Heather Angel was in another pioneering epic in 1936, The Last of the Mohicans, with Randolph Scott.
This film received its earliest documented telecasts in Cleveland Wednesday 1 September 1948 on WEWS (Channel 5), in New York City Thursday 25 November 1948 on WCBS (Channel 2), in Syracuse Thursday 10 February 1949 on WHEN (Channel 8), in Los Angeles Sunday 10 April 1949 on KTLA (Channel 5), in Salt Lake City Monday 11 July 1949 on KDYL (Channel 4), and in Detroit Thursday 8 September 1949 on WJBK (Channel 2).
Many films and television shows based on the life of Daniel Boone have been made, including the short film Daniel Boone (1923), which was part of the Yale University Press's Chronicles of America series; Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness (1926), a Sunset Productions film starring Roy Stewart and directed by either Frank S. Mattison or Robert N. Bradbury; Young Daniel Boone (1950), a Monogram production starring David Bruce and directed by Reginald Le Borg; Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956), a Republic picture starring Bruce Bennett and directed by Albert C. Gannaway and Ismael Rodríguez, and the NBC television series Daniel Boone (1964), which starred Fess Parker and ran from 1964 to 1970.
Prologue: "No figure in early American history stands out more heroically than that of Daniel Boone. While imaginative in some respects, the story as presented here, is faithful to the character and times."
"In 1775, thirty settlers with their wives and children prepared to follow Boone from their home settlement in Yadkin, North Carolina, across the mountains into Kain-tu-kee, called by the Indians 'The dark and bloody ground.'"
"At this time Simon Girty, a ferocious white renegade and leader among the Indians, was ravaging the frontier settlements with fire and massacre."
"In 1775, thirty settlers with their wives and children prepared to follow Boone from their home settlement in Yadkin, North Carolina, across the mountains into Kain-tu-kee, called by the Indians 'The dark and bloody ground.'"
"At this time Simon Girty, a ferocious white renegade and leader among the Indians, was ravaging the frontier settlements with fire and massacre."