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Boone

 (bo͞on), Daniel 1734-1820.
American frontiersman, folk hero, and central figure in the settlement of Kentucky.
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Boone

(buːn)
n
(Biography) Daniel. 1734–1820, American pioneer, explorer, and guide, esp in Kentucky
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Boone

(bun)

n.
Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer.
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His defence was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he could not account in any way for the presence of the missing gentleman's clothes.
His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which is familiar to every man who goes much to the City.
One mistake had been made in not arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes during which he might have communicated with his friend the Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and searched, without anything being found which could incriminate him.
Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before been anything against him.
"If the police are to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone."
Louis.- Conjugal Discipline of a Half-Breed.- Annual Swelling of the Rivers.-Daniel Boone, the Patriarch of Kentucky.-John Colter.-His Adventures Among the Indians.-Rumors of Danger Ahead.-Fort Osage.-An Indian War-Feast.-Troubles in the Dorion Family.- Buffaloes and Turkey-Buzzards.
Here they met with Daniel Boone, the renowned patriarch of Kentucky, who had kept in the advance of civilization, and on the borders of the wilderness, still leading a hunter's life, though now in his eighty-fifth year.
Like venerable moss-bearded Daniel Boone, he will have no one near him but Nature herself; and her he takes to wife in the wilderness of waters, and the best of wives she is, though she keeps so many moody secrets.
Even Allie Boone, whose frocks came from Paris, was wont to look with longing eyes on that rosebud concoction as Anne trailed up the main staircase at Redmond in it.
The Indians kept their word in return, Boone wrote.
Synopsis: The best-known name in trophy big game hunting, Boone and Crockett, teams up with the world's most knowledgeable deer experts to present the definitive resource for the whitetail hunter in "Boone and Crockett Club's Complete Guide to Hunting Whitetails: Deer Hunting Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Success in the Field".
Despite a career pinnacle that has been denied to all but three women, including legendary actress Bette Davis, who resigned after two months claiming that she was "just a figurehead," Cheryl Boone Isaacs, now twice-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (better known as the Oscars) asserts that it has been a lifelong journey, not a silver-platter appointment to the exciting, glamorous and coveted post of president.