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[male narrator]
Across thousands of brutal,
untamed miles..
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[music continues]
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...a different breed
of founding fathers
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fight a revolution...all
their own.
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Fire!
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[grunts]
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For more than 70 years..
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...they push into the unknown.
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...driven by the hope
that this vast land
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holds a fortune
that could be theirs..
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...if...they survive.
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[dramatic music]
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They fight for a dream..
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...to transform a wilderness
into a nation..
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...the United States
of America.
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[dramatic music]
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♪ I am the last one
standing ♪
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♪ When all the giants fell
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♪ Woah-oh oh oh
woah-oh oh oh ♪
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♪ Woah-oh oh oh
woah-oh oh oh ♪
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♪ I won't shiver
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♪ I won't shake
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♪ I'm made of stone
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♪ I don't break
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♪ Staring at the pressure now
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♪ I won't quit
not backing down ♪
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♪ I was born
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♪ Born ready
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♪ I was born
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♪ Born ready
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♪ Open my eyes
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♪ Turn me loose
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♪ And you'll see why
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♪ I was born
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♪ Born ready ♪
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[b[man panting]]
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[intense music]
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[male narrator]
Deep in the vast,
uncharted wilderness
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known as the Kentucky Territory
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Daniel Boone is running
for his life.
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He's spent
the last two years here
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hunting and fur trapping
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but he's on land claimed by the Shawnee Tribe.
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And now, their warriors are hunting him.
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[intense music]
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[panting]
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[war cry]
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[music continues]
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[music continues]
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By the early 1770s
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only a handful
of non-natives have dared
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to venture this far west.
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Those that do find both danger...and opportunity.
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The allure of the frontier
is it's a place
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where people who have nothing
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could go and make
a lot of money
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trapping beaver
and river otter
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and hunting for deer hides.
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Our term today, like,
when you say a dollar or a buck
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a buck comes from
the value of a deer hide.
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At the same time,
you're in constant danger
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of being killed.
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And there's always
a very good chance
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that you could fail
catastrophically.
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[wind whooshing]
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[male narrator]
Boone's lucky to be alive
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but every pelt
he planned to sell
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to feed his family is gone
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and he returns home
to North Carolina in debt.
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[intense music]
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In 1773, North Carolina
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is one of 13 British colonies
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ruled by King George III.
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Ten years earlier, he made it illegal for colonists
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to permanently settle west
of the Appalachians
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though hunting
was permitted.
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That area is home to over two million Native Americans
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from over 300
competing tribes.
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And Britain wants
no trouble with them.
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The crown's restriction
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infuriates colonists
eager for land.
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And it doesn't stop men
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like North Carolina judge
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Richard Henderson.
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He's just bought
20 million acres
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nearly the whole area
of modern Kentucky.
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He plans to profit
by selling it to settlers
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and he doesn't care
what law he breaks
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or if it's claimed
by Native American tribes.
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[intense music]
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[Bill]
I think people were tired
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of constant rules
and regulations.
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Americans wanted
to strike it rich.
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They wanted, uh,
to make a killing
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in land and real estate.
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[David]
The American frontier
always meant dollar signs.
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Some of the great famous names
of the American Revolution
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Ben Franklin,
George Washington
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were engaged in buying up land in the West.
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But you still have, of course, the Native American tribes
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who were not
about to just accept
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all these Americans flooding
over the Appalachian Mountains.
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[male narrator]
If Henderson's going
to settle his land
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he needs to find someone brave enough to lead the way.
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And by sheer coincidence
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he's about to meet him.
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[male #1]
'Mr. Boone promised
to settle his debt'
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as soon as he returned,
and yet here he is
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refusing to make good
on his promise.
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[male narrator]
After his recent disastrous
hunting trip
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Boone is facing
debtor's prison.
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Your Honor, I have every
intention of settling my debts.
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[Robert] When Boone returned from two years in the wilderness
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he was poorer
than when he set out.
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There are tribes
all over Kentucky.
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'I spent two years there.'
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[Robert]
But he lived on hope
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he lived on, on the sense
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that things were gonna
break for him, you know?
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Tracked enough pelts
to pay him back ten times over
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before the Shawnee tracked me.
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[male narrator] Henderson sees a way to solve both of their problems.
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The meeting of Daniel Boone
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and Richard Henderson
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uh, is one of these
coincidences
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that makes history.
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Henderson needs
a guy like Daniel Boone
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the essential frontiersman.
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And he thinks Boone,
who is down on his luck
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he's in serious debts,
is so desperate
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that he would actually
take on this crazy, uh, scheme.
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Mr. Boone..
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...I've recently purchased
a rge parcel of land..
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'...right around here.'
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[male narrator]
The judge offers Boone
a choice.
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Work off his debt
in hard labor camp
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or blaze a trail into the Kentucky wilderness.
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For Daniel Boone
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it'll be the greatest
challenge of his life.
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He'll defy British law
and lead 30 settlers
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farther west
than he's ever been.
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Straight
into Shawnee territory.
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As Boone prepares
to challenge the crown..
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...in New England, another rebellion is brewing.
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[intense music]
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After nearly a decade
of growing anger
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at repressive British taxes
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Boston rebels
are throwing a tea party.
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[clamoring]
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[John]
The idea of freedom
and liberty
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mattered to the colonists.
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And their concern was,
they were on a slippery slope
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to having their rights
and privileges eroded
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by a tyrannical government
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across the seas.
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[male narrator] Tensions between crown and colonies are escalating.
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As Boone sets out
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on a mission that will shape the future of America.
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[Yohuru]
Daniel Boone's foray
into the backcountry
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at that time would be
the equivalent
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of landing on the moon.
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It was opening up
a whole new frontier.
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This is before anyone had
any knowledge about how far
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and expansive
this frontier truly was.
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It was an opportunity
for Americans
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to move into this region
and to discover
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in that process, great wealth
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and also, opportunity.
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[male narrator]
To reach Henderson's claim
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Boone and his men must
cut a trail through a notch
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in the Appalachian Mountains..
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...the Cumberland Gap.
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[intense music]
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[Robert]
There were mountains
that had to be gone around
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streams that had
to be crossed.
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The woods were full of Shawnees
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and other Indians prowling.
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[instrumental music]
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[male narrator]
After a grueling
400-mile journey..
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...Boone arrives at the edge
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of an untapped wilderness.
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[Steven]
If I had access
to a time machine
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I would go back
and be with Boone
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the first time he went through
the Cumberland Gap
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and dropped down into the Kentucky hunting grounds.
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I mean, this was
the Promised Land
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that he had been striving for
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as a frontiersman
his entire life.
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[male narrator]
The trail Boone blazes
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will come to be known
as the Wilderness Road.
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And over the next four decades
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some 300,000 pioneers
will follow it west.
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[David]
Daniel Boone really was
an iconic figure
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even in his own time.
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I mean, these were individuals
who could
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and had to do it all.
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There certainly is something about Americans
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that they were
always striving forward
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relentlessly in search
of land that they could own
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living by their own
self-reliance.
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It was their idea
of the American dream.
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[male narrator] It's an American dream that's about to be born in fire.
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[bell tolling]
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Just two weeks
after Boone's arrival
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colonial rage explodes..
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...in the small town of Lexington, Massachusetts.
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[gunshot]
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It's the shot
heard round the world.
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ramatic music]
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1775, a new spirit
of independence
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is sweeping across America.
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[gunshot]
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And on April 19th..
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[clamoring]
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...the battles of Lexington
and Concord erupt
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leaving 49 colonists dead.
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[gunshots]
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The first casualties in what will soon be a revolution.
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[gunfire]
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[Daina] The rebels that were fighting were ordinary people.
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They were farmers,
just everyday folks
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that wanted freedom
and they wanted liberty.
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And they were willing
to fight for it
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against this great superpower
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and they were willing
to die for this.
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[male narrator]
Four hundred miles west
on the Kentucky frontier
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that same patriotic spirit
inspires Daniel Boone.
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He and his men are building
a permanent settlement
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in defiance
of the British crown.
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Keep those nice and tight
as they go up, yeah?
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- 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.'
- 'Alright.'
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[Daniel]
'Good work, boys.'
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[Yohuru]
At the same time, Lexington
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and Concord
is raging in the East
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here is Daniel Boone and this
small ragtag group of men
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cutting through and establishing
this settlement.
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These seemingly
disconnected events
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in some sense are wedded
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as Americans are beginning
to fight for independence.
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You also have
this process of expanding
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what will become
the American nation.
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[male narrator]
Boone knows
they're on Shawnee soil
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and throughout
the spring of 1775
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he races to complete defenses.
