FRONTIERSMEN Ep. 1 | Daniel Boone: “Blood Feud”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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As Daniel Boone grows up in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, he earns a reputation as a skilled hunter and marksman. He learns of a hunter’s paradise called Kentucky, but his first trip to the frontier leads to a lifelong blood feud with the Shawnee who lay claim to the land. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On a frigid morning in late December 1769 in eastern Kentucky, a party of Shawnee Warriors slept around a campfire.
0:20.0	The group slept comfortably, which was ironic and
0:23.0	soon to be problematic since the Shawnee knew they had enemies everywhere. Throughout the
0:28.6	1700s, the Shawnee gradually claimed eastern Kentucky as their home. Originally from the Ohio
0:35.6	region, the increase in European settler activity and colonization forced the Shawnee to move to new lands.
0:43.2	Many drifted south to the Kentucky region because of its lush vegetation and abundance of animals.
0:49.8	By the 1760s, the Shawnee were fiercely protective of their hunting territory, and they
0:55.4	dealt harshly with interlopers.
0:58.6	Historically, the Shawnee's greatest foes were the tribes who made up the Iroquois
1:03.2	Confederation.
1:04.7	For generations, the two sides had fought over land.
1:08.3	But now, on a cold morning in late December 1769, the Shawnee Warriors
1:13.5	were about to realize that the Iroquois Confederation was not the problem. In recent years,
1:19.6	British and American-born settlers had added to the tension and complexity of the situation
1:24.7	in Kentucky. When the first Shawnee warrior awoke that morning, he immediately thought of white settlers,
1:31.6	not the Iroquois.
1:37.1	The leader of the Shawnee party, known as Will Emery, by white settlers, stirred at dawn.
1:43.5	He was Cherokee by birth, but he lived with the Shawnee and he
1:46.8	spoke English. As he huddled over the fire to warm himself, he glanced around the campsite.
1:53.1	When he looked at the warrior's horses, which were tied to a cluster of trees, he shouted in anger.
1:59.2	His shout woke the other men of the party. They were up in a flash,
2:03.4	and they followed Emery's gaze to the horses. When they saw what he saw, they bellowed their own
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