PART 1-DANIEL BOONE AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST
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- This video documentary take you back in time to the battleground that was the Kentucky frontier; it traces the life of Daniel Boone from his birth near Reading, Pennsylvania in 1734, through his years in Kentucky and to his death in St. Charles County, Missouri in 1820. Against the backdrop of the American Revolution, Daniel Boone explores an ordinary man living in extraordinary times who was destined to settle and defend the beautiful, but often fiercely unforgiving, wilderness of Kentucky that became known as "the dark and bloody ground".
Recipient of a 2015 Bronze Telly Award.
BEST documentary about Daniel Boone I have EVER watched. Just a wonderfully moving story about the man, his accomplishments, his family, his sacrifices, and the enormous legacy he left behind. An American Hero.
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@Sue Taft Thanks for watching!
A white mans history. Daniel Boone was nothing more than a poacher and war criminal.
@@bipslone8880 same thing can be said of any group of people. It's easy to always say the winners shouldn't have won.
@@bipslone8880 don't talk about my 10+ great grandfather like that lol
My family went into kentucky with Daniel Boone to settle there. Some of my family is still there in Berea.. I’ve always loved to hear stories about Daniel Boone.. I love this video.
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So, your family were trespassers on Indian land.
What an honor
@debranchante3661
Hannah Boone is my 7th grandmother.. I still have family in Kentucky.
As a Dutch man i'm just an outsider looking in; America's history fascinates me. Thank you very much for sharing, sir. Appreciate it a lot.
Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.
Hello from Kentucky, where Witnessing History is headquartered. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Seconded - Dutchman here too with a huge fascination for American history - particularly notable European explorers, surveyors, settlers and native populations and their interactions. Kentucky's settlement is an inspiring story in and of itself within the wider tapestry of the exploration and settlement of the North American western frontier.
My favorite Daniel Boone anecdote is when he was asked if he'd ever been lost in that wilderness with no roads, no signposts and no maps. Reportedly his response was, "nope I never was lost but one time I was mighty confused for three or four days".
I'm a Dutchman with a passion for American history who has seen countless of hours of documentaries and films on the subject. This is absolutely a very well-made documentary. Kentucky's history is fascinating. You have made a beautiful channel here covering stories that are deeply inspiring and at the least worthy of being remembered. I will certainly contribute and eagerly anticipate any new uploads.
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I spent a summer working in Cincinnati. It was quite a summer. I was asking coworkers about what I could do on my weekends. I was told to get myself a copy of the frontiersman. I did and the rest of my summer never had a dull moment. I learned about Simon Kenton. He was made of the same cloth as Daniel and they eventually knew one another.
Both men were extremely athletic and could reload their rifles on a dead run. If you’re interested in stories like this get yourself a copy of the frontiersman. It’s more like a documentary...Enjoy
What a fantastic summer read! Here at Witnessing History, it's one of our favorites!
Is that by Allan Eckert?
@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 could you possibly tell me who the Author of "Frontiersman" is ? Is it one from Teddy roosevelt ? Thank you. Much Respect. 🤠🖖
The author of "Frontiersman" is Allan W. Eckert. He wrote a series of books on the early frontier in America. Although written like novels with lots of imagined dialogue, they are still very good reading and very good history. @@cowboykelly6590
@@cowboykelly6590 See the comment below. Allan W. Eckert.
I read Daniel Boone's biography. Much different than Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone was absolutely the legend that history makes him out to be.
@Burt Lancastet Okay Burt, you took this discussion in a direction I did not anticipate. Long before the Europeans came to America the Indians fought between themselves. The killed for hunting grounds and to assimilate other tribes into their own. I'm not saying the Indians were bad people I'm just saying they were simply human. They did not have the technology to wipe out the buffalo but they were known to drive forty thousand buffalos over a cliff. Again I'm not saying they were evil but simply human living a human life.
@@doreekaplan2589 I strongly doubt that they did at one time. And even if that's true it was done for legit reasons. Possibly disease or even accidental mishap on hunters part but no way intentional just for the sake of killing. I don't buy that.
@@roscoep.coltraine6344
There is much archeological and historical evidence that this was normal practice for tribal societies worldwide throughout history.
Logic would dictate that this was not common practice, but it certianly was not unheard of.
The people that dislike this video are those that try to judge our ancestors by todays standards. THIS DOESNT WORK PEOPLE. AM SORRY THAT I HAVE TO BRING THIS TO YOUR ATTENTION!
Robert Payne Well said. It’s sad that this even needs to be stated.
Also the people who don't know the real history but have made up their own in their weak minds.
Holding ppl from the past to today’s standards is the most ridiculous of things, and the very height of ignorance. I am happy to know there are others who understand this.
