comic strips, radio shows, and films in the 20th century. Then of course, there was this TV show about him that was popular in the 1960s. The actor in that show, Fess Parker, basically acted like the same way he did in a previous role, playing Davy Crockett. Needless to say, the show was not historically accurate AT ALL.
    Daniel Boone was born on November 2, 1734 in what became Berks County, Pennsylvania, today an hour’s drive from Philadelphia. His parents, Squire and Sarah Boone, were Quakers who escaped persecution for their religious beliefs back in England. Daniel was a middle child, sixth of eleven children. The family lived just down the road from future President Abraham Lincoln’s ancestors. In fact, Abraham Lincoln’s great-grandfather, also named Abraham Lincoln, married Daniel’s cousin Ann.
    As a kid, Daniel spent most of his time at the edge of the frontier, often taking his family’s cattle out to graze. He loved wandering in the woods with those cows. He regularly interacted with the nearby Lenape Indians, who the Quakers as a whole had a good relationship with. Daniel actually learned how to hunt from the Lenape, in addition to other local settlers. He got his first rifle at the age of 12, and by 13 he was regularly providing meat for family meals. One time a panther leapt right at him and he calmly cocked his rifled and shot him through the heart. Yeah, that probably didn’t really happen, but the fact that that story got around is evidence Daniel had quite the reputation as a skilled hunter.
    Daniel never attended school, but family members did teach him how to read and write. Later, his go-to books were The Bible and Gulliver’s Travels. In 1750, Squire Boone moved the family to North Carolina, settling in the Yadkin River valley, near what is now Davie County. This was again an area at the edge of the frontier. Daniel joined the local militia to help defend the settlements from various local American Indian tribes.
    When North Carolina governor Matthew Rowan called for a militia during the French and Indian War, Boone, now 20 years old, volunteered. He served under General Edward Braddock as he led forces to attack at Fort Duquesne, a French military post located at present-day Pittsburgh. George Washington, future President but at the time a young colonial militia leader, was also on that march. Boone worked as a wagoner, meaning he was one of the dudes who drove the horse-drawn wagons. On the trip, Boone met and befriended a trader named John Findley. Findley had lots of experience trading with different groups of American Indians and had traveled quite a bit.

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  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +318

    Daniel Boone sneezed one time, and it caused Chuck Norris to die.

    • @SylviaRustyFae
      @SylviaRustyFae 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ❤💙💚💛💜

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Lol Chuck Norris in a powdered wig.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@StefanMilo Not the visual that first popped in my mind, but now I can't get it out of my head.

    • @imverygerby
      @imverygerby 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Stefan Milo lmao

    • @PierreaSweedieCat
      @PierreaSweedieCat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      But Dr McCoy brought Chuck back!

  • @chrisbanion
    @chrisbanion 5 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    Ahh, the days when a politician could actually end up bankrupt instead of filthy rich.

    • @clintconley7785
      @clintconley7785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The problem with trying to be a honest politician

    • @dannycorsaro546
      @dannycorsaro546 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Back then the lawyers were just as bad as today,they would come with the citizens and take whatever they could

    • @charliemowry774
      @charliemowry774 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your so funny, thanks for the history!!!¡

  • @bobkeay5773
    @bobkeay5773 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    My twin brother and I grew up back in the 40's, about a mile from Daniel's birth place. We hunted, trapped fur and roamed the same land / woods that Daniel did as a child. We played in his old house and swam in the streams that he did. Of course, he was my idol in my younger years!

    • @DebraGill
      @DebraGill 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I live on the other side of the river in union township. :-)

  • @johnshilling2221
    @johnshilling2221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    It is somewhat disputed that Daniel Boone has been quoted as saying, "There is nothing more dangerous than the good intentions of well-meaning people." If I remember correctly, it was during his political career when he opposed new taxes. He insisted that just because most of the people thought it was A-okay, it was still theft to take another's money or property. Government-sanctioned theft, in his eyes, is still theft...
    Truth or myth, this is a story that I really like!

  • @luthahvelken4653
    @luthahvelken4653 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Puma, also known as panthers, were definitely in that area, at that time. Hence the Nittany Lions of Penn state and Pitt Panthers.

    • @ritaharris6113
      @ritaharris6113 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree with that but the picture is of a Leopard. Wtw??

    • @Maxbps88
      @Maxbps88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ritaharris6113 The picture is of a Jaguar. Still not a panther and while Jaguars are known to have been in MidWest/Eastern US, there is no reason why they couldn't have been there. Regardless, if the story was of a panther, they certainly were in this area.

    • @audreyricci6383
      @audreyricci6383 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ritaharris6113 Someone must have gotten their animals mixed up.

  • @feltonmclaughlin3529
    @feltonmclaughlin3529 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Panther was one of the names used interchangeably with Painter, Cougar, Wildcat and Mountain Lion. They were very common throughout the colonies and the Eastern United States until the mid 1860s when they were almost exterminated. They are now making a significant come back up and down the East Coast.

