Daniel Boone: The Warrior's Path

Himself - Host: Down through the ages, man has been impelled, for one reason or another, to break away from the established order of things and push beyond the boundaries of civilization to find out what was on the other side of the mountain or the other side of the sea. The Norsemen set out for conquest, Columbus to prove a theory, Henry Hudson to find the Northwest Passage, and now our modern astronauts to find out not to what's on the other side of the mountain, but on the other side of the Moon. These men were, and are, the trailblazers, the first to venture into the realm of the unknown in their respective fields. Here in America, we've had many famous trailblazers; Ponce de León, Cortés, La Salle, Lewis and Clark. But perhaps the most famous trailblazer of them all was Daniel Boone, the hero of our adventure series based on the life of the famous frontiersman. In 1753, the whole of the Ohio River Valley was an unexplored wilderness which no white man had seen. The Indians called it "Kentucke," and rumors of its fertility and abundance of game drifted back to the ears of young Boone in North Carolina and so excited his imagination, he had to see it. Now, Daniel didn't need much encouragement. A born hunter-trapper with an itchy foot, he needed plenty of elbow room and it was getting crowded in Yadkin Valley. Why, he complained, on a clear day, he could see the chimney smoke of his nearest neighbor some six miles away. So with his famous "Tick-Licker" rifle, Boone headed west. In our opening story, you will see how this restless adventurer was lead into the fabled land of Kentucke, sacred hunting grounds of the Indians, by an old trader who had discovered their secret passage through the mountains. The Indians called it "The Warrior's Path," and that's the title of this story.