Haters are just jealous of those that have little fear.
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I couldnt stand any type of history as a child, as a adult its all i wanna watch and read about.
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Its an ageing process lol
That’s a win!
I liked history. The teachers were not very enthusiastic...which related to dull boring class time.
As a child you had a future.
I'm deeply thankful for your history presentation. I grew up watching The Daniel Boone TV series every afternoon...his stories inspired me a great deal. Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
Me too man! Sometimes I’d watch it if I was home sick from school.
Back when the History Channel was actual history! 😂
I’ve watched this at least 12 times. Part one and two, I’ve down loaded it to my iPad so I can watch it when I go camping in the Daniel Boone National forest. Nothing brings it home more than playing this in the back ground and listening to Kent Masterson Brown narrate the life of Boone with such clarity and historical accuracy. You all have made a serious production here and I am disappointed that you all have such few videos. I understand that these productions are major overhauls, but you’ve got to keep making them, with and only with Kent Masterson Brown... it would be such a shame if you all stopped making these great productions... they are exceptional. The fact that you all have a an old painting of the Buffalo crossing the little Miami River and then cut to the Buffalo actually crossing a creek that looks very similar, is outstanding.. I can’t imagine how long your film crew had to set up and wait for that shot... that’s why it’s great.
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@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 thank you for responding. I will definitely make a contribution.
I'm a first cousin to Daniel Boone, several generations removed, obviously. We are both descendants of his grandparents George Boone III and Mary, Daniel through his father Squire and I through Squire's (Daniel's dad) sister. Several of my Boone and Webb cousins and Abraham Lincoln's ancestors through his Lincoln line intermarried in the mid 1700's. I also have a direct ancestor who was with the 1755 Expedition against Fort Duquesne. Unlike Boone, who was a teamster from NC, my ancestor on the expedition joined up as an infantry soldier in one of the buckskin-clad colonial Virginia companies attached to the 44th Regiment of Foot. He, Daniel, and a young Virginian named George Washington survived the disaster at the crossing of the Monongahela that summer.
Fascinating family history! Thank you for watching and sharing this information with us here at WHEF. You have many, many cousins among the commenters here on the WHEF channel. We really should organize a get-together when the COVID restrictions are lifted! Perhaps we could persuade Mr. Brown to do another Kentucky tour and conference, with the Boone cousins participating! Anyone who likes this idea, please let us know by contacting us here at WHEF! As always, WHEF is in need of your donations, in any amount, to continue our efforts! Go to www.witnessinghistory.org/donate to see how you can give!. Thanks and have a wonderful day!
Despite my EARLIER remarks...I find this a truly Fascinating tale and the scenery quite breath-taking...please, please, do watch it, and learn.....wether you are American, British, or whatever......
Well I'm from Indiana got Cherokee in me my grand parents . Proud of it . Maid me strong yet today ❤
Proud to be related to the Boones through my 6X grandpa Squire Morgan of Lancaster County Pennsylvania and West Virginia. At the time of Boones move west, Missouri was the frontier, as Kentucky was in Boones youth. I've heard it said that if Daniel could see chimney smoke rising in the next valley, miles away, he was of the opinion that the country was getting too crowded and it was time to move on. My great grandfather Daniel Morgan, Grandson of General Morgan, followed his people to Missouri after the civil war and died there from his wounds suffered in the civil war. His great granddaughter is my mother.
I am also descended from that line of Morgans.....
I remember in the 1950s as a kid we pretend to be Daniel Boone , and the Indians , it was lotta fun , you know that was a good way for kids to learn about our American history, I wish kid had that opportunity to learn about American History, it enriches each one of us , to know the background of our country,
Yea, i dont know anything about my ancestors. I was told i am related somehow to an indian princess. My last name is Boone. Im in Michigan, which has a lot of streets and cities that have indian names.
I love documentaries, but never before found anything about him
My grandfather was named after this man of history ! His name was. Was" Daniel Boone Warfel" and I Thomas Daniel Yaudas. Was given my middle name. Daniel by my grandfather
I have been an Oregonian since I was six (in 1972), originally from Ohio. Just South of Portland is a little berg called Wilsonville, which has a close tie to the Boone Family. It was originally known as Boone's Crossing and was founded by Daniel Boone's son or grandson (I can't remember which, but the timing of Oregon settlement suggests grandson. On of the main roads from Southwest Portland to Wilsonville is still Boones Ferry Road.
Kit Carson is Daniel Boone’s grandson
Love to now know that, Thank you. 🤠🖖
Hi from Ohio also. Related to Lincoln from his uncle Mordecai who's sisters or his children married many Boone families members. DNA says 3rd cousin 4x removed to Lincoln.