    • @dianethulin1700
      @dianethulin1700 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was under the impression they are all in the same feline family but vary somewhat

    • @garypulliam3740
      @garypulliam3740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dianethulin1700 They are all in fact the very same cat. They adapt to their environments very well. So cougars/mountain lions/wildcats have a coat that blend better with the mountains and is more insulated for colder climates where the Panther's black coat hides him better in the swamps of the Southeast U.S. and is less insulated because of the heat of this area. But they are all the same cat. They can readily breed with one another and produce non-sterile offspring, that is, they are capable of making kittens as well.

    • @cleanixx5343
      @cleanixx5343 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @FoundationSS of Musickkk What? Florida Panther/Cougar, it’s just a cougar with a darker coat that is/used to be more prominent in the south US.

    • @danielthomas9871
      @danielthomas9871 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This video twisted it for sure. Panther's are simply big cats. Mountain Lion is what this video meant to say.

  • @randymoore4027
    @randymoore4027 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    My brother, Wayne (R.I.P.), married Bonnie Boone (also a direct descendant) and they had two daughters. My oldest daughter, Laura, is currently residing in Boone, NC with her husband and four children.

    • @gameclips6727
      @gameclips6727 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Im also related to him I believe he’s my great great something uncle possibly once removed

  • @robertsnyder5149
    @robertsnyder5149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Daniel Boone was my great great, great grandfather. I am decended from Rebecca Boone.I have our family records.

    • @jr-xs9tf
      @jr-xs9tf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      My sixth grandfather married Boone's youngest sister around Yadkinville NC. He's buried in the Deep Creek Friends Cemetery

    • @terrysoule8441
      @terrysoule8441 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Mr. Snyder and I are related- distantly. I am a sixth great grandson of Daniel Boone by way of Nathaniel Boone.

    • @martymcmannis9121
      @martymcmannis9121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But can you throw a tomahawk? If so, could we hunt together? Could you teach me?

    • @SBauer-rn2lj
      @SBauer-rn2lj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Daniel Boone was my fifth great Uncle. My Great Grandmother was Susanna Boone.

    • @pieluvr7362
      @pieluvr7362 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He's related to my family don't know how close but family members have the research

  • @excelisfun
    @excelisfun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    This is an awesome video!!! I loved Daniel Boone when I was growing up : )

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well thank you. I worked hard on this one. It's a bit sad the video didn't end up doing better. But glad you dug it!

  • @tomservo5347
    @tomservo5347 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    During his later years, Daniel's arthritis became so bad that Rebecca would go out with him carrying his rifle (Tick Licker was his name for it.) While wounded in the foot he kept ahead of pursuing American Indians and made it to safety over many, many miles earlier in his life. I think his honesty was what got him into trouble with financiers as he was a man of his word and paid debts, no matter how old. Everyone that knew him said his most striking feature was piercing blue eyes, and while he wasn't an actual Quaker Christianity was always a big influence in his life. Hat's off to his wife Rebecca for enduring his long absences and him dragging their family around constantly. Daniel didn't like being crowded-he called it "elbow room" and he always wanted to see what lay beyond the next hill.

    • @Glicksman1
      @Glicksman1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Brought to you by "The Kentucky Public Relations Firm", telling you just what we want you to believe about things. So long.

    • @busterrobinson1615
      @busterrobinson1615 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And his angel wings were kept concealed underneath his buckskin jacket too eh?

    • @dianethulin1700
      @dianethulin1700 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I agree that Rebecca was long enduring. Daniel was my 6th Great Uncle. When Daniel Boone came back from a long absence there was a new baby when he came home- LOL! She said she thought he had died! He understood, accepted the baby and went on
      I always think it’s funny that yes, I do have an Aunt Jemima

    • @cernowaingreenman
      @cernowaingreenman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think Mr Bean would question the historicity of that statement, but you can believe whatever you want. I personally believe that when he'd go for months and years with the men of the "long hunters", he'd show off his "tick licker" skills.

    • @domfrommelb27
      @domfrommelb27 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dianethulin1700 wow that’s unbelievable your lucky

  • @vincentbelfire2873
    @vincentbelfire2873 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I grew up with Fess Parker as Daniel Boone. I have the complete series on DVD, I love the show, and no one claimed it was true to the real Daniel Boone. It was just a great show for family

    • @jameshamilton8245
      @jameshamilton8245 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I hated that show! There were so many untruths in it.

    • @tonyfrederickson6692
      @tonyfrederickson6692 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      better than this show LOL

  • @colinp2238
    @colinp2238 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Maybe it's his persistence that is the most impressive quality of his character. He was a real boon to the nation.

  • @ricky99la
    @ricky99la 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Aaron Boone's home run in the post season was one of the best moments in baseball history. Interesting fact to learn that Daniel and Aaron are related.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I totally forgot about that!

