In May, Squire Boone fared forth, taking with him the season's catch of beaver, otter, and deerskins to exchange in the North Carolinian trading houses for more supplies; and Daniel was left solitary in Kentucky.
Now followed those lonely explorations which gave Daniel Boone his special fame above all Kentucky's pioneers.

He was by no means the first white man to enter Kentucky; and when he did enter, it was as one of a party, under another man's guidance--if we except his former disappointing journey into the laurel thickets of Floyd County.

But these others, barring Stewart, who fell there, turned back when they met with loss and hardship and measured the certain risks against the possible gains.

Boone, the man of imagination, turned to wild earth as to his kin.

His genius lay in the sense of oneness he felt with his wilderness environment.