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[Amy]
Living on the frontier
was extremely dangerous.
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Daniel Boone's own son
was tortured to death
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by Indians a couple
years earlier.
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And they knew that
if they were going to survive
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they needed to live
in a fortified settlement.
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[intense music]
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Well, just imagine,
you've arrived
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in the woods of Kentucky.
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You have an axe, and you have a few crosscut saws.
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Every log has gotta be chopped.
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It's gotta be sawed,
it's got to be notched
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it's got to be rolled.
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So, we're talking
about real hard work.
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[male narrator]
After four weeks
of hard labor
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the fort is christened
Boonesborough.
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The settlement is the largest ever established
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on the frontier..
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...and it quickly expands
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triggering a new wave
of pioneers
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drawn west by the promise
of owning land.
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[David] America is the land of dreams.
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And you can just go out,
and if you have your axe
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and your gun and some guts,
alright, you go out there
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and maybe you're gonna
get killed in the wilderness
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but you got a shot
at making your claim.
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That did not exist in Europe.
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All the land was taken.
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It was all owned
by these nobles
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and lords and rich guys.
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There was no opportunity.
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But in America,
there was an opportunity.
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[intense music]
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[male narrator]
Among the new arrivals
at Boonesborough
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are Boone's wife
and eight children
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including his 14-year-old
daughter, Jemima.
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Jemima Boone was
Daniel Boone's favorite child.
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Boone took a personal hand
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in training Jemima
as a marksman
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as a woodswoman.
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[intense music]
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[Steven]
You might look
at Boone's decision
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to move his family into the Kentucky wilderness
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now and think of it as
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this really reckless,
dangerous thing.
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But I think
he probably looked at it as
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this was his chance
to have the American dream.
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Where here's his promise of acquiring a large chunk of land
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that not only
that he could farm and settle
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but that future generations
of Boones
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would be able to farm
and settle
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and live off
the fat of the land.
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[male narrator]
By the end of 1775
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the number of settlers
in Kentucky has tripled.
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And settlements now cover
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more than half a million acres of land.
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A move that alarms
native tribes
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including the Shawnee.
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For the last century, they've been pushed relentlessly west.
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Now, they see each new
settlement as an invasion..
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...one they're determined
to stop.
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In Kentucky, the Shawnees
were already thriving
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before the arrival
of Europeans.
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In fact, they were one
of the more
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kind of, influential
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powerful people
in that region.
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When strange settlers
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begin to build lodges
of their own
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cabins and such
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then native people
began to realize
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this was more
of a permanent situation.
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This is Shawnee territory,
it had to be defended.
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And so, you go to war.
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[intense music]
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[speaking in foreign language]
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[male narrator]
Among the most powerful
Shawnee leaders in Kentucky
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is a war chief
named Blackfish.
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In 1776..
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...he decides
to strike back.
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Blackfish was
a well-known war leader
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of the Chillicothe group
of the Shawnee nation.
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He was a very respected leader
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who drew people to him.
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From Blackfish's perspective,
that land was Shawnee land.
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And so, Blackfish believed
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as many other Shawnees believed
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that a definitive stand
had to be made
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to stop losing ground
to the whites.
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[intense music]
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[screams]
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[woman screaming in distance]
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[male narrator]
Deep in the Kentucky
wilderness..
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...a Shawnee war party abducts
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three young women
near Boonesborough.
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Among them is Daniel Boone's 14-year-old daughter..
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[screaming]
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...Jemima.
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[intense music]
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You three, with me.
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Ready your weapons
and stay alert. Man the wall.
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[grunts]
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[speaking in foreign language]
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[John]
As Americans expand
beyond the Appalachians
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understandably,
conflict is gonna erupt
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between the Native Americans
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and...these frontiersmen
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who have intruded
upon their lands.
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[male narrator]
The warning is clear.
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No outsider who sets foot
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on Shawnee land is safe.
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But Jemima Boone is uniquely equipped to survive.
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[whistles]
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[groaning]
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[cloth ripping]
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[Steven] Now, Boone's daughter starts
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tearing little bits of fabric
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from her apron or dress
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and leaving along a trail.
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[Steven]
So, here's someone,
she's getting abducted
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and she knows
that she's gonna be taken
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to these distant
Indian villages
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and possibly tortured
and killed
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and she has
the presence of mind
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to be leaving evidence
of their passage along the way.
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[Daniel]
'We keep our distance
till nightfall.'
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Come on.
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[crickets chirping]
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[intense music]
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[fire crackling]
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Spread out.
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[music continues]
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[creaking]
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[music continues]
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[gunshot]
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[whooping]
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Come on!
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[gunshot]
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[screaming]
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[gunshots]
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[male #2]
'Watch the tree line.'
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Are you alright?
Are you alright?
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Come here.
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[Robert]
The story of the abduction
of Jemima
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went, as we would say, viral.
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Almost everything Daniel Boone
did burnished his reputation.
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He was the kind of figure
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around whom stories collect.
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Come on, come on.
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People felt, how dumb
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could you be
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to kidnap the daughter
of Daniel Boone.
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[intense music]
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[David]
The Jemima story fits in
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with many stories
of young women getting captured
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by Native Americans
at the time.
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This, this was a,
a kind of great fear and anxiety
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that just proliferated
throughout every single colony.
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[David] The idea that "We got her back
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thanks to Daniel Boone's
heroism"
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is the kind of reassurance
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for women to go out there
who would, of course, be part
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of the essential building
blocks of any society
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and that was really important.
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[male narrator]
Within weeks
of Boone's return
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home to Boonesborough
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the colonies move past
rebellion..
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...to revolution.
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[intense music]
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[male #3]
'"When in the course
of human events'
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"it becomes necessary
for one people
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"to dissolve
the political bands
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'which have connected
them with another."'
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[male narrator]
In July 1776
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the colonies declare
independence.
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[male #3]
'"That among these, are life,
liberty'
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and the pursuit of happiness."
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[male narrator]
And the United States
of America is born.
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It's built on the ideals of freedom and self-reliance..
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...values personified
by frontiersmen.
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Within a month, copies
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of the Declaration
of Independence
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reach remote outposts,
like Boonesborough.
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00:27:57,153 --> 00:27:59,073
When Daniel Boone gets word
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of the Declaration
of Independence
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he had to be aware
that in some sense
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he was on the advance guard
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the front edge of the movement for independence.
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00:28:10,601 --> 00:28:12,691
Daniel Boone understood
that liberty
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was the freedom to do exactly what he had been doing
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to traverse the West,
to provide for his family
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to have a life independent
of some dictatorial power.
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[male narrator] The colonists know the price of independence is war.
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[cannon firing]
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[male narrator]
But Britain's generals
have no doubt
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they will crush
the revolution.
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00:28:41,197 --> 00:28:42,937
Their plan is simple
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hit eastern cities by sea
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00:28:45,593 --> 00:28:47,333
then send troops
down from Canada
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to attack northern forts.
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00:28:50,554 --> 00:28:52,434
[cannons firing]
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00:28:55,559 --> 00:28:59,609
[male narrator]
By November 1776,
the British take New York..
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...then chase the Continental Army into Pennsylvania.
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[John] Things were going very badly
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for the American cause.
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00:29:13,447 --> 00:29:15,137
Great Britain entered the war
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believing that they
could easily suppress us
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because at this point
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the United States
military was small
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and generally
not very efficient.
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And the British are the most powerful empire in the world.
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They had
the most powerful army.
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It was well-trained,
well-organized.
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[explosions]
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[male narrator]
With the Continental Army
on the run
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the British devise a new trap.
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They'll open a western front in the war
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by attacking settlements,
like Boonesborough.
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00:30:05,934 --> 00:30:08,894
Their strategy relies
on unlikely allies.
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Consider them a gift.
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00:30:20,906 --> 00:30:22,336
The British allied
with the Native Americans
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during the Revolutionary War
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because the native allies
were useful
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in terms of scouting,
providing information
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simply as a fighting force.
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00:30:32,004 --> 00:30:35,054
Shawnees had conflict
with white settlers
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coming into their land
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so they were fighting this war
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00:30:37,923 --> 00:30:40,843
alongside the British.
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[male narrator]
In 1777, Britain
starts arming the Shawnee
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and other Native American tribes to fight the settlers.
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In exchange, they promised
to return native lands.
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[John]
These native people
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they had no doubt
what was in store for them
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if the Americans won.
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They faced removal.
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On the other hand
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the British promised rewards
in land.
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[intense music]
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[male narrator]
Now the Shawnee..
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00:31:16,918 --> 00:31:18,828
...and Daniel Boone
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are on a collision course..