    • @praxlandy
      @praxlandy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that’s crazy cause i’m a direct descendant of Samuel Boone, Daniel’s brother so somehow i’m related to Aaron Boone

    • @Wow-xp9dp
      @Wow-xp9dp ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@praxlandy hey me too!

    • @praxlandy
      @praxlandy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Wow-xp9dp sup cousin

    • @pmccoy8924
      @pmccoy8924 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@praxlandy Same. Through James, Squire his dads brother. Meaning his grandfather George is all our dude. Sup

  • @Jugivadi
    @Jugivadi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The best part was when Daniel had his TV show and threw that hatchet and split a tree right down the middle. That was pretty cool. I also liked the part about his twin brother Davey Crocket.

  • @freewill1114
    @freewill1114 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    In the journals of Lewis and Clark there is an account of them visiting with Daniel Boone, who had the last settled land on the way up the Missouri River. I think they also visited him on the return trip. He was described as an old man.

    • @lennieslye2355
      @lennieslye2355 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I remember reading in Francis Parkman's book, THE OREGON TRAIL, that he encountered some of Daniel Boone's grandsons at Fort Laramie. They were with a wagon train headed west. Later, that train separated with some of them, the Boone grandsons included, heading up to Oregon, while the other half continued towards Sacramento, with many of them perishing in the deep early snows of Donner Pass.

  • @bengall2872
    @bengall2872 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    As someone finishing their MA in history and who works at the house you used as your background researching and interpreting the Boones, you did a pretty good job. Only a few dates were off. Thank you for working to tell the honest history.

  • @KentuckyHistoryChannel
    @KentuckyHistoryChannel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Simon Kenton is the frontiersman everyone needs to know about. Great video!

    • @paulgabbidon8350
      @paulgabbidon8350 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes he was, he even had encounter with Tecumseh!

  • @Taikamuna
    @Taikamuna 5 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Please wear this hat in every video

  • @TBONESIDEOFLIFE
    @TBONESIDEOFLIFE 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Another well done and very informative video sir. bravo!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thanks so much! I spent wayy toooo looong making this one. :)

    • @francesrude3007
      @francesrude3007 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@iammrbeat I'M happy you did it.

  • @sdnlawrence5640
    @sdnlawrence5640 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Fun fact: we were cleaning out my mom's attic and found my brother's Fess Parker Daniel Boone lunch box from 4th grade lunchbox, from about 1965.

  • @excelisfun
    @excelisfun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    You videos are the best : )

  • @Guinness1836
    @Guinness1836 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    they called mountain lions , panthers in those days

    • @doncarlton4858
      @doncarlton4858 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And the were plentiful in the Appalachian Mountains in those days.

    • @AltaMirage
      @AltaMirage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@doncarlton4858 Until folk like Boone showed up...

    • @troyezell5841
      @troyezell5841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      AltaMirage the cat or your family and livestock? Cat any day, no matter what you say.

    • @AltaMirage
      @AltaMirage 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@troyezell5841 Depends on how many families and how much livestock... there's kinda a lot now, you know. Bit more than in his time. Plus hunting with semiauto black rifles and scopes.

    • @troyezell5841
      @troyezell5841 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      AltaMirage I follow what you are saying but the principle remains the same. I certainly take no pleasure in killing, never have, even when hunting.

  • @pbcoop62
    @pbcoop62 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Some other fun facts about Daniel Boone:
    1. One of the families that followed him to Missouri was the family of another great Western explorer Kit Carson.
    2. He was such a celebrity even the English poet Lord Byron wrote about him.
    3. Nobody is 100% sure where he's buried, Kentucky says he is in a huge memorial they built for him in Frankfort, but he is probably in a small family cemetery near Marthasville, Missouri.

    • @auletjohnast03638
      @auletjohnast03638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Paul Cooper, I saw he's big fence in memorial in Frankfort.

    • @stevecampbell7620
      @stevecampbell7620 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Growing up in St. Charles County Missouri. ( Where Boone Settled Spanish Land) The wherabouts of Boones remains are certainly in doubt. That is another sordid tale of how Kentucky suddenly became interested in relocating Boones remains 25 years after his death. Once His legend grew big enough. The still marked Missouri graves of Daniel and His wife are on Private Property as stated in Marthasville Mo.

  • @climberly
    @climberly 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I've spent a good bit of time exploring the red river gorge in the Boone Forest in Kentucky where he first started exploring. And let me tell you that's really impressive cause the forest there is so thick it's almost like a jungle. It's amazing he managed to find any game at all!

  • @earlcollinsworth4914
    @earlcollinsworth4914 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As a descendant of the Boone family( Daniel's elder brother Samuel) I'd like to thank you for the great job you did on this!

    • @sericat
      @sericat ปีที่แล้ว

      Family 💜

  • @HigherPowerWorldWide
    @HigherPowerWorldWide 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Daniel Boone has been a hero since I was learning to read, and the Television Show helped me to remember his name. I considered Daniel Boone to be a true inspiration for Davey Crockett. Enjoyed this biography on Daniel Boone and has followed many of his descendants for many years, including the singer and the Major League Baseball Players.