I told a 17 year old grand daughter that Daniel Boone was her Nx Great Uncle. She didn't know who Daniel Boone was. Shows how absolutely poor our public schools have become. They teach all sorts of other garbage of dubious truth or use, but nothing of our true historic figures.
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What gets me is how there are many teenagers today who can not read a clock.
@@unadin4583 Times change, no pun intended! Thanks for watching and commenting!
I was born in loisville, ky 1945, my dad was in france, at the end of the war, came home to add to his family. We grew up in lou. Ky went to school, we moved to cleve, ohio. Finished school, married homeschooled 2 children, the grad. Got pying jobs married , had their own families. L love kentucky, ❤😊
My great x5 grandpa was with Daniel Boone in 1775. Bartlett Searcy and his brother Reuben Searcy were axeman and longknives building and protecting Boonesborough. Bartlett was one of the 8-10 men who rescued Jemima Boone and the Callaway girls. Bartlett was killed by the Shawnee on June 15th, 1790.
Scott Searcy
One of my great grand fathers was Mathias Harmon X7. He and his brothers established Harmon station in KY, years before Boonsboro was established. And he and his brother's Also helped Daniel establish Boonsboro. Mathias's Father was Hendrick Harmon who saved Mary Engle when she escaped from the Pawnee. Mathias and Daniel were what is known as long hunters And they are among the first Americans to see KY, Its believed today Mathias was the first American to see the Mississippi. He and Boon were friends.No dough our grand fathers knew each other. This history is so cool. Truly part of the fabric of America.
Cricket Prints my. Family are descendants of Daniel Boone .my cousin has the papers to prove it!
That's pretty Amazing Stuff. Most all of us love History. I am a Bradley & we didn't know until I Googled one day! That Bradley is Scottish. The Bradley Family Scotland. Story goes back to the Pharaohs. & the Hostages of nine.
But your family story is certainly an American Story
@@lbbradley55 The Vance family is also scots Irish and scots. I believe my family came from ulster Ireland to the US. And my 3ed Great grand father was the first cousin to Nancy Vance who was Devil Hance Hatfield's Mother.
@@birddog7492
That's very Interesting.
However I am not totally educated on them & their stories.
If you have any information I would be interested. If you enjoy the same. Google Bradley Family Scotland. & Look until you find the completed story of the Hostages of Nine & well I just stumbled upon this one day & my father's Family didn't know we were Scottish. ! Ha... So check it out.
I encourage anyone to read it. I am direct descendant of 4 Pharos & king of Spain & we are the family of the Nile. Our first Name.. !
The most interesting story that I don't know why a movie hasn't been made. The Hostages of Nine. Our Family Clan. BRADLEY'S
we're the first Special Force. We Conquered 9 Countries . & Took each king & queen infant Sons. Hostage & told them if they ever raised arms against us they would kill there own son. As we Raised them as our Own.... Wow
I love American history
My grandmother before her passing in the 80’s did all of the genealogy for my family and The Boone’s are my families first to settle in the America’s.
I am incredibly proud and fortunate to have this bloodline.
I'm related to the Bryan's on his wife's side cousin😂👍
@@danielk8149
You’re related to losers and inbreeds.
And the moral standards
Hello relative
My father did a DNA test. Relates to Boones by abe lincolns uncle Mordechai who's sisters or his children married many Boones. Crazy how related they were.
My ancestors were part of the 30 man team building the wilderness road. Thanks for the documentary.....
What an amazing family history to be a part of, Mr. Demaree!
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I am from Philippines watching right now. Thanks for uploading it's a very great documentary of Daniel Boone. I was encourage to watch this by my American boyfriend from Cape Coral, Florida.
Glad you enjoyed it
I love these documentaries so much and I love the narrator’s voice.
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Boone has been a hero of mine. Wish that Hollywood would make a great movie about his life. 👍🕹
Hahahaha Holly wood mess it up! Daniel was a multi-great uncle to me via Granny Rebecca I believe
The very recent 4 part tv series Frontiersmen: The Men Who Built America featured a great deal of Daniel Boone as well as Kit Carson and others. The whole series is very well produced and worth watching.
They did it’s called the Alamo!
An accurate one. Yes it is a good story. Except hollywood today would never portray him as intending peacefulness and the shawnee as waring torturers to every one they came across.
@@kinzieconrad105 that was Davy Crocket.
*IT STARTS AT **5:38** , Y'ALL!!*
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Thanks
Wattah lovely poem tho..and cow bell.
