Carolina QuotesI've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.
Daniel Boone Connected to the Carolinas
Source
As quoted in Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993) by John Mack Faragher p. 301
- year
- 1993
- locator
- p. 301
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