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00:31:22,968 --> 00:31:25,878
...that will help decide
the new nation's future.
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[dramatic music]
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00:31:37,330 --> 00:31:39,330
By late 1777..
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00:31:41,247 --> 00:31:43,377
...the Shawnee
are British allies..
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00:31:46,513 --> 00:31:49,343
...part of a strategy
to open a western front
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in the Revolutionary War.
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The British,
in the time of the revolution
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they were arming Indian tribes to attack settlements.
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They promised the Indians
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that once they drove the settlers out of Kentucky
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00:32:04,183 --> 00:32:07,103
they could recover
their territory.
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00:32:07,142 --> 00:32:09,452
The British could then attack
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00:32:09,492 --> 00:32:11,802
the colonies from the west.
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00:32:11,842 --> 00:32:13,802
That was part of their plan
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to put down this rebellion.
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[male narrator]
In Boonesborough
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Daniel Boone has no idea
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00:32:29,512 --> 00:32:30,772
of the coming danger.
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00:32:32,733 --> 00:32:36,003
And the settlement
has a different problem.
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00:32:36,041 --> 00:32:38,001
They're running
dangerously low on salt.
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[Amy]
Salt was so important
506
00:32:41,916 --> 00:32:43,786
to the settlers
at Boonesborough.
507
00:32:43,831 --> 00:32:47,101
The diet of the people
was almost entirely game.
508
00:32:47,139 --> 00:32:48,919
It was hunted meat.
509
00:32:48,967 --> 00:32:52,837
Because Indians were attacking settlers regularly
510
00:32:52,883 --> 00:32:55,583
they stayed in that fort
as much as possible.
511
00:32:55,625 --> 00:32:57,625
And there was very little
farming going on.
512
00:32:57,671 --> 00:33:00,071
So, salt was the only way
513
00:33:00,108 --> 00:33:01,978
that settlers had
to preserve meat.
514
00:33:02,023 --> 00:33:03,893
[intense music]
515
00:33:12,642 --> 00:33:14,992
[male narrator] To get salt, Boone and two dozen of his men
516
00:33:15,036 --> 00:33:18,996
must head 50 miles from the safety of their fort
517
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,910
to a distant river
rich with mineral deposits.
518
00:33:24,611 --> 00:33:26,481
[music continues]
519
00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:42,979
[Steven] Today, we don't really spend a whole lot of time
520
00:33:43,021 --> 00:33:44,331
thinking about salt.
521
00:33:46,589 --> 00:33:48,679
But it was a big undertaking 'cause they wouldn't go
522
00:33:48,722 --> 00:33:50,642
to the store and buy it,
they would go
523
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,900
to, what they called a salt
lake, and this was just a spring
524
00:33:53,944 --> 00:33:55,734
where the water coming up
out of the spring
525
00:33:55,772 --> 00:33:57,432
has a high salt content.
526
00:34:00,603 --> 00:34:02,523
Keep that energy up, boys.
527
00:34:02,562 --> 00:34:04,262
[intense music]
528
00:34:09,873 --> 00:34:12,923
[Steven] You get to boil down five or six hundred gallons of water
529
00:34:12,963 --> 00:34:15,623
to end up with
a 50-pound bushel of salt.
530
00:34:18,012 --> 00:34:19,412
[male narrator] Boone and his men can extract
531
00:34:19,448 --> 00:34:23,498
about 500 pounds of salt a day
532
00:34:23,539 --> 00:34:26,189
but they need 15,000 pounds
before winter.
533
00:34:28,979 --> 00:34:31,329
The work leaves them exposed in the wilderness
534
00:34:31,373 --> 00:34:33,113
for nearly a month.
535
00:34:52,177 --> 00:34:54,087
[intense music]
536
00:35:15,374 --> 00:35:16,724
[twig snaps]
537
00:35:16,766 --> 00:35:17,716
[whooping]
538
00:35:25,210 --> 00:35:27,520
[whooping]
539
00:35:29,388 --> 00:35:31,128
[male narrator]
Boone and all of his men
540
00:35:31,172 --> 00:35:33,742
are taken by the Shawnee.
541
00:35:33,783 --> 00:35:36,403
The British will pay
a $100 bounty
542
00:35:36,438 --> 00:35:38,348
for each captured settler.
543
00:35:45,099 --> 00:35:48,489
The Shawnees and the settlers
in Kentucky were at war.
544
00:35:48,537 --> 00:35:54,717
And when the Shawnees discovered
Boone and his men making salt
545
00:35:54,761 --> 00:35:58,201
this was a sudden crime
of opportunity.
546
00:35:58,243 --> 00:36:01,203
They took them
as prisoners of war.
547
00:36:01,246 --> 00:36:03,896
These would've been
valuable assets.
548
00:36:08,253 --> 00:36:09,953
[male narrator]
First, they have to survive
549
00:36:09,993 --> 00:36:12,263
a brutal Native American rite
550
00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:14,170
called the gauntlet.
551
00:36:17,131 --> 00:36:18,921
[whooping]
552
00:36:23,703 --> 00:36:26,273
[John]
Running the gauntlet
was a test
553
00:36:26,314 --> 00:36:28,104
of one's strength and mettle.
554
00:36:30,536 --> 00:36:32,796
And the gauntlet
was also a way
555
00:36:32,842 --> 00:36:35,322
of terrorizing your enemy.
556
00:36:35,367 --> 00:36:37,977
In fact, many people did not survive.
557
00:36:43,636 --> 00:36:45,506
[whooping]
558
00:36:53,298 --> 00:36:54,998
[intense music]
559
00:37:03,525 --> 00:37:04,475
[groans]
560
00:37:23,415 --> 00:37:24,975
[music continues]
561
00:37:37,255 --> 00:37:38,385
Aah!
562
00:37:49,136 --> 00:37:51,006
[all howling]
563
00:38:02,454 --> 00:38:04,414
[all howling]
564
00:38:04,456 --> 00:38:06,326
[intense music]
565
00:38:24,998 --> 00:38:27,478
[male narrator]
Fighting as British allies
566
00:38:27,522 --> 00:38:30,352
the Shawnee have captured
Daniel Boone and his men.
567
00:38:32,745 --> 00:38:35,045
To prove his worth
568
00:38:35,095 --> 00:38:37,225
Boone is forced to run
the gauntlet.
569
00:38:39,534 --> 00:38:41,414
[dramatic music]
570
00:38:42,929 --> 00:38:43,889
[grunts]
571
00:38:49,675 --> 00:38:50,885
[whooping]
572
00:38:52,417 --> 00:38:54,067
[screaming]
573
00:39:08,911 --> 00:39:10,441
[David]
Boone running the gauntlet
574
00:39:10,478 --> 00:39:13,528
and kind of withstanding
all these hits
575
00:39:13,568 --> 00:39:17,788
earns him, uh, the respect of,
uh, Blackfish.
576
00:39:17,833 --> 00:39:20,623
And he's then able
to convince Blackfish
577
00:39:20,662 --> 00:39:23,882
not to assault anybody else.
578
00:39:23,926 --> 00:39:27,056
And it certainly added
to the legend of Daniel Boone.
579
00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:34,940
[intense music]
580
00:39:44,991 --> 00:39:47,691
[male narrator]
Boone and his men
may be alive..
581
00:39:47,733 --> 00:39:51,003
...but they're prisoners
of war..
582
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,570
...in a rebellion that's on the brink of failure.
583
00:39:58,700 --> 00:40:00,620
[wind whooshing]
584
00:40:05,968 --> 00:40:08,408
[male narrator]
By 1778..
585
00:40:08,449 --> 00:40:11,969
...the exhausted Continental Army is in full retreat.
586
00:40:16,675 --> 00:40:20,155
But it can't escape the most brutal winter in a century.
587
00:40:22,985 --> 00:40:26,505
[John]
In the winter of 1777-1778
588
00:40:26,554 --> 00:40:30,994
the British had occupied
Philadelphia.
589
00:40:31,037 --> 00:40:32,867
Washington's Continental Army
590
00:40:32,908 --> 00:40:34,868
is starving
and freezing to death
591
00:40:34,910 --> 00:40:36,910
at Valley Forge.
592
00:40:36,956 --> 00:40:38,776
It's a very dark time
593
00:40:38,827 --> 00:40:41,437
for the American
revolutionary cause.
594
00:40:42,483 --> 00:40:44,793
[coughing]
595
00:40:44,833 --> 00:40:48,323
[male narrator]
By February,
2,500 continental soldiers
596
00:40:48,358 --> 00:40:50,098
die of exposure
597
00:40:50,143 --> 00:40:53,493
disease and starvation.
598
00:40:53,538 --> 00:40:56,848
More than double the casualties of any single battle.