Thank you
My ancestors died at the Battle of Blue Licks KY in 1782 alongside Boone and his son Israel who was also killed. This was a major blunder that left the men trapped, and is considered the last "battle" of the war.
Nice which means our family's knew each other because I have Boones blood in my family
If you have Boone relatives u most likely have Lincoln relatives also. They were intertwined.
Daniel Boone is my 5th great uncle on my mothers side. thx for the video.
Daniel Boone was a man. Yes a big man.
With an eye like an eagle and as tall as a mountain was he.
Daniel Boone was a man. Yes a big man.
He was brave, he was fearless and as tough as a mighty oak tree.
From the coonskin cap on the top of ol Dan to the heel of his rawhide shoe
The rippin'est roarin'est fightin'est man the frontier ever knew.
Daniel Boone was a man. Yes a big man.
And he fought for America to make all Americans free.
Daniel Boone
What a Boone. What a dooer. What a dream come a truer was he.
that was fess parker haha
they got most of those episodes on youtube
I'm heading to the US in August to study at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Super excited to learn more about Kentucky's culture and history!
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Now that was an excellent documentary, the way it should be done. Excellent work!
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Love this! William Russell is my Great Great Great Great Grandfather on my father's mother's side.
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I think this is a top documentary. One of My relatives William Holly fought with Daniel Boone at Point Pleasant VA (Later W.Va.) Thus gives me many points to look for my long lost relatives.
My Jenkins and Lee family talked about Daniel Boone. I have a letter from my 5th generation Jenkins grandfather talking about he, Daniel, and another, signed their name on a tree in Cumberland, Kentucky. With black panthers as common as house cats. My 7th Jenkins grandfather served along side of George Washington so the world is smaller than we think.
Indeed it is. My GGG Grandma was a Reynolds. 😉
Thanks for watching and adding these comments. It's amazing how many of Boone's descendants remained in Kentucky!
This is the best documentary I have ever watched on Daniel Boone's life , very well done , Daniel Boone is in my family tree and I'm very proud of that, thank you very much !
This account of Boone paints a rosy picture of him but that is not the whole truth, the REAL history of Boone.
@@pipedreams57 well, im interested in your source before i waste my time watching this
I cant find much info about him, for some reason.
I have same last name. Im soo lame i want to learn about him because i wanna know of im related, especially since im related to an indian princess. I dont know how far she goes back or HOW we're related. I dont know much at all about my ancestors.
@@jenmb2679 There is a book called "That Dark and Bloody River, Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley" by Alan Eckert that is taken from historical documents that paints a whole different story of Boone and also George Washington.
@@pipedreams57 thanks!
I well remember my surprise on seeing a contemporary painting of Daniel Boone, the uncanny likeness between Boone and English actor Peter Cushing, A likeness so profound that they could have been twins!
If you search his genealogy, you will find that Danial Boone was related to many royal families via the Scottish side of his family that begins in America with the arrival in Virginia of Margaret Ross, born in 1599 in Rossshire, Scotland, which connects him to the Scottish kings and earls and counts as well as Norwegian (jarls/earls and the Lord of the Isle), Danish, German and French aristocracies (i.e. Charlamagne).
How interesting. We would love to know more about that.
Almost everyone in Europe has ancestry from Charlemagne; that's just a matters of numbers/statistics. Charlemagne wasn't French. He was Frankish, which is ancestral to Low Franconians (southern Dutch, Flemish and Rhine Germans). He was a native to modern-day Limburg (today's southernmost Netherlands and northernmost Flanders, Belgium).
In those days, they made some real class documentaries. Quality does not follow a linear path, regretfully.
My 6x great-grandmother, Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson was the oldest sibling of my 7x great-uncle, Daniel Boone. My birth paternal great-grandmother's paternal 2x great-grandmother, Sarah (Wilcoxson) Hagins was the daughter of Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson.
There is a decendants day at Ft boonesborough every summer.
I’m Canadian, but Daniel Boone seems to be one of those ppl who come around once every few thousand years or so.
Thank you!
I wish we had a few Boones and Crockets today. Couple of Bowies and a Roosevelt wouldn't hurt either
Yes, we are bereft of men.
Treason should be defined as waging war on human liberty and the concept of natural rights. The communists will claim, already have, that anyone fighting for liberty is treasonous since 'they' represent the state(s).
The SCOTUS has ruled the cops don't exist to protect anyone. The SCOTUS is NOT the final arbiter of our rights! WE ARE!
The sheepdogs work for the shepherds so they can shear and eat the sheep. Their job is to protect the state, enhance their revenue and enforce their laws. The wolf is a disinterested survivalist.
When the govt. or the mainstream newswhores are releasing/covering something it's about manipulating the message.
We are livestock to them.
