This early reader biography tells the life story of legendary frontiersman, Daniel Boone, and his legacy and importance to early America. Beginning with his youth in Pennsylvania where Boone learned to hunt and explore the wilderness, this work continues with his move to North Carolina, and his eventual expedition to Kentucky. His important work trailblazing a path through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains opened early America to the west and resulted in many pioneers moving into the open wilderness west of the Appalachians. This simple introduction to Boone shares how his courageous and difficult work moving west had a tremendous impact on early American expansion into Kentucky and eventually further west.