PART 1-DANIEL BOONE AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST 

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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

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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.

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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@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.

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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.

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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.

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Me too man! Sometimes I’d watch it if I was home sick from school. Back when the History Channel was actual history! 😂

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Glad you enjoyed it

that was fess parker haha

they got most of those episodes on youtube

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 am also descended from that line of Morgans.....

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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

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Wattah lovely poem tho..and cow bell.

Thank you

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'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.

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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.

What an amazing family history to be a part of, Mr. Demaree!

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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?

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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.

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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.

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).

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Thank you!

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.

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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!

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There is a decendants day at Ft boonesborough every summer.

Hey me too.

My parents live in silver springs FL...

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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.

Same here....but I don't live in KY

Same here 💕

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Some say he Hebrew Israelites

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You and everyone else here 😄

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I’m related to Daniel Boone through my great grandma

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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.

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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

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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!

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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 . 🤠🖖

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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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@@357bullfrog2 Thanks for watching!

Same here. Not related to anyone who was or is well known as far as I know.

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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

@Brad Parker yea I went to RA Jones an Boone county high school.

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you never know after all Daniel did a lot of traveling.

Maybe they are!

I go all the way to Adam, and Eve.

Genealogists are well aware of the numerous descendants after a century or so

Sure is! Witnessing History recently conducted a bus tour of The Wilderness Road in Virginia and Kentucky!

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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.

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Thanks for watching and commenting! Kentuckians related to Boone are rightfully proud of the connection; he was a great American.

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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.

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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!

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.

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"If you kids don't keep quiet i'm turning this wagon caravan around and there'll be no free land for anyone!"

@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.

Richard Boone was descended from brother of Daniel Boone.

Yes, the Morgans are related to the Boones through one of his sisters, Sarah. Thanks for watching!

@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 Is the rum named after him?

Idk how many times great-grandfather

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