The character of Boone is a composite of many of the western men whose courage and curiosity led them westward. It took strong men, and men with a solid set of personal values and principles to deal with the challenges of western life and western living and Boone typifies those traits.
Boone is a wanderer, a man always in search of something more. Orphaned as a young boy, raised by a gambler uncle and schooled in the skills necessary to survive in the west, he has a fondness for the courageous and a resentment of those who try to take advantage of others. Loyal to his friends, feared by those who would be his enemies, Boone's stories are the stories of many of the strong and adventurous men of the west of the late 1800s.
The character of Boone is a composite of many of the western men whose courage and curiosity led them westward. It took strong men, and men with a solid set of personal values and principles to deal with the challenges of western life and western living and Boone typifies those traits.
Boone is a wanderer, a man always in search of something more. Orphaned as a young boy, raised by a gambler uncle and schooled in the skills necessary to survive in the west, he has a fondness for the courageous and a resentment of those who try to take advantage of others. Loyal to his friends, feared by those who would be his enemies, Boone's stories are the stories of many of the strong and adventurous men of the west of the late 1800s.