Daniel Boone: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born	c.November 2, 1734 • Pennsylvania
Died	c.September 26, 1820 • Missouri
Awards And Honors	Hall of Fame (1915)

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Two-story stone house with white trim and a covered porch, surrounded by trees and grass, identified as the Daniel Boone Homestead near Reading, Pennsylvania.

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George Rogers Clark, portrait by J.W. Jarvis; in the Filson Club collection, Louisville, Ky.

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