Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day

No. 446

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Brenda Elthon
Oct 26, 2023
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It was the first of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness for a time, and left my family ... to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky. — Daniel Boone1

Illustration from the 1896 edition of James Femimore Cooper’s “Last of the Mohicans.”

The market for the Daniel Boone myth began in the 1780s,…

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