article_snippet: The Michigan steel mill worker, toting a 40-pound backpack started in Tennessee, wound into Virginia and took him to hallowed ground in Kentucky — the place where Fort Boonesborough was built in 1775 after Boone and Boone band of axe men had carved out Boone Trace.
article_snippet: Fox's father, John Fox, is president of Friends of Boone Trace, a nonprofit group that hopes to preserve the historic route as a hiking trail and a memorial to the pioneers. '
article_snippet: Explorer: Daniel Boone and Daniel Boone band of axe
article_snippet: men had carved out Boone Trace in the 1700s.  
highlights_snippet: The Michigan steel mill worker, toting a 40-pound backpack started in Tennessee, wound into Virginia and took him to the place where Fort Boonesborough was built in 1775 in Kentucky .
  