Let’s put things in perspective:
The Marxist globalists or whatever they really are blatantly stole the highest elected office on the planet, the greatest seat of alleged power or empire in known human history and NO ONE lifted a finger to stop it.
The sheeple of this dead republic fully deserve what’s coming. Those who claim to love freedom or whatever deserve it even more.
The 2nd Amendment without the militia is a wingless bird.
The only question that matters now is “Why aren’t we hunting them?”
I’ll never forget the preacher who told us “I think it’ll all be over by 1985.”
Time to vote from the rooftops.
FK: The lies of legislation and history and the cowardly morons that make it possible
www.freekentucky.com/the-lies-of-legislation-and-history-and-the-cowardly-morons-that-make-it-possible/
No sign ever knocked down a wall.
FK: It’s much worse than the newswhores will admit
www.freekentucky.com/its-much-worse-than-the-newswhores-will-admit/
Yeah ya’ll just keep yapping.
And a couple of Nathan Bedford Forrests. 🤠🤠
They would be out of place now. And if they lived now, they would have been brought up in our time, with our systems and practices. Everything is relevant, including time. Every generation wishes for days gone by. But the reality of it is that we actually have it good. We Americans are spoiled. We hear people talking about the country failing. But in reality, we aren't failing. Our ties with our allies are strengthened. Especially with NATO. We have record low unemployment. But there are some bad. Rising prices. Which can almost all be tied up to greed. Corporations are turning in record profits. They have raised prices to match inflation, yet it turns out, those raised prices are going to profits. They weren't losing money. Our biggest issues is all political propaganda. But got the average American, we have easier lives than most other countries except for maybe Europe.
Teddy, not Franklin
FDR help promote this socialist agenda destroying America
@@chrispfeifer7628 wow, I wish the world was as rosy as you seem to think it is. How old are you?
My dad’s people are from eastern Kentucky, but my grandparents left there and brought my dad and his siblings to northern Indiana, but my dad’s people still there, I have lived there for two years in the mid-80s, great place to visit but hard place to make a living these days, we are mostly Cherokee Indians blood line, we came from these people who Concord this land.
The “cane breaks”, which here is called a reed like plant, is actually a bamboo. The only bamboo native to USA.
Canebrake www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canebrake
The Boones built a beautiful 4-story starter castle in Defiance, MO when they made the move. Itstill stands. Honestly, it reminds me of some of the gorgeous upscale houses in Hill Country, TX, with its limestone construction. Major difference? THE GUNPORTS! 😮😮😮
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Thank you for the upload! I can't believe there's no actual documentary on daniel boone. Only 3 mins clips and a TV show.
This is a well made documentary of Daniel Boone.
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My great grandfather (x5) was married to the wife of Daniel Boone's brother's brother-in-law's sister's second cousin's half niece. Thanks for sharing this video.
I don't know if you're telling a joke but I'm lmao anyways
Did any of them pass out at 31 flavors last night? I guess it's pretty serious.
One of the best history documentaries ever!!
Thank you! We are humbled and honored!
Thank you for this history about Daniel Boone. We call him uncle Boone. Our family history was traced to him and Abe Lincoln. Cousin Abe. Our family is from Bucks Township also. Today I live in Kentucky.
Same here....but I don't live in KY
Same here 💕
This history presentation is by far the best information I’ve heard. Much like the words of my earthly Father. I greatly appreciate this
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This was a really interesting doc. Thank you so much for posting it here.
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I went to Daniel Boone high school and live 2 minutes away from the family’s original homestead which has been preserved in Douglassville Pennsylvania
It's beautiful up there. Thanks for watching!
Excellent documentary. We are studying the history of Brazil and making some associations with the history of the USA.
Congratulations on the work.
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In the '80's used to ride my motorcycle from Lexington over to Boonesborough Park, and walk along the terrain by the nearby river. Looking at the past footsteps of history.
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Imagine to explore that continent in those days. Untouched wilderness with oceans of forest and water ways. Amazing. Yes I know natives was there since the ice age. But nevertheless must have been a true adventure.
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The majesty, beauty and the pure adventure had to be what kept them on the trails in spite of the dangers! Whole lot different than today's video gamers.....
@@cathymccall9199 I sometimes wonder if it is all that different, those who explore digital spaces are still seeking out new frontiers, they just aren't physical frontiers, there are very few of those left, and even fewer accessible to the average person.
Loved this video. Recently discovered I'm related to Daniel Boone so I'm trying to learn more about em.
