On September 26, 1820, Daniel Boone, American frontiersman and explorer, died at the age of 85. An excerpt from the article:
"Daniel Boone was an American explorer and frontiersman who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap, thereby providing access to America's western frontier.
Who Was Daniel Boone?
Daniel Boone left home on a military expedition during the French and Indian War, and in 1769 Boone led an expedition that discovered a trail to the west through the Cumberland Gap. In 1775, he settled an area he called Boonesborough in Kentucky, where he faced Indian resistance. Boone died in Femme Osage Creek, Missouri, in 1820."