I am Daniel Boone,born November 2, 1734 – September 26, 1820,i was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made my one of the first folk heroes of the United States. im became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which i was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. In 1775, my blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky, in the face of resistance from American Indians, for whom the area was a traditional hunting