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Title
Engraved
portrait
of
Daniel
Boone
photograph
Subject
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820
Chappel, Alonzo, 1828-1887
Portraits
American frontier
Folk heroes
Time Period
1860s
Description
This
photograph
is
of an
engraved
portrait
of
frontiersman
Daniel
Boone
(1734-1820)
sitting
on
rock
with his
rifle
and with his
dog
beside
him. The
engraving's
lower
border
has
Boone's
signature
.
American
artist
and
book
illustrator
Alonzo
Chappel
(1828-1887)
created
the
original
painting
ca.
1861
.
Chappel
portrays
Boone
as an
older
man
with
white
hair
but
still
rugged
and
purposeful
.
Daniel
Boone
was a
legendary
man
of the
frontier
in
early
America
. He
is
most
famous
for his
exploration
and
settlement
of what
is
now
Kentucky
. He was
born
near
Reading
,
Pennsylvania
, but in
1750
the
family
moved
to
North
Carolina
.
Boone
participated
in the
French
and
Indian
War
,
barely
escaping
with his
life
during
General
Edward
Braddock’s
attack
on
Fort
Duquesne
.
Boone
went
to
Kentucky
in
fall
1767
and
spent
the
winter
exploring
and
hunting
. The
signing
of the
Treaty
of
Fort
Stanwix
(1768)
by the
Iroquois
Indians
encouraged
Boone
to
return
to
Kentucky
in
1769
. In
1775
,
Richard
Henderson
, the
head
of the
Transylvania
Company
,
hired
Boone
to
assist
him in
establishing
a
settlement
in
Kentucky
.
Boone
and his
settlers
arrived
at the
site
that they had
chosen
for their
community
by
April
1
,
1775
, and
immediately
began
to
build
Fort
Boonesborough
,
one
of the
first
settlements
west
of the
Appalachian
Mountains
. He
spent
the
next
several
years
exploring
,
surveying
, and
trapping
. He also
faced
constant
opposition
from
local
Native
Americans
.
During
the
American
Revolution
,
Boone
played
an
active
role
against
the
British
and their
Indian
allies
in the
Ohio
Country
,
accompanying
both
militia
forces
and
regular
army
troops
north
of the
Ohio
River
on
several
occasions
to
secure
this
territory
for the
Americans
and to
open
it
up
for
settlement
. In
February
1778
,
Boone
and a
few
settlers
were
captured
by a
band
of
Shawnee
Indians
at
Blue
Licks
(Kentucky)
and
held
hostage
at
Old
Chillicothe
.
Boone
spent
the
next
five
years
in
various
government
positions
,
including
sheriff
,
deputy
surveyor
, and a
delegate
to the
legislature
. The
frontiersman
also
continued
to
assist
the
American
military
in the
struggle
against
the
Native
Americans
in the
Ohio
Country
. He had
laid
claim
to
large
tracts
of
land
in
Kentucky
during
the
1770s
, but he had
filed
the
paperwork
establishing
his
ownership
incorrectly
. The
end
result
was that he
lost
all
of his
Kentucky
lands
. By
1799
he had
left
Kentucky
for
Missouri
,
where
he
died
in
1820
.
Boone
did
much
to
open
the
lands
west
of the
Appalachian
Mountains
,
including
the
Ohio
Country
, to
white
settlement
. In
many
respects
, he was
typical
of the
British
colonists
and the
settlers
who
succeeded
them
after
the
American
Revolution
.
Many
of these
people
viewed
the
west
as a
land
of
opportunity
and
endless
possibility
. They
faced
innumerable
hardships
to
expand
the
borders
of the
United
States
of
America
.
However
, in
many
cases
,
entire
Native
American
tribes
were
displaced
and
removed
due
to the
settlers
'
desire
for
land
.
Creator
Alonzo Chappel (Artist)
Date of Original
ca.
1861
Collection
Daniel
Boone
Source
SC
2175
Format
Picture
;
Black-and-white
photograph
;
Engraving
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
AL06329.tif
Image Height
2048
Image Width
2048
File Size
41156812 Bytes
Notes
OHS
Negative
Number
:
OHS
6376
Date created
2011-08-05
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