599
00:41:01,981 --> 00:41:03,591
Back in Boonesborough..
600
00:41:05,767 --> 00:41:08,067
...Boone and his men have been missing for months.
601
00:41:10,555 --> 00:41:13,595
Most settlers fear the worst.
602
00:41:13,645 --> 00:41:16,335
Including Boone's wife,
Rebecca.
603
00:41:19,564 --> 00:41:21,044
Say bye to your sister.
604
00:41:21,087 --> 00:41:22,437
- Bye.
- Goodbye.
605
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:23,440
Bye.
606
00:41:28,790 --> 00:41:30,530
The people of Boonesborough
607
00:41:30,575 --> 00:41:32,615
assumed the men
had been killed.
608
00:41:32,664 --> 00:41:35,014
They had to.
609
00:41:35,057 --> 00:41:38,887
But Jemima stayed after Rebecca took the rest of the family
610
00:41:38,931 --> 00:41:40,761
back to North Carolina.
611
00:41:43,065 --> 00:41:46,765
She believed
that her father
612
00:41:46,808 --> 00:41:48,108
would come back..
613
00:41:49,898 --> 00:41:51,598
...and she was going
to be there to greet him.
614
00:41:59,952 --> 00:42:02,872
[dramatic music]
615
00:42:08,264 --> 00:42:11,274
[male narrator] Hundreds of miles from home..
616
00:42:11,311 --> 00:42:13,621
...Boone has survived months of captivity.
617
00:42:15,924 --> 00:42:19,584
Now, Chief Blackfish
is marching Boone's men
618
00:42:19,624 --> 00:42:22,764
to the British stronghold
of Fort Detroit.
619
00:42:27,414 --> 00:42:31,594
It's the central staging ground for attacks from the west.
620
00:42:31,636 --> 00:42:34,416
Part of Britain's plan to work with their Native American
621
00:42:34,464 --> 00:42:37,994
allies to crush the colonies from all sides.
622
00:42:38,033 --> 00:42:39,913
[intense music]
623
00:42:59,054 --> 00:43:00,674
The British established
624
00:43:00,708 --> 00:43:04,798
a majorheadquarters
at Detroit.
625
00:43:04,843 --> 00:43:07,893
It became the most important fort in that region
626
00:43:07,933 --> 00:43:09,673
and it was out of Detroit
627
00:43:09,717 --> 00:43:12,887
that they sent the militias
628
00:43:12,938 --> 00:43:16,288
and the supplies
for the Indians to attack.
629
00:43:16,332 --> 00:43:19,472
That would become
a front in the war.
630
00:43:19,509 --> 00:43:21,379
[music continues]
631
00:43:45,797 --> 00:43:49,057
These prisoners were valuable
assets for the Shawnee.
632
00:43:49,104 --> 00:43:51,414
They could trade them
with the British
633
00:43:51,454 --> 00:43:55,684
as a symbol of their support for the British side.
634
00:43:55,720 --> 00:43:57,810
Unfortunately, some of them
actually were forced
635
00:43:57,852 --> 00:43:59,992
into the British military.
636
00:44:00,028 --> 00:44:01,898
[music continues]
637
00:44:17,611 --> 00:44:20,271
What's going to happen
to those men?
638
00:44:20,309 --> 00:44:22,359
- Where are you taking them?
- To be questioned.
639
00:44:22,398 --> 00:44:23,968
Those men are not rebels.
640
00:44:24,009 --> 00:44:26,969
They're just hunters
and farmers settled in Kentucky.
641
00:44:27,012 --> 00:44:30,152
- What's your name?
- Daniel Boone.
642
00:44:30,189 --> 00:44:32,929
- Of Boonesborough?
- Yes, sir.
643
00:44:32,974 --> 00:44:36,594
You think that's your land?
644
00:44:36,630 --> 00:44:40,370
Boonesborough has not declared
loyalty to the crown.
645
00:44:40,416 --> 00:44:44,376
As such, I've been ordered
to take it by force.
646
00:44:44,420 --> 00:44:48,030
'Blackfish will lead
a war party to take the fort.'
647
00:44:48,076 --> 00:44:51,076
You will go with him to help
negotiate the surrender.
648
00:44:51,123 --> 00:44:52,693
Please, let me--
649
00:44:52,733 --> 00:44:54,563
That is what's going to happen.
650
00:44:58,217 --> 00:45:02,087
[male narrator] Boonesborough is the most important frontier settlement.
651
00:45:02,134 --> 00:45:05,314
If it falls, the loss could be catastrophic
652
00:45:05,354 --> 00:45:07,144
to the American cause.
653
00:45:09,097 --> 00:45:10,967
[intense music]
654
00:45:22,807 --> 00:45:24,547
[David] Well, you could only imagine what was going through
655
00:45:24,591 --> 00:45:26,641
Boone's mind.
656
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,680
He realizes that the Shawnee
are going to
657
00:45:29,727 --> 00:45:32,247
uh, attack Boonesborough
658
00:45:32,294 --> 00:45:35,914
facing what seemed to be,
insurmountable odds.
659
00:45:35,950 --> 00:45:39,300
Vastly outnumbered,
his family is there
660
00:45:39,345 --> 00:45:42,125
so he decides that
he's going to risk it all
661
00:45:42,174 --> 00:45:44,054
and try to escape.
662
00:45:44,089 --> 00:45:45,959
[intense music]
663
00:45:54,621 --> 00:45:56,491
[speaking in foreign language]
664
00:46:04,936 --> 00:46:06,756
[incoherent clamoring]
665
00:46:14,119 --> 00:46:15,989
[music continues]
666
00:46:22,127 --> 00:46:23,957
[incoherent clamoring]
667
00:46:48,980 --> 00:46:51,370
[male narrator]
Daniel Boone is on the move
668
00:46:51,417 --> 00:46:54,507
making a daring escape..
669
00:46:54,550 --> 00:46:56,380
...from his Shawnee captors.
670
00:46:59,338 --> 00:47:02,428
He has to warn Boonesborough that an attack is imminent.
671
00:47:06,562 --> 00:47:07,782
[Blackfish]
'Boone!'
672
00:47:07,825 --> 00:47:09,865
[music continues]
673
00:47:09,914 --> 00:47:11,704
[incoherent clamoring]
674
00:47:23,101 --> 00:47:24,891
[speaking in foreign language]
675
00:47:32,980 --> 00:47:34,900
[panting]
676
00:47:37,855 --> 00:47:39,725
[music continues]
677
00:47:43,686 --> 00:47:45,906
[male narrator]
Alone, on foot
678
00:47:45,950 --> 00:47:48,520
Boone must cover a 150 miles
679
00:47:48,561 --> 00:47:53,041
faster than the Shawnee
or the fort will fall
680
00:47:53,087 --> 00:47:55,387
allowing the British
and their allies
681
00:47:55,437 --> 00:47:58,177
to attack the colonies
from the west.
682
00:47:58,223 --> 00:48:00,093
[music continues]
683
00:48:05,143 --> 00:48:06,103
[grunts]
684
00:48:08,798 --> 00:48:10,838
Because he was
an expert tracker
685
00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:14,198
Boone knows very well
the kind of things you do
686
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,979
if you don't want someone
to follow you.
687
00:48:17,024 --> 00:48:20,114
So, Boone would do things
like step only on rocks
688
00:48:20,158 --> 00:48:23,028
to not leave a trail
and you cut zigzags
689
00:48:23,074 --> 00:48:26,384
and circles and anything you can
do to confuse your pursuer.
690
00:48:30,124 --> 00:48:31,084
[groans]
691
00:48:35,260 --> 00:48:39,220
[John]
When Boone escaped
from the Shawnees
692
00:48:39,264 --> 00:48:41,664
he was not prepared
for a 100-mile journey.
693
00:48:43,746 --> 00:48:45,486
His feet were blistered
and bloody.
694
00:48:47,707 --> 00:48:48,747
[groans]
695
00:48:48,795 --> 00:48:50,665
[music continues]
696
00:48:58,457 --> 00:49:00,327
[incoherent clamoring]
697
00:49:19,347 --> 00:49:20,867
[grunts]
698
00:49:20,914 --> 00:49:22,794
[music continues]
699
00:49:40,064 --> 00:49:42,814
Guys like Daniel Boone
who are on these
700
00:49:42,849 --> 00:49:44,549
endurance journeys.
701
00:49:44,590 --> 00:49:47,940
You'd have to be
in extremely good shape.
702
00:49:47,985 --> 00:49:52,725
That's just a testimonial
to how tough these guys were.
703
00:49:52,772 --> 00:49:55,302
He managed to do it
in four days.