  • @egorvongorr5209
    @egorvongorr5209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I enjoyed this immensely ! I never realized in my own life I lived in many places Daniel Boone had been ! Pittsburgh, central Virginia and North Carolina to name a few . Great video ! Thank you ! 🙏🏻

  • @sundayze
    @sundayze 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    My family descended from the "Longhunters" (the Wallen family) who liked to say they taught Daniel Boone all he knew about hunting and trapping. My husband's ancestors lived in Boonesborough and several are listed as having been born there.

    • @dianethulin1700
      @dianethulin1700 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s interesting! I’m descended through Squire Boone and Squire Jr. On the other side of my moms family they are Cherokees. We had two Sachems in the family. We ended up in Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears

    • @ToyYoungLeeCosmicSol8133
      @ToyYoungLeeCosmicSol8133 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s awesome ♥️ As a kid my grandfather told me Daniel Boone was a Native American. Is he part of the Cherokee ? There was always stories of him being so unlike what history portrays.

    • @ToyYoungLeeCosmicSol8133
      @ToyYoungLeeCosmicSol8133 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m decadent of Boone,Bass, Weaver , Anderson , Hall , Pierce, Bizzell, Chavis and Scott. I always wondered if he was part of the family.

  • @KatInHerKat
    @KatInHerKat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I'm directly related to his brother, and through this line found a lot of Norman nobility that were Barons of Hereford in England. Very interesting line!

    • @josepholsen9831
      @josepholsen9831 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I’m related to his uncle George IV. The Hereford nobility line is dependent on proving the Boone’s changed their name from Bohun somewhere along the line and the controversy is in a lack of written proof. Of course I would love it, if it were so, but I remain skeptical.

    • @theartempress6100
      @theartempress6100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm a direct descendant one of his siblings to! I don't remember who though

    • @dianethulin1700
      @dianethulin1700 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m related through his brother Squire Jr. cousins? Yes a lot of nobility including The Norms and the first Anglo Saxon King

  • @darrelllne2136
    @darrelllne2136 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Happy to see this, Thank You....My family is related through Daniel's Youngest Sister Hanna, her 1st Husband was Stuart that was killed while with Daniel, her 2nd Husband was Richard Pennington (our Line, my Father's). On my Mom's ancestral family Lines, our great, ggg Grandpappy was James Trabue of whom was a Surveyor with Daniel Boone.

  • @lewisarmstrongjr
    @lewisarmstrongjr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I Knew Most Of This Already , But You Made A Great Presentation Of It! Very Well Done! :)

  • @smokiemtn.tarheel6515
    @smokiemtn.tarheel6515 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Daniel Boone's great, great, great grandson actually lived in Burnsville NC. His name was Daniel Boone also. He built a small scale train on his property. He was a metal worker by trade. Alot of us kids would go and ride it from time to time. I went to school with and dated his granddaughter. She still lives in a nearby town. She was and still is drop dead gorgeous.

  • @bobsherry954
    @bobsherry954 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Great info!
    Would love to to one on Simon Kenton. He was every bit as interesting as Daniel Boone. He even saved Boones life once. He also was one of the few men on the frontier that could run while loading and firing his rifle. Something that saved his own life.

    • @davidpeters4129
      @davidpeters4129 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Simon Kenton was quite a frontiersman.

  • @dinojay8410
    @dinojay8410 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Who was Daniel Boone? Shucks, he was the brother of Squire Boone Jr. who in turn was the familial line of Boones from which Paladin was descended ... or rather the actor (Richard Boone) who portrayed Paladin in "Have Gun Will Travel" 😉😀

  • @bettymiller1929
    @bettymiller1929 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video! Thx for the info on the books you recommend

  • @4thamendment237
    @4thamendment237 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent and informative, presented in a clear and entertaining way. Strong work.

  • @taytcowell3633
    @taytcowell3633 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you Mr. Beat!!!! Great video! Daniel Boone certainly was an interesting man who did a lot before he was 80. I am writing a college history research paper of his life and your video has defensively helped me guide through the facts and fiction of his legendary life.

  • @sharonallen6921
    @sharonallen6921 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is a wonderful history lesson. Sometimes I think people get so caught up in believing the myth that it holds them back in the future. Some people seem to want a hero - a knight in shining amour to charge in and "fix things". You know, like heroes did in history. However, truth is those heroes were human just like us and they made mistakes or had missteps - just like us. Heroes are the same today as they were back then - they stood up when it counted, did the best they could with what they had and when life knocked them down they got up again. ~Sherrie in South Carolina

  • @dukkha62
    @dukkha62 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    FUN FACT: Daniel Boone was actually born with three ears. A left ear, a right ear and a wild front ear.

    • @charlesmoffitt4811
      @charlesmoffitt4811 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ted Franklin Beleu's book on Boone is awesome. He was a history professor at Murray State in western Kentucky.

    • @troubledsole9104
      @troubledsole9104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That joke was so bad I will use it.

