The Adventures of Daniel Boone
A history report on the frontiersman who helped open Kentucky, survived captures and sieges, and kept going even when things got brutal.
Wax museum speech
Our class did a living wax museum: everyone picked a historical figure and froze until someone dropped a coin, then we gave a short speech in costume. I was Daniel Boone. This is the video of my part.
The file on this site is a compressed MP4 so it stays under our host’s 25 MB upload limit and plays inline in Chrome, Safari, and other browsers. I still have the full-quality camera file at home if I need it for class.
What’s in the paper
- Boone’s early life in Pennsylvania and Virginia, his family, and leaving the Quakers (Society of Friends).
- Hunting, his flintlock rifle, and how people picture his coonskin cap versus what he actually liked to wear.
- Kentucky, marriage to Rebecca Bryan, expeditions, battles, and being captured, including the rescue when his daughter and two other girls were taken near Boonesborough.
- Salt Licks, capture by Shawnee and French allies, Blackfish, the long siege at Boonesborough, and Boone’s later years in Missouri.
- Lessons from his life, like having courage when you lose people you love and when enemies keep coming.
Full report
The complete paper with formatting and pictures is in the Word file my teacher graded.