00:00Come listen to my story and listen to it well I'll tell you of a great man who served his
00:17country well his name was Daniel Boone and he wore a coonskin hat and his clothes were made
00:23of buckskin now what do you think of that Dan was born in Pennsylvania in 1734 in colony days before
00:31the Revolutionary War he was famous as a hunter while he was still a boy and the hours he spent in
00:39the forest they were his greatest joy did you hear that that was Daniel Boone with his long rifle out
00:47hunting a bear listen he got him Daniel Boone shot that bear that was when Daniel was only 15 years
01:01old yes Daniel Boone was the greatest hunter and explorer this country ever had now sometimes Dan
01:07hunted bears and sometimes wildcats and other times the timber wolf Daniel Boone loved to explore too
01:23and he was one of the first pioneers to see the Blue Ridge Mountains and the bluegrass region of
01:28Kentucky oh Daniel knew the forest he knew the forest well the mountains and the rivers and where the
01:36animals dwell he was handy with a rifle and with a hunting knife and he loved the open spaces the
01:43cleanest kind of life of course there were other dangers in the forest in those days besides wild
01:50animals there were Indians and one day when Daniel was exploring a cut in the mountains where Kentucky
01:56Virginia and Tennessee meet an area known as Cumberland Gap he knew there were Indians ahead unfriendly Indians
02:05quickly Daniel turned around and silently he cut back on his own trail but the Indians were behind
02:11him too Dan was surrounded Dan fought like a wildcat but the odds were just too great he was captured and
02:23taken to the Indians camp the Indians knew Daniel's reputation and they tied him to a tree post to prevent his
02:29escape that night when the Indians were asleep Dan found a sharp piece of bark right back of where his hands were tied slowly and painfully he rubbed the leather cord against the bark until at last he was free then as quiet as a cat he escaped the Indians followed but Daniel covered ground so fast that he left their swiftest runners behind
02:59settlers from back east at Cumberland Gap during the Revolutionary War Dan was a major in the American army and his great knowledge of forestry and wood lore came in handy when he fought the British and the Indians on the British side but he was friendly to many Indians because
03:14Daniel was Daniel Daniel was a fair man to red men and to white and he never used his rifle unless he had to fight he didn't like big cities he kept on moving west and he helped to build our country and tame the wilderness
03:32when the Revolutionary War was over Dan kept heading west until he made his final home in Missouri there he would sit under a tree during the day and settlers and Indians came to him with their problems for he was a man of great justice and simple democracy his tree became famous as Boone's Judgment Tree often Dan sat under it and remembered his old battles and adventures and he would fondly dream of his hunting days
03:59when he hunted the big bear
04:02and the savage wildcat
04:06and the wild timberwolf
04:08and now you've heard my story there is no more to tell
04:18the story of Daniel Boone who served his country well
04:22his clothes were made of buckskin and he wore a coonskin hat
