Answer: Lack of a Strong Existing campaign-finance network
Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then part of Virginia but on the other side of the mountains from the settled areas.
This statement is true. He was a single child and was sickly most of his childhood and he learned to read only when he was eight, which was odd considering that he was already writing stories at the time, that is, he didn't write them himself but rather dictated stories to his Mother or his Nurse who would write it down for him before he learned to do it himself.
