# 1357 - 1968 6c Daniel Boone
Issue Date: September 26, 1968
City: Frankfort, KY
Quantity: 130,385,000
Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Lithographed, engraved
Perforations: 11
Color: yellow, deep yellow, maroon and black
This stamp remembers the American pioneer who settled in Kentucky and founded Boonesboro. His frontier exploits and his adoption by the Shawnee Indians earned him a place in American Folklore.
Death Of Daniel Boone
Boone was born on November 2, 1734, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Though he had little formal education, his father taught him to be a skilled hunter and how to survive in the woods. When he was 15, the family moved to North Carolina, and Boone began selling his furs to local traders.
Sponsored by land spectator Judge Henderson, Boone made his first trip toward the Gap in 1767 but failed to pass through. On his way home, he ran into one of the previous explorers and decided to try again. Together they set out with a small party in May 1769 and followed the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky.
Boone helped open up the path, which became known as the Wilderness Trail. In 1775, he led a group of colonists to present-day Kentucky and founded Boonesborough. It was one of the first white settlements west of the mountains. Thanks to the efforts of Daniel Boone and several other woodsmen clearing the Wilderness Road and Cumberland Gap, over 200,000 settlers had made their way West by the end of the 18th century.
After the war, Boone opened a tavern and worked in a variety of other businesses in Limestone, Kentucky. He participated in the Northwest Indian War and helped to negotiate a truce and prisoner exchange. He was then voted to the Virginia State Assembly, but had financial troubles and sought a fresh start in Missouri, then part of Spanish Louisiana. He would spend his final years there with his children and grandchildren before his death on September 26, 1820. Several towns, counties, and schools across the country would later be named in his honor.
The legend of Daniel Boone grew because of exaggerated stories published in dime novels. He once said, “Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.”
Issue Date: September 26, 1968
City: Frankfort, KY
Quantity: 130,385,000
Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Lithographed, engraved
Perforations: 11
Color: yellow, deep yellow, maroon and black
This stamp remembers the American pioneer who settled in Kentucky and founded Boonesboro. His frontier exploits and his adoption by the Shawnee Indians earned him a place in American Folklore.
Death Of Daniel Boone
Boone was born on November 2, 1734, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Though he had little formal education, his father taught him to be a skilled hunter and how to survive in the woods. When he was 15, the family moved to North Carolina, and Boone began selling his furs to local traders.
Sponsored by land spectator Judge Henderson, Boone made his first trip toward the Gap in 1767 but failed to pass through. On his way home, he ran into one of the previous explorers and decided to try again. Together they set out with a small party in May 1769 and followed the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky.
Boone helped open up the path, which became known as the Wilderness Trail. In 1775, he led a group of colonists to present-day Kentucky and founded Boonesborough. It was one of the first white settlements west of the mountains. Thanks to the efforts of Daniel Boone and several other woodsmen clearing the Wilderness Road and Cumberland Gap, over 200,000 settlers had made their way West by the end of the 18th century.
After the war, Boone opened a tavern and worked in a variety of other businesses in Limestone, Kentucky. He participated in the Northwest Indian War and helped to negotiate a truce and prisoner exchange. He was then voted to the Virginia State Assembly, but had financial troubles and sought a fresh start in Missouri, then part of Spanish Louisiana. He would spend his final years there with his children and grandchildren before his death on September 26, 1820. Several towns, counties, and schools across the country would later be named in his honor.
The legend of Daniel Boone grew because of exaggerated stories published in dime novels. He once said, “Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.”