Challenges Daniel Boone Faced When Beginning The Westward Expansion

The Challenges Daniel Boone Faced When Beginning the Westward Expansion The constant arrival of new immigrants to the American colonies found the new world becoming increasingly crowded, Daniel Boone took it upon himself to expand our nation westward. Challenges of crowded colonies sent Daniel Boone into the unexplored wilderness for the peace of nature he desired. Consequently, differences between cultures created great sources of conflict for Daniel Boone and the natives he encountered on his exploration. After all the exploring was done Daniel Boone found himself absorbed into the bureaucracy the new settlers had brought to the new lands he forged from the wilderness. The embodiment of a true American hero, Daniel Boone, represents the

“As a boy, Daniel helped his mother tend to the crops and farm animals. The family kept chickens and a herd of dairy cows. Daniel often helped his mother drive the herd to a lush meadow a few miles from their house. Boone later said his love for the wilderness came from "being a herdsman and thus being so much in the woods" when he was a boy” (Santella 6). Our nation continued to grow in population and the wilderness Daniel Boone loved was harder to find. Accordingly, Daniel Boone continued to seek the wilderness, only now he must move further west. “Daniel loved the wilderness, and his love of the wild land was probably the force behind his desire to explore Kentucky. In the meantime, more and more settlers were coming into the Yadkin valley. Daniel decided to move his family farther upstream to escape what he considered to be congestion” (Hargrove 45). The congestion continued to follow him throughout all of his explorations. The wilderness that Daniel Boone loved was moving west and to the east it was slowly disappearing from his

“In 1774, he was frustrated by growing hostilities. The rising violence between Indians and whites on the frontier culminated in a series of events that came to be called Lord Dunmore's War. Fear and anger on both sides rose to a new pitch. Hunters in Kentucky shot Indians on sight, and Indians attacked whites without warning” (Morgan 140). Nonetheless, in 1775 Daniel Boone brought his family with him into the settlement of Boonesborough, Kentucky, a settlement he became the leader of, due to his hunting, surveying and his ability to fight the Indians. In July 1776, Local Shawnee and Cherokee tribes, attacked the fort, three of the girls in the fort were captured, among them was Daniel Boone’s daughter, Jemima. Daniel Boone, along with eight other men left the fort in pursuit of the Indians and retrieved the girls back home. Consequently, in 1777 Daniel Boone himself was shot in the ankle during another Indian attack at Boonesborough. Furthermore, “1778- Daniel Boone was captured by the Shawnee Indians along with other men who were making salt. He was adopted into the tribe as the son of the War Chief Black fish. He escaped after nearly five months in captivity” (Kampar). Nevertheless, this created Daniel Boones understanding of both the angry, violent Indians and the friendly Indians, opening his eyes that maybe there