  • @rumplerug8937
    @rumplerug8937 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I was told Daniel Boone killed a bear by choking it. I was lied to!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That was John Cena.

    • @phoenixalvarado651
      @phoenixalvarado651 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Did you mean: Jebediah Springfield?

    • @davetrompeter1172
      @davetrompeter1172 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      More bad news. No Santa Claus or Easter Bunny.

    • @PierreaSweedieCat
      @PierreaSweedieCat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@davetrompeter1172 Daaaaaammmm! This is destroying my childhood!!!!

    • @ryanx9372
      @ryanx9372 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was Leo DiCaprio goofball.

  • @whotyjones
    @whotyjones 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thumbs up as soon as I heard the shade thrown at the History Channel haha!

    • @ryanx9372
      @ryanx9372 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did they do the "Vikings" series?

    • @whotyjones
      @whotyjones 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ryanx9372 They did! I haven't seen it though

    • @ryanx9372
      @ryanx9372 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@whotyjones I gave up after episode 1 of season 3.
      Season one was great as it seemed closely linked to historical facts. Season 2 became very dramatic, shocking and more fantasy-like. S3E1 was about boobs if I recall correctly, so I gave up. I prefer realism to cool stories, but....a lot of people dig it.
      I think it has 5 or 6 completed seasons now /shrug

  • @CynicalHistorian
    @CynicalHistorian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    "let's just jump right into it" -PhillyD

    • @shannonbeat
      @shannonbeat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Cynical Historian He almost said that. Hesitated.

  • @marktombazian6490
    @marktombazian6490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very well done. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you.

  • @custerkiller7670
    @custerkiller7670 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video! Fascinating History. You should make video on the battle of the Monongahela. It is a fascinating battle that I enjoy studying

  • @patrioticconservative422
    @patrioticconservative422 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great video Mr. Beat. 👍

  • @heronimousbrapson863
    @heronimousbrapson863 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I imagine not learning to read or write was quite common in the 18th century.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Heck yeah. We live in literate times. It's great.

    • @martymcmannis9121
      @martymcmannis9121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Depending on who you are. Abe Lincoln taught his mother. Perhaps she was doing some recipes all wrong.

    • @Glicksman1
      @Glicksman1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not being able to read or write well, or to think very well either is common in America in the 21st century.

    • @garyshinn4626
      @garyshinn4626 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have known people in the 20th century who couldn't read or write in Kentucky and Arkansas. They were smart just uneducated.

    • @Glicksman1
      @Glicksman1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@garyshinn4626
      No, not smart, just possessing native but dormant intelligence which, if applied, might make them smart. After all, just how smart can a person be who does not seek even basic education?

  • @DudeFromDust
    @DudeFromDust 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video, thank you!

  • @donstoddard8458
    @donstoddard8458 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey thanks that was really well done. I'll be checking your stuff out I love stuff like this thank you again

  • @bonkloud8182
    @bonkloud8182 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    cool and hilarious video💛

  • @elismith7599
    @elismith7599 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    kinda failed at the whole quaker thing

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      lol I thought about that while making this, too

    • @raydavison4288
      @raydavison4288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Fun fact: Richard Nixon was a Quaker.

    • @AltaMirage
      @AltaMirage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@raydavison4288 Also failed

    • @09sethman
      @09sethman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      i wouldnt say FAILED i would say Rebeled,,he was a smart man capable of critical thought,,not a hive minded drone like so many people are

    • @lindawalker7031
      @lindawalker7031 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Our family lore was that the Squire Boone's kids "married out" and that caused trouble with the Society. The oldest girl is part of my family line. When the second one married out the Society was not happy with the family and eventually they moved away. They philosophy of being fair and respectful, I think stayed with Daniel Boone throughout his life. So..not a fail.

  • @nickj3368
    @nickj3368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love the way you teach, excellent.

  • @devincanada9523
    @devincanada9523 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have a book called "My Father, Daniel Boone." it is a book of interviews with Nathan Boone his son. A man named Lyman Draper did the interview in 1851.

  • @belair57lowriders34
    @belair57lowriders34 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love Danial Boone no matter what. The show brings back so many memories with my bother and mom watching the show as a child. I always wondered if Pat Boone was a relative of Danial Boone.

  • @sifewords6123
    @sifewords6123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Well hello mr beat!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What's goin' on

  • @davestrasburg408
    @davestrasburg408 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Growing up in faraway Finland, as a proud American, Daniel Boone has always been a true hero of mine; l learned that he wore a "coonskin" cap from the song JOHNNY FREEDOM by Johnny Horton (1959), released long before l was born. The history and settlement of the "near West" has always been of interest to me; a great movie is MANY RIVERS TO CROSS (1955).

  • @nancyross3964
    @nancyross3964 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was fun thank you so much I enjoyed it :) More please

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Nancy!

