This was Daniel Boon. He posits Boone not as the instrument of fate, but of his own yearnings, his own wild ramblings. In an age when America was stretching its boundaries, Boone as a natural man and colonizer seemed to put a more acceptable face on the process of colonization. Garden City Publishing Company, 1922. By 1922, Daniel Boone had become a hero for young boys, whose adventurous pursuits and noble and honest heart justified the atrocities involved in settling the wilderness.
Education is the learning of things that fit one for life.
At a time of uncertainty, change, confusion, the 1920s rejuvenated Boone as a national hero who in effect created large parts of the nation, and did it honorably and without fear.