Photo of the Day

No. 446

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,…