  • @trisgilmour
    @trisgilmour 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    My ancestors were close friends with him and because of that we got to be the first settlers to Tennessee

    • @michaelgreen4183
      @michaelgreen4183 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=40612060&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE3MTE1NTM0OCwiaWF0IjoxNTg4OTc0MzM2LCJleHAiOjE1ODkwNjA3MzZ9.dfNIzdbBzBAAr79pygPOaLxsbOdFecnoA-vzhvVnmfg

    • @billycampbell854
      @billycampbell854 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mine also, 10th generation East Tennessee.

  • @tombrewsaugh1399
    @tombrewsaugh1399 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The actor Richard Boone was also related. My great grandmother on my dad's side was a Boone born and raised in Kentucky. I have been told my father and Pat Boone were 4th cousins.

  • @hatfieldmain
    @hatfieldmain 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting. Thanks for posting

  • @jamesarnett1767
    @jamesarnett1767 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Daniel Boone's first trip into Kentucky was a journey down the big Sandy River in Eastern Kentucky.
    I have a book written by his son and it depicts late in life Daniel Boone traveled through Eastern Kentucky and into West Virginia to go on a bear hunt

  • @neilfrank1726
    @neilfrank1726 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great job. I’ll read your book recommendation. Thanks, a new subscriber.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Neil!

  • @allenwilliams1129
    @allenwilliams1129 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I used to love to watch that in the sixties that was pretty cool

  • @oddlizard1
    @oddlizard1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great job. Thx. I enjoyed this video.

  • @garyteague4480
    @garyteague4480 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Enjoyed this I pass near his Missouri home sometimes

  • @RavinderDahiyard
    @RavinderDahiyard 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Nicely explained. The thing i like ur video is that there is no extra bullshit.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I appreciate that. I try not to ever add filler. Which is why I was surprised when this thing ended up being more than 17 minutes. :)

    • @RavinderDahiyard
      @RavinderDahiyard 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@iammrbeat i rarely subscribe any channel mr. Beat. Before subscribing ur channel i went thru more videos of you. Seriously u r good. Keep going nd stay blessed.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You too and thanks so much!

    • @zabaleta66
      @zabaleta66 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ..... just the usual bullshit!

  • @nickphillips2125
    @nickphillips2125 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great video. Please do a film on George Rogers Clark, especially concerning the founding of Louisville, Ky and Clark county Indiana. Thank you

  • @lorettadoles7592
    @lorettadoles7592 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank You for your research.

  • @hangin-in-thereawesome4245
    @hangin-in-thereawesome4245 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My mother gave me a tin type of a woman whose name was Daisy Boone. She said we were distantly related to the Boone family! Good video!

  • @wargriffin5
    @wargriffin5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    @2:40 Why couldn't that have happened? The Eastern Cougar was native to the entire Appalachian mountain range which includes Pennsylvania.

    • @billmason497
      @billmason497 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cougar yes, jaguars no.

    • @zspens44
      @zspens44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My only issue with a well done video. His diary says panther, which is a common name for Eastern Mountain Lion. This absolutely happened to him or at least plenty of people he knew.

  • @jesse8699
    @jesse8699 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Love the channel and enjoy your presentation to our great, bad, weird America history

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks so much :D

  • @peterhickman9082
    @peterhickman9082 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I grew up in Boone, N.C., and we were OBSESSED with Daniel Boone. I remember we went on a field trip to some museum and the teacher was super into it. Like, SUPER, into it.

  • @SafeChefCookware
    @SafeChefCookware 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No doubt the man is a legend. The video is just awesome. The best video overall I have ever watched and can attest to that. Just amazing, remarkable, and just can't say enough how much I enjoyed it. Well done! Thank you Mr Beat

  • @heronimousbrapson863
    @heronimousbrapson863 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Considering the size of his family, I can sort of guess what one of the chief recreational activites of the frontier was...

  • @BamBamBigelow..
    @BamBamBigelow.. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Mr. Beat, a Historian for the future.

    • @663rainmaker
      @663rainmaker 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      BamBam Bigelow ! Mr Bigalow , Sir I like your work! Would you like to do more ! Debts ? Wyoming History and part of the Louisiana Purchase

  • @jackrock1313
    @jackrock1313 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent work 👍👍👍

  • @heatherbecerra2108
    @heatherbecerra2108 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Showed this to my 5th graders. Thank you so much!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad you found it useful!

  • @AncientAccounts
    @AncientAccounts 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    As a brit, this is someone I've never heard of, but I'm glad I did

    • @daniellewilson8527
      @daniellewilson8527 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am an American and I having heard of him until this video

    • @odysseusrex5908
      @odysseusrex5908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@daniellewilson8527 That's incredible. May I ask how old you are and where you're from?

    • @AltaMirage
      @AltaMirage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As a Brit born in Africa and grown up in Canada... it is part of the problem that we don't hear stories like this. A tamed, patronised, pet people we have become.

    • @danielmalloy6093
      @danielmalloy6093 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Boone was incarcerated by Banastre Tarleton, for treason, but eventually released.