704
00:49:55,340 --> 00:49:58,000
In order to do that,
he drew on incredible resources
705
00:49:58,038 --> 00:49:59,298
in his body.
706
00:50:03,565 --> 00:50:05,435
[crickets chirping]
707
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,440
[panting]
708
00:50:07,482 --> 00:50:09,352
[intense music]
709
00:50:11,747 --> 00:50:13,577
[David] This is an extraordinary story.
710
00:50:13,619 --> 00:50:15,229
I mean, we're talkin' about, uh..
711
00:50:15,273 --> 00:50:18,023
...four marathons
in four days
712
00:50:18,058 --> 00:50:20,668
without shoes, uh,
through the wilderness..
713
00:50:20,713 --> 00:50:23,063
Not even running on streets.
714
00:50:23,107 --> 00:50:25,497
It builds on this reputation
715
00:50:25,544 --> 00:50:29,114
of Daniel Boone the superhero who can do anything.
716
00:50:29,156 --> 00:50:31,026
[music continues]
717
00:50:38,687 --> 00:50:40,077
[male #4]
'It's Boone!'
718
00:50:40,124 --> 00:50:42,084
[indistinct chatter]
719
00:50:42,126 --> 00:50:43,996
[intense music]
720
00:50:55,008 --> 00:50:56,788
[breathing heavily]
721
00:51:09,022 --> 00:51:10,812
[male narrator]
Home for the first time
in months
722
00:51:10,850 --> 00:51:12,680
there's no time to rest.
723
00:51:20,381 --> 00:51:22,211
The Shawnee are coming.
724
00:51:25,125 --> 00:51:26,995
Gather our weapons.
725
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,260
Muskets, ammunition,
gunpowder.
726
00:51:29,303 --> 00:51:31,183
Get everything you can.
727
00:51:36,702 --> 00:51:38,922
[John]
Everything they needed,
essentially
728
00:51:38,965 --> 00:51:41,005
they had
to produce themselves.
729
00:51:41,054 --> 00:51:43,194
Everything they consumed,
everything they drank..
730
00:51:43,230 --> 00:51:45,450
Uh, all the gunpowder
that they used
731
00:51:45,493 --> 00:51:48,063
the, the lead bullets
that they cast
732
00:51:48,105 --> 00:51:50,185
everything had to be made
from materials
733
00:51:50,237 --> 00:51:52,107
that were at hand.
734
00:51:56,765 --> 00:52:00,155
[male narrator]
Combining leftover sulfur..
735
00:52:00,204 --> 00:52:04,734
...charcoal from the campfire and bat dung
736
00:52:04,773 --> 00:52:08,043
the settlers race
to make gunpowder.
737
00:52:08,081 --> 00:52:09,951
[intense music]
738
00:52:17,134 --> 00:52:19,754
It was a desperate time.
They were short of men.
739
00:52:19,788 --> 00:52:22,438
They were short of ammunition,
short of supplies.
740
00:52:27,100 --> 00:52:29,060
And yet,
people of Boonesborough
741
00:52:29,102 --> 00:52:32,242
were really
a part of the defense
742
00:52:32,279 --> 00:52:35,759
as it turned out,
of the American, uh, Revolution.
743
00:52:35,804 --> 00:52:37,684
[music continues]
744
00:53:05,878 --> 00:53:08,228
[music continues]
745
00:53:08,272 --> 00:53:12,972
[male narrator]
Blackfish and his 450
Shawnee warriors
746
00:53:13,015 --> 00:53:15,145
outnumber the people
of Boonesborough..
747
00:53:16,236 --> 00:53:17,496
...seven to one.
748
00:53:17,542 --> 00:53:19,412
[music continues]
749
00:53:30,555 --> 00:53:33,595
[male narrator]
Fearing a massacre..
750
00:53:33,645 --> 00:53:38,035
...Boone makes a last ditch effort to get reinforcements
751
00:53:38,084 --> 00:53:40,004
and sends
for the local militia.
752
00:53:47,311 --> 00:53:49,231
[intense music]
753
00:53:52,925 --> 00:53:56,485
They're stationed over
300 miles away..
754
00:53:56,537 --> 00:53:57,497
...in Virginia.
755
00:54:05,154 --> 00:54:07,854
And there's no telling
if they'll arrive in time..
756
00:54:09,463 --> 00:54:10,773
...or at all.
757
00:54:26,263 --> 00:54:29,793
[male narrator] Deep in the Kentucky wilderness
758
00:54:29,831 --> 00:54:32,661
Daniel Boone braces
for an attack.
759
00:54:38,275 --> 00:54:41,185
Four hundred and fifty
Shawnee warriors
760
00:54:41,234 --> 00:54:42,984
are marching toward
Boonesborough..
761
00:54:45,238 --> 00:54:48,888
...under British orders
to capture the fort.
762
00:54:48,937 --> 00:54:52,327
If it falls, the blow to the colonial cause
763
00:54:52,376 --> 00:54:53,546
could be devastating.
764
00:54:56,205 --> 00:54:58,765
To understand what was going on
at Boonesborough
765
00:54:58,817 --> 00:55:02,687
you have to consider it in the context of the revolution.
766
00:55:02,734 --> 00:55:05,874
The British
were encouraging Indians
767
00:55:05,911 --> 00:55:09,041
to attack the Kentucky
settlements.
768
00:55:09,088 --> 00:55:11,828
Boonesborough was the biggest
one, so they felt if they could
769
00:55:11,873 --> 00:55:13,883
bring that down
770
00:55:13,919 --> 00:55:17,839
they could probably
overrun Kentucky
771
00:55:17,879 --> 00:55:19,709
and drive the settlers out.
772
00:55:22,710 --> 00:55:26,410
And then attack from the west against the colonies.
773
00:55:29,543 --> 00:55:32,683
[male narrator]
Boone sent word
to the Virginia militia
774
00:55:32,720 --> 00:55:34,070
hoping for help.
775
00:55:36,245 --> 00:55:38,415
But they're more than
300 miles away..
776
00:55:40,598 --> 00:55:42,078
...and he has no idea
777
00:55:42,121 --> 00:55:43,951
if they're coming.
778
00:55:45,907 --> 00:55:47,777
[intense music]
779
00:56:06,493 --> 00:56:07,763
[male #5]
'They're here!'
780
00:56:15,894 --> 00:56:17,774
[music continues]
781
00:56:24,816 --> 00:56:25,816
My God!
782
00:56:32,693 --> 00:56:35,443
[Steven]
A force of hundreds
of Indians shows up.
783
00:56:35,479 --> 00:56:37,479
They want to wipe Boonesborough
off the map.
784
00:56:45,924 --> 00:56:47,804
[music continues]
785
00:56:50,232 --> 00:56:52,062
Daniel Boone!
786
00:56:52,104 --> 00:56:53,634
[Steven]
But Boone doesn't want
787
00:56:53,671 --> 00:56:55,021
to engage them in a fight.
788
00:56:55,063 --> 00:56:57,073
He's aware that the Shawnee
789
00:56:57,109 --> 00:56:59,109
could possibly massacre
them all
790
00:56:59,154 --> 00:57:01,684
so he negotiates
with the Shawnee.
791
00:57:02,984 --> 00:57:04,604
[Daniel]
'I'm coming out!'
792
00:57:04,638 --> 00:57:06,508
[intense music]
793
00:57:12,254 --> 00:57:14,084
[gate creaks]
794
00:57:34,625 --> 00:57:36,495
[music continues]
795
00:57:42,676 --> 00:57:44,456
[speaking in foreign language]
796
00:57:50,989 --> 00:57:52,859
Do right by your people.
797
00:57:52,904 --> 00:57:55,994
Surrender and no harm
will come to them.
798
00:57:56,037 --> 00:57:59,347
'You have until sundown.'
799
00:57:59,388 --> 00:58:02,348
I need more time
to discuss it with the others.
800
00:58:02,391 --> 00:58:04,221
[speaking in foreign language]
801
00:58:10,878 --> 00:58:12,788
You have until sundown.
802
00:58:12,837 --> 00:58:14,707
[music continues]
803
00:58:29,593 --> 00:58:31,463
[incoherent clamoring]
804
00:58:33,727 --> 00:58:34,727
[grunts]
805
00:58:37,122 --> 00:58:38,952
[grunting]
806
00:58:42,867 --> 00:58:44,737
[music continues]
807
00:58:48,437 --> 00:58:49,957
[gunshots]
808
00:58:50,004 --> 00:58:51,884
Man your post.
Fire at will.