Hi thanks for saying or even having to suggest such a thing we as a family immagrated to Australia as a child i used to love the series and movie of Danial Boon he fired our imagination and couldnt wait untill the next episode we came from Holland to Australia by an old army retriever a boat that was anything but suitable for young families 6 weeks on the ocean and as today problems with the red sea we went the long way round through panama canal anyway i just thought i’d put that in so as a young girl 10 years old i loved all those pioneering stories especially from America cow boys and Indians that wonderfully movy “ gone with the wind “ and many settler movies and Indian stories not long ago actually there was a whole series of true stories about white women being held captive by Indian tribes very interesting and truly educational this particular lady gave a very detailed account of her i think 2 year stay with this particular tribe i fordet which but its great that one can look up all that history because these stories are not made up by holywood but real experiences by real people and America was and is so much part of Australian stories and history anyway so Daniel Boon was very much loved by Australian kids thankyou for this historical account and now i’ll watch it with great interest have a great 2024 a healthy one 💟💙☮️🕉️☸️🌈🌈☔️☔️🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘💙💙💙💙💐🌻😍🌹🍀🌏🦋🙏🙏🙏
Big Jim. While James was being tortured he cried out. I thought you were our friend. Having previously been to Boone's Cabin. Ruthless.
Thank you so much for sharing..great video
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@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 I enjoy that video ..and I didn't know that about Daniel Boone.im from Australia have a great day
For all of Dan'l Boone's prowess, he was saved by Simon Kenton, 6'6" @ 250 lbs.
Simon Kenton is a great character in history as well! Thanks for watching!
Yes he was and they were good friends. Simon Kenton was saved by Simon Girty so what goes around comes around.
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Kenton was twenty years younger than Boone but was a contemporary of his. And yes he was said to be a giant of a man. Also a scout and friend of George Rogers Clark
I am proudly a 6th great grandson of Daniel Boone. Thank you for the videos
Kentucky is an absolutely beautiful state😊
Yes u are correct
@@rayjohnson4741 I hear them talking of the wilderness roads, when in fact the first roads were initially wide long turkey trails often five to eight feet wide,, widened and cleared made an easy road for wagons etc,...a lot of history is embellished and slightly told into appropriate narratives, the early Americas was thickly forested, I forget the millions of buffalo's and wild cats, pumas, cougars, panthers ie ane extremely hostile place. So their stories are revered and we get the jest, it's more than any one person can tell. God bless America, my home sweet home.
I am a direct descendant of the Callaways , also founders of Ft Boonesborough.
My wife is a direct descendant of Daniel Boone.
I can’t play golf and she can’t navigate.
But we are proud of our heritage and marvel at how damn tough these people were.
Thanks for letting us know! You all are surrounded by cousins on this channel!
I am related to Richard Callaway. Would like to know if you have information about him.
People HAD to be tough back then or they never would have survived!
Live near Reading, Berkshire 2020, just thought I would mention it in passing.
We live in Fort Blackmore Va. Daniel Boone's army-post. Alot of history here in Virginia around Daniel Boone
Sure is! Witnessing History recently conducted a bus tour of The Wilderness Road in Virginia and Kentucky!
Boone county Ky here. 41 yrs.
@Brad Parker yea I went to RA Jones an Boone county high school.
Boone's statement about good land and Brush Runs ... led people to gather there ... and later formed the Brush Run Revival ... which was an important moment within Christians history
i love america and all and the people. from west sussex
Thanks, James. All the best to you and yours.
Daniel Boone was truly a upman who was a believer in the Highest of God I not read of such of America man he sure was a Kentucky he will stand. as you and I will before almighty God in the great a while Bless Ye all 🙏❤️
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In the trip of the nine families to Kentucky, how many times do you suppose the kids asked, 'are we there yet'???
"If you kids don't keep quiet i'm turning this wagon caravan around and there'll be no free land for anyone!"
Good grief, there must be 30 people commenting that they are related to Daniel Boone, under this video. Give it a rest, the emphasis is on Daniel Boone.
Thanks for watching and commenting! Kentuckians related to Boone are rightfully proud of the connection; he was a great American.
I'm not related to Daniel Boone on any side, just thought ya'll should all know that. But I do respect and love his character and life!
Thanks for watching and commenting! We at WHEF share your enthusiasm for Boone and none of us is directly related either!
I live on the licking river where as I understand it Boone travelled here a lot and at big salt lick right south of me. Lots of history and I enjoy y'all bringing it to life for the younger generation. Many thanks
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Same here. Not related to anyone who was or is well known as far as I know.
My ancestor wasn't Daniel Boone. My family didn't get here from Wales until 1895.
But one of my uncles was a Mr. Morgan. He had a government position in Jamaica for awhile.
Yes, the Morgans are related to the Boones through one of his sisters, Sarah. Thanks for watching!
