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Daniel Boone is a revolutionary, and he helped create America.

He is America’s pioneer hero who lived in North Carolina for 21 years. Indeed, our Yadkin River valley in where Daniel Boone learned to be “Daniel Boone.” And when he marked his famous route, Boone Trace, into the Kentucky wilderness in spring 1775, he began America’s First Westward Movement, which continued hand in hand all throughout the American Revolution. Daniel Boone’s story during the American Revolution is part and parcel of the epic tale of America gaining its independence 250 years ago.