not the little girl who daniel boone rescued after she was kidnapped by indians. d james finmore cooper took it from the headlines for his last of the mmohicans. but there's another story about suzie boone, an older daughter. she's one of two women when boone first hacked his way through the boone trace, the cumberland gap and hacked a trail into kentucky, she was one of two women there. this young irishman -- suzie was 16 or 17, a young irishman came to boone and said i want to ask for your daughter's hand in marriage. and daniel very diplomatically tried to dissuade the irishman. let's say, suzie was -- what's a good way to put it. she was a sporting girl, suzie was. but anyway, the irishman would not be dissuaded. they married and a few weeks later he returns to daniel boone and he's kind of complaining about, and i'm quoting here, suzie's frolics and waves with other men. and daniel looks at him, son, i think i told you, you've got a trot father, a trot mother and you expected a pacing colt. i don't think you're going to get one. so anyway, that's a -- just ano

daniel boone as our guide. man was just everywhere. everything that happened, every big historical event either boone or his family was there. now, daniel boone was also a man out of his time. he did not believe the indians were heathens, were savages. and when i say that he had a 21st century sensibilities, it came as a bit of a shock to tom and i. and i think tom is much more erudite at explaining that than i am. so if you don't mind, they're probably don't know what i'm talking about, so i'm leaving it up to you to clean up my mess. >> i will do what i can. something that you referred to about daniel boone as our main character, but this is not a biography of him, maybe i can invite the viewers behind the curtain a little bit to what writers and certainly us two as writers experienced. daniel boone was not our first thought by any means to be a main -- a main character, the main character in this book. we had -- you know, one of our books, perhaps the book that we've gotten over the years the most feedback ab

it was daniel boone. who was the leader of that the fort that everybody turned to for leadership and they they survived that siege that if boonsboro had fallen. we might be writing a very different history of the outcome of the american revolution and most people we understand who think they know daniel boone had no idea. what a pivotal role he played the american revolution. that that he seemed to have this the zelig like a way to to show up. i mean there was there was daniel boone serving with george, washington in 1755 under the british general braddock during one of the most biggest defeats that a british army ever suffered in the in the americas they barely both of them washington and boone barely made it out of there with with their lives. um, and we also found humor with daniel boone. he was a man with good sense of humor. you know someone he would like to tell a good story and oh, you know one of the one of the stories that already people who have read the book already, even though he was publishe

daniel boone is familiar. everybody knows who daniel boone was. he's a great american frontiersman. think of him in the era of davie crockett. but it's weird because daniel boone and davy crockett. davie crockett was at the battle of the alamo. when was that? 1840s? we're talking about 1775. this is when daniel boone's single most famous act of pioneering took place. he led a party of settlers in the wake of dunmore's war through the cumberland gap and into central kentucky. and one of the first towns founded in central kentucky was boons boonesboro. his most famous act occurred before the united states existed. it's fascinating that we don't -- in the popular imagination, we don't place him in time here. we don't think of the american revolution as a pioneering era. but the american revolution is the first pioneering era and the first intrepid western explorers/occupiers swung into action in the revolution and in kentucky. i want say a little bit more about daniel boone in just a minute, but hold that thought. just to kind of talk quickly about the war experience in central kentuck

daniel boone is familiar? everybody knows who daniel boone was. he is a great american frontiersman. think of him in the era of davey crockette. it is weird because daniel boone and davey crockette are generations apart. right? davy crockette was at the alamo. can anybody place this date and time? when was the battle of the alamo? 1840s? we are talking about 1775. this is when -- this is when daniel bonino's singest most famous act of pioneering took place. he led a party of settlers in the wake of doesn't moore's war through the cumberland gap and into central kentucky. and one of the first towns founded in central kentucky was boones borrow. it was founded in 1775. it is weird to think of daniel boone as a revolutionary war hero, right? his most famous act occurred before the united states even existed. it's fascinating that we don't -- you know n the popular imagination, we don't place him in time here because we don't think of the american revolution as a pioneering era. but the american revolution is the first pioneering era and the first int

boone who was the grandson of daniel boone were business partners and neighbors. and you can see they had the most luxurious houses at that time in the area. now, boone was appointed indian agent and left for colorado. and so william had his uncle join him in the business and they operated the store together, and they prospered there on the santa fe trail. they were very successful. they gross over $260,000 from selling and loading freight onto some 2,000 wagons. mamie returned from west port to baltimore in 1860. however by the spring of 1861 the civil war had started, and as you know missouri was a slave state so to speak, and the bernards were southern sympathizers. in fact, mamie and her friends had gathered in a sewing circle to hand stiff and send to the confederate men enlisted in the confederacy. in the spring of 1862 -- and his mexican frighters traveled east on the trail to west port and arrived in a carriage pulled by a team of white horses in advance of his freight wagons. the arrival was very welcomed given the run rest that was occurring there in west