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Excellent presentation. Daniel's sister Hannah Boone-Stewart was my ancestor.
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Are they buffalo or Bison? This in reference to the open grasslands’ non-human species life of Kentucky.
But it must have been fun for Boone to have been in the wild in the pristine condition it was in before industrialization and urbanization.
I can imagine the wild frontier mountain ranges had real moments of absolute freedom and joy. Alive when the American war against England broke open and the war between the French and English and the Indian Wars were three revolutions happening simultaneously; as 20 million acres of land in southwest Kentucky was being sought for purchase from the Cherokee by a single merchant corporation. The Earl of Dunmore and Royal Governor held claim to that land ordering surveys be done for defenses as needed on boundary lines. The Cherokee were ruled by a Tory Governor in Kentucky who took possession of a section of land that belonged to all tribes of this region was likely the real deal, a land grab.
It appears the British made mercenaries out of the Shawnee to fight the Americans. But the three campaigns against the Shawnee and other village communities built on the common ownership of land would break down by an invasion and violence in the near future from settlement expansion and slaveholders in a conflict of three ways of life. The Shawnee were protecting their way of life as hunters and claimed land both the Americans and the British wanted according to the range of the hunting grounds the region encompassed.
Thanks for watching and commenting! Buffalo are bison!
This is a great documentary with the exception! GOD created this earth when he created all things. Daniel was wise to understand . Nothing cannot create anything
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Thanks for a finely detailed account !
Hopefully he will mention Simon Kenton who if Boone was without Boone never would have lived that long. Simon Kenton saved Daniel Boone's life.. My grandfather was from Somerset KY His first name was Boone.
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@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 check out “The Frontiersman “ by Allen Eckert
It is part of “The Winning of America” series. I’ve read all 5 books 3 times.
Dear uploader, these are fantastic! Very appreciative. Any chance you have any other interesting educational documentaries?
Please check out the nine documentaries on the Witnessing History Education Foundation Channel. There are podcasts, too, for your enjoyment! Thanks for watching!
The people of Davie County NC would like to correct you as to where Boone grew up. His fathers cabin was on Bear Creek in now Davie County. Mocksville, the county seat has a large library full of items of interest to researchers.
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Daniel Boone is my great.great,great grand daddy. I am decended from Rebecca Boone.
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I’m related to Daniel Boone through my great grandma
Great film,and the narrator sounds like James Stewart.
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We need a new movie about him! Something epic and proper, along the lines if The Revenant that details just how raw and gritty life was back then. Also that paints the natives as they really were; how they could be savage and scary, not peaceful animal huggers that a Disney cartoon would have you think.
The Indians were both quite frankly. Not saying them committing massacres was justified, but if someone arbitrarily invaded my lands, told me to leave/assimilate OR ELSE, I’d have fought like hell too.
The natives were extremely spiritual and intertwined their lives and nature’s wonders together as the basis of their religious beliefs.
It’s human nature to fight to the death for what is inherently yours and has been for generations or hundreds/thousands of years.
A very good documenary here about Daniel Boone
Thank you. We are so pleased you took a moment to provide your opinion. We appreciate you!
Silver Springs Fl. Thank you for posting, very well put together!
Hey me too.
My parents live in silver springs FL...
One of my ancestors William Grent married Daniel Boones sister Elizabeth "Betsy" Boone.
Thanks for watching and commenting. Lots of your cousins have commented here as well.
I have Quaker Roots!I must have gotten some of the DNA handed down!Fairly humble,modern religion has never taken hold!I read the Bible but don't quote it or push it on Others!My understanding of the Quaker Way IS ,It's not the Church or the Bible but What's in Your HEART!Life IS a Great GIFT,So leave this World a Better Place for You having Been IN IT!
I am in East TN from the Louisville & Friendsville area. There is still a small seminary & a "Friends Meeting House" here. Congregation 300. It appears they are now outnumbered by Mennonites now.
Y'all get that? Dr. Thomas Walker traveled in 'ol Kentucky', BEFORE Daniel Boone. AND the "path" each took was through FLAT LICK. I live not 3 miles from there, in the county seat of Knox, Ky --- Barbourville. A fine documentary on a subject close to my own hometown.
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Sarah Cassandra, Daniel's oldest sister, is my 6th great grandmother
@Sue Taft Not sure wtf a "man jack of a person" is supposed to be, but I DO get paid to do genealogical research and genetic genealogy work. My ancestors include several colonial families like Boone/Bryan/Callaway/Morgan. Perhaps you, too, may be able to find out more about your own history if you spent less time being an ass to strangers online for no reason and actually doing research and learning things.