    • @odysseusrex5908
      @odysseusrex5908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@danielmalloy6093 That's very interesting. Do you know the whole story?

  • @alanprather8399
    @alanprather8399 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If I remember right from elementary school field trip there is a Squire Boone rock (now housed in the Richmond KY courthouse) that Squire carved on to communicate with Daniel on the cumberland gap trail when their party got seperated. Just thought it was interesting that's how they left messages then.

  • @TeethToothman
    @TeethToothman ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, Mr. Beat, you're the best!

  • @kuiama23
    @kuiama23 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. Great history.. new subscriber..glad I found u

  • @LandNfan
    @LandNfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’ve always been told my mother’s family is related to Daniel Boone. My mother was a Miller, her mother was a Hudson, and her mother was a Boone. Exactly where the connection goes from there, I’ve never been able to trace, but family oral history has always insisted the link was there.

    • @dianethulin1700
      @dianethulin1700 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I noticed your name Morgan. Squire Boone Jr. married Sarah Morgan

  • @terrysoule8441
    @terrysoule8441 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am a 6th great grandson of Daniel Boone, through Nathaniel Boone and DNA verified with his daughter Susanna Boone.
    I've done a lot of my own research on Daniel Boone and the video is pretty accurate as far as I can tell and I thank you for that. Sure wish you expounded on Rebecca a little more or maybe do a separate video on her. Such a rich history there. Also, the Boone's had their own noble background in England worth discussing.

    • @pieluvr7362
      @pieluvr7362 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's related to my family don't know how close but family has the research

    • @gameclips6727
      @gameclips6727 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same I believe he’s my great great uncle but I have to go check the records

  • @Wolf.88
    @Wolf.88 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent. Thank you.

  • @kennedysingh3916
    @kennedysingh3916 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live in Jamaica, it was the TV show made me know about Boone

  • @soapftw96
    @soapftw96 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Have you read The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Beat? Its one of the most interesting series on western expansion in my opinion with Roosevelt's writing style.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No, but I will gladly add that to my reading list for the summer. :)

  • @coldandaloof7166
    @coldandaloof7166 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "Panther cat" is a common name in Appalachia for the American Mountain Lion, or cougar. Mostly exterpated from the area now, they are still reported occasionally in remote areas of thier historical range. The story of the panther is not that far fetched.

    • @grassroot011
      @grassroot011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Far fetched to today's "eddycated," youth schooled in our gummint run schools. Denigrating all our heroes of the past even George Washington who went through hell and high water to help us gain the freedoms,, we used to have. Getting rather eroded up to now.

    • @johnshilling2221
      @johnshilling2221 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly! The narrator says panther, shows a picture of a jaguar, and then caption say the Jaguars don't exist in the USA? Young, dumb and full of --- "something" --- editors...

    • @wasntmeXYZ
      @wasntmeXYZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eli Bourne : I don’t recall anything in Faragher’s book about Daniel doing that, it is however somewhat plausible.

    • @smokiemtn.tarheel6515
      @smokiemtn.tarheel6515 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      A panther and a mountain lion are two different animals. And yes Panthers are black. And they do sound like a woman screaming. Makes chills run up and down your spine. And yes I have seen them. Saw one sunning on a hillside and another cross the road in front of my car. This one had a cub with it.

    • @musafawundu6718
      @musafawundu6718 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@smokiemtn.tarheel6515
      Pumas/cougars are often called panthers.

  • @jonathanbarnes4597
    @jonathanbarnes4597 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video

  • @odysseusrex5908
    @odysseusrex5908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very good video. When I was in fourth grade, one of my favorite books was about Daniel Boone. For what it's worth, many of the details you mention here were in that book. I remember that when he got back from the two year long hunting trip, his wife presented him with a baby only a few months old. Even I could do the math on that one. I was surprised they included that detail in an elementary school library book. The book gave a tremendously exciting account of the siege of Boonesborough. Boone has been one of my heroes ever since.

    • @superbee-di5tp
      @superbee-di5tp 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Odysseus Rex, are you saying his wife wasn’t very faithful? lol

    • @odysseusrex5908
      @odysseusrex5908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@superbee-di5tp I reckon she got lonely after an entire year. He seems to have understood and not held any grudges.

  • @deogratiaskatabalo7612
    @deogratiaskatabalo7612 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mr Beat, good job. Congratulations. Some of us are following from Tanzania, East Africa. I would like you do video about the history of Africa particularly Tanzania or heroes so to speak of Africa or Tanzania. Once again thanks

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you could compare Tanzania in a video, which country would you compare it to?

    • @deogratiaskatabalo7612
      @deogratiaskatabalo7612 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would compare it to Kenya. Same history, some number of population

  • @SunflowerSocialist
    @SunflowerSocialist 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    You know where my mom moved after graduating from a certain school in BOONE county, MO? SHAWNEE, Kansas. I’m not kidding!
    I should note there were several years in between the final move to Shawnee, but it’s still funny

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Holy crap. Show her this video! Yeah the Shawnee and Daniel Boone were bitter rivals.

