<P> The U.S. Navy's James Madison - class Polaris submarine USS Daniel Boone (SSBN - 629), was named after Boone . </P> <P> Boone emerged as a legend in large part because of land speculator John Filson's "The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon", part of his book The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke . First published in 1784, Filson's book was a pamphlet primarily intended to popularize Kentucky to immigrants . It was soon translated into French and German, and made Boone famous in America and Europe . Based on interviews with Boone, Filson's book contained a mostly factual account of Boone's adventures from the exploration of Kentucky through the American Revolution . However, because the real Boone was a man of few words, Filson invented florid, philosophical dialogue for this "autobiography". Subsequent editors cut some of these passages and replaced them with more plausible--but still spurious--ones . Often reprinted, Filson's book established Boone as one of the first popular heroes of the United States . </P> <P> Like John Filson, Timothy Flint also interviewed Boone, and his Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky (1833) became one of the best - selling biographies of the 19th century . Flint greatly embellished Boone's adventures, doing for Boone what Parson Weems did for George Washington . In Flint's book, Boone fought hand - to - paw with a bear, escaped from Indians by swinging on vines (as Tarzan would later do), and so on . Although Boone's family thought the book was absurd, Flint greatly influenced the popular conception of Boone, since these tall tales were recycled in countless dime novels and books aimed at young boys . </P> <P> Thanks to Filson's book, in Europe, Boone became a symbol of the "natural man" who lives a virtuous, uncomplicated existence in the wilderness . This was most famously expressed in Lord Byron's epic poem Don Juan (1822), which devoted a number of stanzas to Boone, including this one: </P>

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