809
00:59:05,977 --> 00:59:08,017
[gunshots]
810
00:59:08,066 --> 00:59:09,936
[incoherent clamoring]
811
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:19,160
Even though they were
vastly outnumbered
812
00:59:19,207 --> 00:59:20,907
uh, by the Indians
813
00:59:20,948 --> 00:59:24,388
the frontiersmen
who are in Boonesborough
814
00:59:24,430 --> 00:59:26,210
they used good fortifications
815
00:59:26,258 --> 00:59:28,908
they had stockpiles
of weaponry.
816
00:59:28,956 --> 00:59:30,916
[gunshots]
817
00:59:30,958 --> 00:59:34,308
And remember that they had
to hunt just to survive
818
00:59:34,353 --> 00:59:37,143
so they were always
exceptional marksmen.
819
00:59:37,182 --> 00:59:38,972
[incoherent clamoring]
820
00:59:44,493 --> 00:59:46,373
[gunshots]
821
00:59:47,758 --> 00:59:49,628
[intense music]
822
01:00:02,337 --> 01:00:03,507
Aah!
823
01:00:12,260 --> 01:00:14,520
We're gonna make this.
We're gonna make this.
824
01:00:20,573 --> 01:00:22,403
[gun firing]
825
01:00:25,796 --> 01:00:28,226
[men whooping]
826
01:00:38,199 --> 01:00:40,069
[music continues]
827
01:00:49,820 --> 01:00:51,690
[gun firing]
828
01:00:56,087 --> 01:00:58,737
[male narrator]
Boone and a force
of just 60 settlers
829
01:00:58,785 --> 01:01:02,615
fight off the first attack.
830
01:01:02,659 --> 01:01:04,839
The Shawnee suffer
heavy casualties..
831
01:01:08,577 --> 01:01:12,577
i0dt:1"X ...but Blackfish refuses
to give up.
832
01:01:12,625 --> 01:01:15,625
[John]
The frontier story
has been told many times
833
01:01:15,672 --> 01:01:18,982
almost always
with the settlers
834
01:01:19,023 --> 01:01:20,683
as the heroes of the story.
835
01:01:23,505 --> 01:01:27,065
But American Indians
are Americans too.
836
01:01:27,118 --> 01:01:28,948
Shawnee people were defending what they considered to be
837
01:01:28,989 --> 01:01:30,469
their homeland.
838
01:01:36,083 --> 01:01:39,263
[male narrator]
The Battle of Boonesborough
is just beginning.
839
01:01:44,788 --> 01:01:46,698
[gunshots]
840
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:52,620
[male narrator]
In the first major battle
on the western front
841
01:01:52,665 --> 01:01:56,965
of the Revolutionary War, Boonesborough is under siege.
842
01:01:59,193 --> 01:02:01,073
[gunshots]
843
01:02:06,853 --> 01:02:08,333
[dramatic music]
844
01:02:10,465 --> 01:02:13,155
After taking heavy casualties
845
01:02:13,207 --> 01:02:16,817
Shawnee leader, Blackfish,
changes tactics..
846
01:02:16,863 --> 01:02:19,613
[dramatic music]
847
01:02:26,568 --> 01:02:29,048
...unleashing a barrage
of surprise attacks
848
01:02:29,093 --> 01:02:30,833
on the settlement.
849
01:02:37,754 --> 01:02:38,804
[gunshot]
850
01:02:38,842 --> 01:02:40,502
[grunts]
851
01:02:40,539 --> 01:02:42,579
[men whooping]
852
01:02:42,628 --> 01:02:44,588
[gunshots]
853
01:02:44,630 --> 01:02:46,460
[breathing heavily]
854
01:02:53,770 --> 01:02:55,080
[groaning]
855
01:02:59,427 --> 01:03:01,207
[gunshots]
856
01:03:04,128 --> 01:03:05,478
Come on!
857
01:03:14,007 --> 01:03:15,227
Just hang on.
858
01:03:16,618 --> 01:03:18,488
[groaning]
859
01:03:27,020 --> 01:03:30,420
[David] The Native Americans we're using hit-and-run tactics
860
01:03:30,458 --> 01:03:33,158
and these are quite
devastatingly effective
861
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,420
because those in the frontier
862
01:03:35,463 --> 01:03:37,683
feared that they could be
attacked at any time
863
01:03:37,726 --> 01:03:38,946
at any place.
864
01:03:41,165 --> 01:03:44,815
This, as in every combat,
is a test of wills.
865
01:03:47,084 --> 01:03:49,654
[Robert]
They were vulnerable
and exposed.
866
01:03:49,695 --> 01:03:52,255
Bullets were flying.
867
01:03:52,306 --> 01:03:54,346
There was gun smoke
sometimes so thick
868
01:03:54,395 --> 01:03:57,355
you couldn't see anything.
869
01:03:57,398 --> 01:04:00,398
This went on day after day
after day.
870
01:04:03,187 --> 01:04:07,887
[male narrator]
With the fort surrounded,
the settlers are trapped.
871
01:04:07,931 --> 01:04:09,761
[baby wailing]
872
01:04:16,853 --> 01:04:19,903
There was human waste,
animal carcasses
873
01:04:19,943 --> 01:04:22,293
and rotten meat layin' around.
874
01:04:22,336 --> 01:04:24,986
Everyone's clothes
are in tatters.
875
01:04:25,035 --> 01:04:29,645
I mean, this place
is a miserable cesspool.
876
01:04:29,691 --> 01:04:32,561
The only thing worse
than being in here
877
01:04:32,607 --> 01:04:35,737
would be to step out of there
and be tortured and killed.
878
01:04:35,784 --> 01:04:38,484
[dramatic music]
879
01:04:39,788 --> 01:04:41,788
[fire crackling]
880
01:04:45,185 --> 01:04:48,095
[male narrator]
Boone refuses to surrender.
881
01:04:51,583 --> 01:04:53,803
The settlers
stand their ground.
882
01:04:53,846 --> 01:04:55,666
[music continues]
883
01:04:58,329 --> 01:04:59,679
[hissing]
884
01:05:01,506 --> 01:05:03,376
[men whooping]
885
01:05:06,032 --> 01:05:08,172
[gunshots]
886
01:05:23,876 --> 01:05:26,136
[music continues]
887
01:05:29,273 --> 01:05:30,453
[grunts]
888
01:05:33,451 --> 01:05:35,151
[groaning]
889
01:05:38,412 --> 01:05:39,592
Aah!
890
01:05:51,860 --> 01:05:55,340
[male narrator]
The attacks continue
for nine straight days
891
01:05:55,386 --> 01:05:58,036
but Blackfish still
can't take the fort.
892
01:06:01,087 --> 01:06:06,567
[Robert] Blackfish was in a very complicated situation there.
893
01:06:06,614 --> 01:06:10,404
He knew that unless Boone
surrendered the fort
894
01:06:10,444 --> 01:06:14,104
it was unlikely
he could take it.
895
01:06:14,144 --> 01:06:17,504
And in a well-built fort,
with those big logs, uh
896
01:06:17,538 --> 01:06:20,888
with rifles,
he could not take the fort.
897
01:06:29,159 --> 01:06:30,989
[dramatic music]
898
01:06:45,218 --> 01:06:47,528
[fire crackling]
899
01:06:50,441 --> 01:06:52,271
[John]
Blackfish and the Shawnees
just decided
900
01:06:52,312 --> 01:06:55,322
if we can't bring them over,
if we can't capture them
901
01:06:55,359 --> 01:06:57,879
we'll simply do whatever
we can to destroy them.
902
01:06:59,624 --> 01:07:01,894
[intense music]
903
01:07:04,107 --> 01:07:05,537
[speaking in native language]
904
01:07:12,985 --> 01:07:14,805
c]
905
01:07:21,428 --> 01:07:23,998
[male narrator]
Boonesborough
is now a battlefield
906
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:26,090
in the Revolutionary War.
907
01:07:26,129 --> 01:07:28,519
Armed by the British,
the Shawnee mount
908
01:07:28,566 --> 01:07:29,826
a fierce attack.
909
01:07:32,222 --> 01:07:34,882
But after ten days
of relentless fighting
910
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:36,970
the fort still stands.
911
01:07:42,145 --> 01:07:44,185
[speaking in native language]
912
01:07:44,234 --> 01:07:45,934
[music continues]
913
01:07:49,152 --> 01:07:51,422
[screaming]
914
01:07:57,073 --> 01:07:58,513
Everybody out!
