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One of my favorite Americans who happened to be born before America was a country is Daniel Boone.

Two years after America's birth as a nation, Boone was in captivity, having been taken prisoner

by a Shawnee War Party. He was in prison for months, and then he escaped. He made a daring escape.

He had to travel 160 miles through uncharted wilderness by foot and by horse in just five days,

makes it back to his settlement in just enough time

to warn them of a coming attack. Now, that story alone could be its own movie. It's already

separated into three acts right there. And there should be dozens of movies about Daniel Boone.

Instead, there have been basically none, at least since the 1960s. But that story is just one anecdote from an

absolutely amazing mythic and yet also real American life. Boone spent decades exploring and charting

the wild American frontier. He helped to blaze the wilderness road through the Appalachian Mountains,

which would pave the way for settlers to make it into Kentucky, which then became a doorway into the west. Just 15 miles

from their final destination on the Kentucky River, Boone's party was attacked by Shawnee Warriors.

Two men were killed, and this echoed an incident from two years before when Boone was attacked

by Cherokees as he tried to make

it into Kentucky. And at the time, several of his party were killed, including his son. And yet two

years later, here he was again. And this time he completed the task. And this again is just one

chapter in an amazing, unbelievable and yet real American life.

These are the kinds of stories that we should be talking about in the lead up to America's

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