@@syndicornpnw Maybe you could help me find the names of my Great-Grandmothers parents.Her maiden name was Boone.I have tried but keep hitting a brick wall because most births from 1887 were at home.
@@donnavigil377 The best thing I can recommend is connecting with a genealogy website that has a lot of colonial descendants, like Ancestry. There's a very good chance that once you can go back a couple of generations that your research will intersect with other known research on family trees. You can see most of the family trees that can be found on Ancestry on FamilySearch.org without having to pay for anything, since Ancestry itself is a paid site. They are both owned by the mormon church, but FamilySearch has a LOT more records that you can view for free without having to pay anything vs Ancestry. Otherwise, it can be a steep learning curve... but there are also excellent colonial genealogy fb groups, too!
@@syndicornpnw Thank you so much for the information.
Daniel Boone was a man a real man
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Great man. I've lived in KY most of my life and never knew that much about Daniel Boon until now. Been reading "Boone" by Robert Morgan which is an excellent biography. I wish the folks who made "Hostiles" would make a move about Daniel Boone. It would kick ass.
Thanks for watching and commenting. We love Morgan's book, too!
Are the Morgan's of pa related to Lincolns & Boones? Abe's great- grandfather buried near Uniontown, Pa.
OUTSTANDING ! Thank you for this .
Much Respect . 🤠🖖
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@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 no problem, I'll be Commenting on the upcoming part 2 . I just can't STOP , IT'S THAT GOOD ! Like I said...Much Respect . 🤠🖖
I drive through Daniel Boon National Park near Fort Boonesborough all the time
The area has the most beautiful hill top farms you have ever seen
I would love to stop every mile and take a pictures and make post cards from them
With a blanket of snow it looks like a Christmas card
These people were tough as nails
I love KY, WV and Ohio
It’s so beautiful here
I live and grew up along the Ohio River
I could and still can see the hills of KY from my back yard
I went to Shawnee State University
The Ohio River has a lot of history with the underground RR
There are several places here in Portsmouth Ohio
Were slaves were kept safe till they could get to the northern part of Ohio
Because along the river on the Ohio side was still dangerous
There’s a Church and house right up from me used for the underground RR
I know if I were born in that day
My home would have been open for any runaway slaves seeking freedom ❤️
I wouldn’t want to live
anywhere else
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Id love to see more videos like this dealing with long hunters and fur trade mountain men its my favorite period of history and I personally do alot of the same things like rendezvous and living history
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Daniel Boone was my 8th cousin 8x rem, Rebecca Bryan was my 2nd cousin 8x rem..I was born in Sullivan Co., TN.
. . . And I'm directly related to Adam; or was that Eve and we shan't forget about dear great grandmother Lucy ;) Seriously, though, that's pretty cool you know your ancestors. I'm just jealous!
After over 30 yrs of working my genealogy I would hope so..
@@ccrum1127 There is a decendants day every summer at Ft booneborough, the first land surveys done in ky were by daniel boone for my family......explorekyhistory.ky.gov/items/show/824?tour=59&index=18
I live in Bluffcity. Would like very much to hear more on your family history.
That's very interesting.My family came from a now non existent town deep in the Smokies of east TN.In 1934 the government ran all the families out of the little town known then as "Razor"down into the lands that is now called Happy Valley community.(Tallassee,TN).a couple of Boone families was among them.I knew a Daniel and Dan Jr in my childhood.(I'm almost 60)Several Boone's lived in the valley.This is in Blount Co and borders N.C (Tail of the dragon US highway 129).A very beautiful place to grow up.
Just wanted to learn about Daniel Boone. My mother did my ancestry through my paternal grandmothers side and she tracked it back to George Boone iii. Pretty cool vid. Thanks!
Idk how many times great-grandfather
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He'll always look like Fess Parker to me.:)
A horrendous travesty in the telling of history. I loved Fess as a kid too. Shocking, tho the lies that TV writers did. (&still do)
Yeah but so does Davey Crockett.
Fess would've looked better in a wide brimmed hat.
Dr Thomas Walker, as to what I've read, is the first white explorer to come into Kentucky in the 1750s. That said, I am sure there were those before.....that just didn't get reported on. I'd like to think that if I were alive back then. I would have taken off walking and not been able to stop......just seeing what is beyond the next bend....on every path to the Mississippi river.
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There were 2 slaves with the boys. One escaped and the other was captured only to be killed days later to stop the bickering over who was to receive the money from his sale. Issac Crabtree was wounded but escaped. He and the one slave were the only survivors. He was my ancestor. He later helped defend Boonesboough. His older brother was in the crew that cut the wilderness road.
Thanks for sharing this story. You must be very proud of Issac Crabtree. Wow.