915
01:08:00,032 --> 01:08:01,862
[clamoring]
916
01:08:07,039 --> 01:08:09,039
[gunshots]
917
01:08:12,566 --> 01:08:14,606
[clamoring]
918
01:08:14,655 --> 01:08:17,045
[music continues]
919
01:08:43,467 --> 01:08:45,427
[neighing]
920
01:08:45,469 --> 01:08:47,339
[fire crackling]
921
01:09:02,921 --> 01:09:05,181
[Robert]
The siege of Boonesborough
was terrifying
922
01:09:05,228 --> 01:09:06,928
for the people
inside the fort.
923
01:09:09,057 --> 01:09:11,797
The gunfire was so loud
924
01:09:11,843 --> 01:09:15,113
women were screaming,
children were crying
925
01:09:15,151 --> 01:09:19,071
they knew the Virginia militia was on its way
926
01:09:19,111 --> 01:09:21,071
but they didn't
get there in time.
927
01:09:22,810 --> 01:09:24,940
So, the people
of Boonesborough
928
01:09:24,986 --> 01:09:27,726
simply assumed
the fort was falling.
929
01:09:34,431 --> 01:09:36,871
[thunder rumbling]
930
01:09:36,911 --> 01:09:39,181
[dramatic music]
931
01:09:40,785 --> 01:09:43,475
[rain pattering]
932
01:10:00,544 --> 01:10:02,684
[Robert]
At a very important moment
933
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:07,770
a rainstorm came
and doused the flames.
934
01:10:07,812 --> 01:10:10,082
Had it not rained
at that time
935
01:10:10,118 --> 01:10:13,248
Boonesborough could have,
uh, been taken.
936
01:10:16,864 --> 01:10:19,434
[male narrator]
The Shawnees' attack fails.
937
01:10:23,784 --> 01:10:25,704
And when a scout returns
with word
938
01:10:25,743 --> 01:10:27,923
that the Virginia militia
is coming
939
01:10:27,962 --> 01:10:30,442
Blackfish has no choice
but to retreat.
940
01:10:33,054 --> 01:10:36,324
[Robert]
They knew there were
more men there, more rifles
941
01:10:36,362 --> 01:10:38,452
more powder, more supplies
942
01:10:38,495 --> 01:10:42,755
and psychologically this was so discouraging to the Indians
943
01:10:42,803 --> 01:10:46,763
and Blackfish that
the next morning they were gone.
944
01:10:50,898 --> 01:10:55,288
[male narrator] After a eleven days of brutal, round-the-clock fighting
945
01:10:55,338 --> 01:10:58,248
the Battle of Boonesborough
is finally over.
946
01:10:59,907 --> 01:11:04,997
Securing a badly needed
colonial win.
947
01:11:05,043 --> 01:11:08,573
[Robert] It would be hard to exaggerate the importance of the victory
948
01:11:08,612 --> 01:11:11,402
at Boonesborough
for the colonies at this time.
949
01:11:11,441 --> 01:11:13,531
It was a desperate time.
950
01:11:13,573 --> 01:11:18,233
1778 was a bad year
for the Americans.
951
01:11:18,274 --> 01:11:22,504
So, even this little battle
in way off in Kentucky
952
01:11:22,539 --> 01:11:25,669
s important.
953
01:11:25,716 --> 01:11:27,936
[David]
The British make a major
miscalculation in dealing
954
01:11:27,979 --> 01:11:30,499
with Boonesborough
and the American frontier.
955
01:11:32,592 --> 01:11:35,072
By supporting
Native American attacks
956
01:11:35,116 --> 01:11:37,596
against the colonists
in the West
957
01:11:37,641 --> 01:11:40,731
that only infuriates
and increases
958
01:11:40,774 --> 01:11:44,004
the hatred
of the British in the East.
959
01:11:44,038 --> 01:11:47,298
This was the deepest anxiety
960
01:11:47,346 --> 01:11:50,306
that these English colonists
had, and for the British to now
961
01:11:50,349 --> 01:11:52,959
just push that button,
it's the height of stupidity.
962
01:11:58,531 --> 01:12:01,271
[male narrator]
Just days after
the Shawnee retreat..
963
01:12:04,450 --> 01:12:07,150
...the Virginia militia
finally arrives.
964
01:12:07,192 --> 01:12:09,062
[dramatic music]
965
01:12:22,642 --> 01:12:24,512
They've come
with a new mission
966
01:12:24,557 --> 01:12:27,387
to escalate the war
on the frontier
967
01:12:27,430 --> 01:12:31,000
by striking back against
Britain and its allies.
968
01:12:33,349 --> 01:12:35,869
Their first target
is Chillicothe
969
01:12:35,916 --> 01:12:38,656
the home of Blackfish
970
01:12:38,702 --> 01:12:41,142
and an opportunity
for revenge.
971
01:12:44,272 --> 01:12:47,362
[John]
Boone was opposed
to exterminationist raids.
972
01:12:47,406 --> 01:12:49,756
These raids north of the Ohio
973
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:52,150
were aimed at destroying
974
01:12:52,193 --> 01:12:53,893
the Indian homeland.
975
01:12:53,934 --> 01:12:57,504
Burning villages,
burning cornfields
976
01:12:57,547 --> 01:13:00,847
attacking women and children, killing indiscriminately.
977
01:13:00,898 --> 01:13:03,288
This was just not Boone's style.
978
01:13:05,859 --> 01:13:09,649
I don't know
where their village is.
979
01:13:09,689 --> 01:13:12,079
[Steven]
The remarkable thing about
Boone is that Boone doesn't
980
01:13:12,126 --> 01:13:14,826
turn into an Indian hater.
981
01:13:14,868 --> 01:13:18,958
He doesn't give his life over
to hate and vengeance.
982
01:13:19,003 --> 01:13:20,923
He still has it in him
the capability
983
01:13:20,961 --> 01:13:23,011
to seek peace
with these people.
984
01:13:23,050 --> 01:13:25,230
It's kind of remarkable, because I think that if most
985
01:13:25,270 --> 01:13:27,230
people imagined that situation
986
01:13:27,272 --> 01:13:30,972
the hate would define you
for the rest of your life.
987
01:13:32,712 --> 01:13:34,022
[Andrew]
'I do.'
988
01:13:39,110 --> 01:13:41,420
It's right here.
989
01:13:41,460 --> 01:13:43,160
North of the Ohio River.
990
01:13:45,508 --> 01:13:48,208
[intense music]
991
01:13:55,126 --> 01:13:57,516
[male narrator]
Boone's refusal to fight
at Chillicothe
992
01:13:57,563 --> 01:14:00,873
causes a rift between him
and the other settlers.
993
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:13,880
In the fall of 1778,
Daniel and Jemima Boone
994
01:14:13,927 --> 01:14:16,537
leave the settlement
he founded.
995
01:14:21,674 --> 01:14:23,944
[music continues]
996
01:14:23,981 --> 01:14:26,331
He goes on to join
American forces
997
01:14:26,374 --> 01:14:29,294
fighting the British
on the western front.
998
01:14:29,334 --> 01:14:32,424
And though he never again
sets foot in Boonesborough
999
01:14:32,468 --> 01:14:34,508
the settlement survives..
1000
01:14:36,297 --> 01:14:38,387
...and Kentucky will become
1001
01:14:38,430 --> 01:14:42,480
America's 15th state.
1002
01:14:42,521 --> 01:14:45,441
[Steven]
Boone remains
a seductive figure
1003
01:14:45,481 --> 01:14:47,871
in the American imagination.
1004
01:14:47,918 --> 01:14:50,528
I think we all like to fancy
1005
01:14:50,573 --> 01:14:53,453
that in those circumstances
we would be that brave
1006
01:14:53,489 --> 01:14:56,839
and that resourceful
and that capable
1007
01:14:56,883 --> 01:14:58,933
to live through and do
the things that he did.
1008
01:14:58,972 --> 01:15:00,632
But also throughout his life
1009
01:15:00,670 --> 01:15:04,150
he seems just have remained
a good guy.
1010
01:15:04,195 --> 01:15:06,455
Boone still stands out
as this likable figure
1011
01:15:06,502 --> 01:15:08,332
who treated people fairly
1012
01:15:08,373 --> 01:15:11,033
wanted the best for people.
1013
01:15:11,071 --> 01:15:13,551
And he had that
rugged individualism
1014
01:15:13,596 --> 01:15:16,466
that is the embodiment
of American frontiersmen.
1015
01:15:23,562 --> 01:15:25,872
[dramatic music]
1016
01:15:29,176 --> 01:15:32,656
[male narrator] With Boone gone, in May 1779
1017
01:15:32,702 --> 01:15:37,012
Virginia's militia marches
on Britain's allies
1018
01:15:37,054 --> 01:15:38,624
the Shawnee.
