Daniel Boone and the Opening of the American West takes you back in time to the battleground that was the Kentucky frontier; it traces the life of Daniel Boone from his birth near Reading, Pennsylvania in 1734, through his years in Kentucky and to his death in St. Charles County, Missouri in 1820. Against the backdrop of the American Revolution, Daniel Boone explores an ordinary man living in extraordinary times
who was destined to settle and defend the beautiful, but often fiercely unforgiving, wilderness of Kentucky that became known as “the dark and bloody ground.”
A vast number of Boone documents, portraiture and imagery have been collected
for use in the production, along with thrilling action scenes using more than 100
actors and actresses, and filmed at more than thirty locations known to Boone
in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri.
Credits
Starring: Scott New (Daniel Boone), Andy Thomas (elder Daniel Boone in Missouri),
Danny Hinton (John Finley), Maggie Teague (Rebecca Boone);
Original score composed by Clark Cranfill; Historical Consultant, Neil O. Hammon;
Written and Hosted by Kent Masterson Brown; Associate Producer, Paul Noel;
Produced by Witnessing History, LLC and Rockcastle Productions; Executive Producer Thomas P. Dupree, Sr.; Associate Director, Billy Heck; Directed by Kent Masterson Brown
Sponsors
The Filson Historical Society, Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau, The Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, Dupree Financial Group, Lexington, Kentucky, Richmond Tourism, Richmond, Kentucky, The Bluegrass Region Convention and Visitors Bureau, The McConnell Center at the University of Louisville