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      @663rainmaker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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    • @663rainmaker
      @663rainmaker 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mr. Beat but not with the Bell Tribe...

    • @robertsettle4749
      @robertsettle4749 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@663rainmaker you are are extremely mental, mate. Just make up everything and constantly ramble on.
      TWAT!!!

    • @663rainmaker
      @663rainmaker 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Robert Settle GOD Bless you Sir! Thank you for sharing

  • @angeliaboone9896
    @angeliaboone9896 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow very accurate about Pat Boone, and the baseball players. I'm a descendent! Thank you for your great video😀

  • @dsmith4140
    @dsmith4140 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Daniel Boone was my hero as a kid. My mom took me to his graveyard tombstone in Frankfurt Kentucky. I must’ve watched every Daniel Boone TV show twice anyway I really like your history lesson I learned stuff I never knew before.

  • @jaytrace1006
    @jaytrace1006 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I am not related to Daniel Boone it any of his kin. However, I drank plenty of Boone’s Farm back in the day.

    • @09sethman
      @09sethman 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      one person had to drink a lot of Boones farm..that was some weak ass shit wine..ive drank kool aid stronger than that stuff! you could drink a whole bottle and not be drunk at all.

    • @robertrousseau5080
      @robertrousseau5080 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup!

    • @j.luisserrano516
      @j.luisserrano516 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL So did I Jay as a matter of fact I wish I had a bottle right now

    • @Pridegriffin
      @Pridegriffin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @LYLE KNISLEY oh yeah. I'm 64 and that was my first alcoholic drink. Strawberry Fields or something like that. I have a bottle Iin my refrigerator right now. Bought it in Dec . In case I get an urge to have a drink I want it there. I usually make my own wine now, but I'll make this year's batch this next month. Didn't make any last year and drank up that batch on Thanksgiving Day 2020.

    • @Paulscottrock
      @Paulscottrock 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@09sethman well when your 14 , it’s just the ticket

  • @marcrugani326
    @marcrugani326 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    3:55: Kennn-tuck-eeee!!! I love the enthusiasm.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well it's such a magical place. :)

    • @schlymfrainkestxchieftains2623
      @schlymfrainkestxchieftains2623 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I like the high pitch kun tu cey!

    • @devincanada9523
      @devincanada9523 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just the way that sounded made me want to move there.

    • @pland3845
      @pland3845 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@iammrbeat I live there, it's wonderful!!

    • @tomquimby6432
      @tomquimby6432 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And they almost called it Transylvania, I guess that is where they were going to put all the vampires.

  • @nabas1245
    @nabas1245 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for the true history of Daniel Boone. Apparently he is my 8th great-uncle, and I am related to many of the settlers of Kentucky. Who would have ever thought...

    • @sericat
      @sericat ปีที่แล้ว

      Family 💜
      I am related to him too
      All Boones are related
      (Although my mother carries the name, not me)

  • @familytreenutshistorygenealogy
    @familytreenutshistorygenealogy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great show. He has become so much more than he really was but he is still one of the most interesting folks in our history.

  • @SylviaRustyFae
    @SylviaRustyFae 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video all around. Love that you mentioned Alphonso Boone's legacy. Also surprised to learn that he tried to fight even at the age of 77.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He would have been the only one to fight in both the French and Indian War and War of 1812 if I recall correctly. And yeah, shout out to Alphonso! Glad you dug the video. :)

  • @auletjohnast03638
    @auletjohnast03638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    MR, BEAT, WHEN YOU MENTIONED ALL THE MODERN RELATIVES OF DANIEL BOONE YOU FORGOT ACTOR RICHARD BOONE FAMOUS FOR THE 50'S TV SHOW "HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL".

  • @raydavison4288
    @raydavison4288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another great video, Mr. Beat. Thanks.
    A couple observations, in no particular order: Boone maybe didn't make it to the Rockies, but did get as far as the Platte river on his last "Long hunt" at age 82 (I have no citation for that). The first successful "settlement" in Ky. was Harrodsburg. Groups of longhunters under Henry Skaggs made several journeys to Kentucky in the 1750s & 1760s, eventually settling there. Hundreds of his descendants still live in Ky. Ol' Dan'l seemed to only come home long enough to knock up Rebecca & then headin' fer the hills as soon as the task was completed. Kentucky history is a tragic story. It was once a Heaven on earth & a refuge for the long suffering Scots-Irish, English, Welsh, & Germans who defied the British ban on colonies west of the mountains. But all the timber was cut, the game wiped out, & the mountains leveled. Now it is one of the poorest, most backward states in the Union. See John Prines song, "Paradise".

  • @sarahsherratt6242
    @sarahsherratt6242 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for explaining my family history!

    • @BG-xn5tu
      @BG-xn5tu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wait whhaaaaatttt

    • @sericat
      @sericat ปีที่แล้ว

      Family 💜