Who were the 38 men that followed Daniel Boone to Kentucky?

Answer 1

Boone first reached Kentucky in the fall of 1767 when on a long hunt with his brother Squire Boone, Jr. (1744–1815). While on the Braddock expedition years earlier, Boone had heard about the fertile land and abundant game of Kentucky from fellow wagoner John Findley, who had visited Kentucky to trade with American Indians. In 1768, Boone and Findley happened to meet again, and Findley encouraged Boone with more tales of Kentucky. At the same time, news had arrived about the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, in which the Iroquois had ceded their claim to Kentucky to the British. This, as well as the unrest in North Carolina due to the Regulator movement, likely prompted Boone to extend his exploration. In May 1769, Boone began a two-year hunting expedition in Kentucky. On 22 December 1769, Boone and a fellow hunter were captured by a party of Shawnees, who confiscated all of their skins and told them to leave and never return. The Shawnees had not signed the Stanwix treaty, and since they regarded Kentucky as their hunting ground, they considered American hunters there to be poachers. Boone, however, continued hunting and exploring Kentucky until his return to North Carolina in 1771, and returned to hunt there again in the autumn of 1772.
On 25 September 1773, Boone packed up his family and, with a group of about 50 emigrants, began the first attempt by Americans to establish a settlement in Kentucky. Boone was at the time still an obscure hunter; the most prominent member of the expedition was William Russell, a well-known Virginian and brother-in-law of Patrick Henry. On October 9, Boone's oldest son James and a small group of men and boys who had left the main party to retrieve supplies were attacked by a band of Delawares, Shawnees, and Cherokees. Ever since the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, American Indians had been debating what do to about American settlers pouring into the region. This group of Indians decided, in the words of historian John Mack Faragher, "to send a message of their opposition to settlement...." James Boone and William Russell's son Henry were captured and gruesomely tortured to death. The brutality of the killings sent shockwaves along the frontier, and Boone's party abandoned their expedition.[7]
The massacre was one of the first events in what became known as Dunmore's War, a struggle between Virginia and primarily Shawnees of the Ohio Country for control of what is now West Virginia and Kentucky. In the summer of 1774, Boone volunteered to travel with a companion to Kentucky to notify surveyors there about the outbreak of war. The two men journeyed more than 800 miles in two months in order to warn those Americans who had not already fled the region. Upon his return to Virginia, Boone helped defend American settlements along the Clinch River, earning a promotion to captain in the militia as well as acclaim from fellow citizens. The war was brief, ending soon after Virginia's victory in the Battle of Point Pleasant on 10 October 1774. In the peace treaty that followed, Shawnees under Chief Cornstalk relinquished their claims to Kentucky.[8]


George Caleb Bingham's Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap (oil on canvas, 1851–52) is a famous depiction of Boone.
Following Dunmore's War, the Cherokees were the only American Indians who still had a claim to Kentucky. In the 1775 Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, Richard Henderson, a prominent judge from North Carolina, purchased the Cherokee claim in order to establish a colony to be called Transylvania. Henderson's purchase was in violation of North Carolina and Virginia law, as well as the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited private purchase of Indian land. Henderson may have believed that a recent British legal opinion (the Camden-Yorke opinion) had made such purchases legal.
Before the Sycamore Shoals treaty, Henderson had hired Boone to travel to the Cherokee towns and inform them of the upcoming negotiations. Afterwards, Boone was hired to blaze what became known as the Wilderness Road, which went through the Cumberland Gap and into central Kentucky. Along with a party of about thirty workers, Boone marked a path to the Kentucky River, where he established Boonesborough, near present-day Lexington, Kentucky, which was intended to be the capital of Transylvania. Other settlements, notably Harrodsburg, were also established at this time. Despite occasional Indian attacks, Boone returned to the Clinch Valley and brought his family and other settlers to Boonesborough on 8 September 1775.

Answer 2

Yep, even as i turned right into a baby my brother and that i used to play Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, i changed into Dan and we may strive against on the Alamo. He had a coonskin cap it really is why he changed into continually Davy.

Answer 3

the MINUTE MEN!