This document summarizes Daniel Boone's life and career as an American pioneer and explorer. It discusses how Boone was born in 1734 and became famous for exploring and settling what is now Kentucky in the late 18th century. It describes how Boone blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, where he founded Boonesborough, one of the first English settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. The document then provides a short story about Boone and some companions being captured by American Indians for a week before Boone and one other man escaped at night to reunite with others from their original group.