1019
01:15:53,940 --> 01:15:56,640
[dramatic music]
1020
01:16:00,991 --> 01:16:06,561
[male narrator]
Chillicothe is home
to 3000 Shawnee..
1021
01:16:06,605 --> 01:16:10,125
...when the Virginia militia descends bent on revenge.
1022
01:16:11,828 --> 01:16:14,308
[men whooping]
1023
01:16:16,876 --> 01:16:18,266
[screams]
1024
01:16:20,401 --> 01:16:23,101
[fire crackling]
1025
01:16:23,143 --> 01:16:24,713
[groaning]
1026
01:16:24,754 --> 01:16:26,634
[music continues]
1027
01:16:27,931 --> 01:16:29,501
[grunting]
1028
01:16:31,108 --> 01:16:33,198
[men whooping]
1029
01:16:38,637 --> 01:16:39,937
[grunts]
1030
01:16:51,476 --> 01:16:52,606
[gunshot]
1031
01:16:58,309 --> 01:17:00,619
[dramatic music]
1032
01:17:19,678 --> 01:17:23,418
[Amy] For the Shawnee people, the loss of a beloved leader
1033
01:17:23,464 --> 01:17:27,384
in Blackfish
was a serious event.
1034
01:17:27,425 --> 01:17:29,685
Blackfish loomed large
1035
01:17:29,732 --> 01:17:33,472
because of his stature and reputation as a war leader.
1036
01:17:33,518 --> 01:17:37,648
The loss of Blackfish was
the loss of yet another hero.
1037
01:17:46,531 --> 01:17:49,231
[male narrator]
From those that survive
1038
01:17:49,273 --> 01:17:53,543
a new Shawnee hero
will emerge.
1039
01:17:53,581 --> 01:17:58,331
The adopted son of Blackfish, a 11-year-old Tecumseh
1040
01:17:58,369 --> 01:18:01,019
who will soon rise
to lead his people
1041
01:18:01,067 --> 01:18:03,637
in the fight to reclaim
the frontier.
1042
01:18:07,770 --> 01:18:10,860
One year after the death of Chief Blackfish
1043
01:18:10,903 --> 01:18:14,213
the Continental Army begins to turn the tide of the war.
1044
01:18:16,387 --> 01:18:17,907
[gunshots]
1045
01:18:20,260 --> 01:18:24,090
[gunshots]
1046
01:18:24,134 --> 01:18:25,274
[grunts]
1047
01:18:27,398 --> 01:18:30,438
The success of the settlers
in defending Boonesborough
1048
01:18:30,488 --> 01:18:34,878
was just one incident in a long
series of fights and battles.
1049
01:18:34,927 --> 01:18:36,887
[gunshot]
1050
01:18:39,976 --> 01:18:43,066
Eventually, the French
come into the conflict
1051
01:18:43,109 --> 01:18:46,679
as the allies
of the Americans.
1052
01:18:46,722 --> 01:18:48,772
And in many ways, that indeed
1053
01:18:48,811 --> 01:18:50,941
was the turning point
in the revolution.
1054
01:18:58,124 --> 01:19:00,914
[male narrator]
In September, 1783
1055
01:19:00,953 --> 01:19:03,613
Britain signs
the Treaty of Paris.
1056
01:19:05,828 --> 01:19:08,218
Formally recognizing
the sovereignty
1057
01:19:08,265 --> 01:19:10,345
of the United States of America
1058
01:19:10,397 --> 01:19:12,227
and ending the war.
1059
01:19:18,884 --> 01:19:20,764
[instrumental music]
1060
01:19:23,671 --> 01:19:25,891
[Kathleen] People might not realize this, but the Treaty of Paris
1061
01:19:25,935 --> 01:19:29,025
was actually signed
by this new United States
1062
01:19:29,068 --> 01:19:32,028
the British Empire
and the French Empire.
1063
01:19:34,595 --> 01:19:37,505
France provided troops,
provided navies
1064
01:19:37,555 --> 01:19:40,815
and funded
the American Revolution.
1065
01:19:40,863 --> 01:19:43,303
Britain figured France
was actually
1066
01:19:43,343 --> 01:19:46,563
its bigger enemy
in the long run.
1067
01:19:46,607 --> 01:19:50,257
So, Britain surrendered
pretty much all the lands
1068
01:19:50,307 --> 01:19:52,877
West of the Appalachians
to the Mississippi River
1069
01:19:52,918 --> 01:19:56,568
to make an ally
of the new United States.
1070
01:19:56,617 --> 01:19:58,487
[all cheering]
1071
01:20:02,536 --> 01:20:06,446
[male narrator]
The new country
nearly doubles in size
1072
01:20:06,497 --> 01:20:10,197
gaining more than 250,000
square miles of land..
1073
01:20:13,112 --> 01:20:15,812
...stretching from Florida
to Canada
1074
01:20:15,854 --> 01:20:18,644
and from the Atlantic
to the Mississippi.
1075
01:20:18,683 --> 01:20:21,033
[dramatic music]
1076
01:20:25,864 --> 01:20:28,784
[John]
The big surprise
of the Treaty of Paris
1077
01:20:28,824 --> 01:20:31,224
was that the British
conceded control
1078
01:20:31,261 --> 01:20:33,871
of the entire
Trans-Appalachian West.
1079
01:20:33,916 --> 01:20:36,876
It was an incredible bounty
1080
01:20:36,919 --> 01:20:38,789
for the new nation.
1081
01:20:41,488 --> 01:20:43,358
[music continues]
1082
01:20:47,016 --> 01:20:49,186
[male narrator]
Free from British rule
1083
01:20:49,235 --> 01:20:52,015
American settlers race
to claim their piece
1084
01:20:52,064 --> 01:20:54,114
of the frontier.
1085
01:20:54,153 --> 01:20:56,853
Over the next decade
1086
01:20:56,895 --> 01:20:59,325
thousands of settlers
flood west
1087
01:20:59,376 --> 01:21:03,726
along the trails blazed
by men like Daniel Boone
1088
01:21:03,771 --> 01:21:06,341
but they will soon learn
a hard lesson.
1089
01:21:12,258 --> 01:21:14,088
[dramatic music]
1090
01:21:25,750 --> 01:21:27,400
[John]
While the British Army
had surrendered
1091
01:21:27,447 --> 01:21:30,797
the native people
in the west never surrendered.
1092
01:21:30,842 --> 01:21:33,632
[male narrator]
Native Americans
still claim this land
1093
01:21:33,671 --> 01:21:36,111
and Tecumseh, now grown
1094
01:21:36,152 --> 01:21:39,292
is about to reignite
the fight for the frontier.
1095
01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:45,940
[men whooping]
1096
01:21:45,988 --> 01:21:48,378
[music continues]
1097
01:21:56,781 --> 01:22:00,261
[male narrator] Next time on the "Men Who Built America, Frontiersmen.."
1098
01:22:02,178 --> 01:22:05,568
As the new nation pushes
relentlessly west
1099
01:22:05,616 --> 01:22:08,266
the frontier becomes
a bloody battleground.
1100
01:22:08,314 --> 01:22:12,234
Tecumseh recognizes that
if the natives are to survive
1101
01:22:12,275 --> 01:22:15,275
they need to band together.
1102
01:22:15,321 --> 01:22:17,371
[male narrator]
Surrounded by enemies
1103
01:22:17,410 --> 01:22:20,330
Thomas Jefferson
makes a bold move
1104
01:22:20,370 --> 01:22:22,630
that could cost him
the presidency.
1105
01:22:22,676 --> 01:22:25,026
The Louisiana Purchase
was the greatest
1106
01:22:25,070 --> 01:22:28,550
real estate deal
in the history of the world.
1107
01:22:28,595 --> 01:22:30,155
[male narrator]
He launches
one of the most daring
1108
01:22:30,206 --> 01:22:33,296
expeditions
in American history.
1109
01:22:33,339 --> 01:22:35,909
[Steven]
If you want to get a sense
for how mysterious
1110
01:22:35,951 --> 01:22:39,561
the western lands were to the Lewis and Clark expedition
1111
01:22:39,606 --> 01:22:43,176
it was as strange to them
as it would be
1112
01:22:43,219 --> 01:22:46,049
for you or me
to step foot on Mars.
1113
01:22:48,180 --> 01:22:50,620
[male narrator]
Then, as a new generation
1114
01:22:50,661 --> 01:22:52,971
of frontiersmen emerges
1115
01:22:53,011 --> 01:22:56,621
Andrew Jackson
stares down an empire.
1116
01:22:56,667 --> 01:22:57,837
Fire!
1117
01:22:59,278 --> 01:23:01,588
[gunshots]
1118
01:23:01,628 --> 01:23:03,498
[explosions]
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