On this day in 1734 Daniel Boone was born. Boone was an inspiration for not just the romantic legends but the Romantic poets. In Byron's Don Juan he is imagined as "happiest amongst mortals anywhere," if not as Adam in Eden:
Crime came not near him--she is not the child
Of solitude; Health shrank not from him--for
Her home is in the rarely trodden wild,
Where if men seek her not, and death be more ... FULL STORY »
