{"1": {"fulltext": "MVMNMI^^\\nJ S- C ABBOTT", "height": "3163", "width": "2091", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Daniel Boone\\nPioneer of Kentucky\\nBy\\nJOHN S. C. ABBOTT\\nn\\n1\\nNew York\\nDodd, Mead and Company\\n1898", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Bns 11724\\nLibrary of ConfjreKR\\nTwo COf fS ^fCF\u00c2\u00bbV\u00e2\u0082\u00ac3\\nJUN 28 I9C0\\nSCCXNft COPV,\\nOP0\u00c2\u00a3R 9lV4SiON,\\nCopyright, 1S72,\\nfeT^^j^\\nKAl).", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThe name of Daniel Boone is a conspicuous one in\\nthe annals of our country. And yet there are but\\nfew who are familiar with the events of his wonderful\\ncareer, or who have formed a correct estimate of the\\ncharacter of the man. Many suppose that he was a\\nrough, coarse backwoodsman, almost as savage as the\\nbears he pursued in the chase, or the Indians whose\\nterrors he so perseveringly braved. Instead of this\\nhe was one of the most mild and unboastful of men\\nfeminine as a woman in his tastes and his deport-\\nment, never uttering a coarse word, never allowing-\\nhimself in a rude action. He was truly one of nature s\\ngentle men. With all this instinctive refinement and\\ndelicacy, there was a boldness of character which\\nseemed absolutely incapable of experiencing the\\nemotion of fear. And surely all the records of chivalr\\nmay be searched in vain for a career more full of peril\\nand of wild adventure.\\nThis narrative reveals a state of society and habi-\\ntudes of life now rapidly passing into oblivion. It is", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "IV\\nvery desirable that the record should be perpetuated,\\nthat we may know the scenes through which out\\nfathers passed, in laying the foundations of this majes-\\ntic Republic. It is probable that as the years roll on\\nthe events which occurred in the infancy of our nation\\nwill be read with ever-increasing interest.\\nIt is the intention of the publisher of this volume to\\nissue a series of sketches of the prominent men in the\\nearly history of our country. The next volume will\\ncontain the life and adventures of the renowned Miles\\nStandish, the Puritan Captain.\\nJOHN S. C. ABBOTT\\nFair Haven, Conn.", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nFaob\\nOiscoyery of the New World. Of Florida. Conquest \u00c2\u00abnd cra-\\nelties of DeSoto. The Wigwam. Colony at St. Mary. Sir\\nWalter Releigh and his Colonies. Grant of King James.\\nSettlements in the Virginia. Adventures of John Smith.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nArrival of Lord Delaware Terrible massacres. Pressures\\nof Colonists to the West. Doherty Trade with Indians.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nAttempted Colony on the Tennessee. Daniel Boone 9\\nCHAPTER II.\\nTrials of the Colonists. George Boone and his home. Squire\\nBoone. Birth and character of Daniel Boone. His limited\\neducation. A pioneer s camp. A log house and furnish-\\nings. Annoyance of Boone on the arrival of Scotch emi-\\ngrants. His longings for adventure. Camp meetings.\\nFrontier life. Sports. Squirrel hunting. Snuffing the\\ncandle 36\\nCHAPTER III.\\nLouisiana, and its eventful history. The expedition of DeSoto.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094The Missionary Marquette. His voyage on the Upper\\nMississippi. The Expedition of La Salle. Michilimackl-\\nnac Its History. Fate of the Griffin. Grief of La\\nSalle. His voyage of Discovery. Sale of Louisiana to the\\nIkiited State. ^Remarks of Napoleon 74", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTEK I f.\\nPaoi\\nJohn Finley and his adventures. Aspect of the Country.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoone s Private Character. His Love for the Wilderness.\\nFirst view of Kentucky. Emigrants Dress. Hunter s\\nHome. Capture of Boone and Stewart by the Indians.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTheir Escape. Singular Incident 8t\\nCHAPTER V.\\nAlleghany Ridges. Voyage in a canoe. Speech of Logan.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBattle at the Kanawha. Narrative of Francis Marion.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nImportant commission of Boone. Council at Circleville.\\nTreaty of Peace. Imlay s description of Kentucky. Settle-\\nment right. Richard Henderson. Boone s letter. Fort\\nat Boonesborough 109\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nEmigration to Boonesborough. New Perils. Transylvania\\nCompany. Beneficence of its Laws Interesting incident.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u0094Infamous conduct of Great Britain. Attack on the Fort.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Reinforcements. Simon Kenton and his Sufferings.\\nMrs. Harvey 129\\nCHAPTRE VII.\\nStewart killed by the Indians. Squire Boone returns to the\\nSettlements.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Solitary Life of Daniel Boone. Return of\\nSquire Boone. Extended and Romantic Explorations.\\nCharms and Perils of the Wilderness. The Emigrant Party.\\nThe Fatal Ambuscade. Retreat of the Emigrants.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSolitude of the Wilderness. Expedition of Lewis and\\nClarke. Extraordinary Adventures of Cotter 151\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nHeroism of Thomas Higgins and of Mrs. Pursley. Affairs at\\nBoonesborough.^ Continued Alarms. Need of Salt. Its", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS. VII\\nPagb\\nManufacture. Indian Schemes. Capture of Boone and\\ntwenty-seven men. Dilemma of the British at Detroit.\\nBlackfish adopts Colonel Boone. Adoption Ceremony.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nIndian Designs. Escape of Boone.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Attacks the Savages.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094The Fort Threatened 182\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nSituation of the Fort. Indian Treachery. Bombardment,\\nBoone goes to North Carolina. New Trials. Boone\\nRobbed. He returns to Kentucky. Massacre of Colonel\\nRogers. Adventure of Col. Bowman. New Attack by the\\nBritish and Indians. Retaliatory Measures. Wonderful\\nExploit 209\\nCHAPTER X.\\nDeath of Squire Boone. Indian Outrages. Gerty and McQee.\\nBattle of Blue Lick. Death of Isaac Boone. Colonel\\nBoone s Narrow Escape. Letter of Daniel Boone.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Deter-\\nmination of General Clarke. Discouragement of the\\nSavages. Amusing Anecdote of Daniel Boone 230\\nCHAPTER XL\\nPeace with England. Order of a Kentucky Conrt. Anecdotea.\\nSpeech of Mr. Dalton. Reply of Plankashaw.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Renewed\\nIndications of Indian Hostility. Conventions at Danville.\\nKentucky formed into a State. New Trials for Boone. 24^\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nThe Search for the Horse. Navigating the Ohio. Heroism of\\nMrs. Rowan. Lawless Gangs. Exchange of Prisoners.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoone Revisits the Home of his Childhood. The Realms\\nbeyond the Mississippi. Habits of the Hunters. Com.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoone s Journey to the West 271", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "VIII CONTENTS.\\nPaok\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nColonel Boone welcomed by the Spanish Authorities, Boone i\\nNarrative to Audubon. The Midnight Attack. Purstiit\\nof the Savages, Sickness in the Wilderness, Honesty of\\nColonel Boone, Payment of hie Debts. Losg of all his\\nProperty 291\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nCrolonel Boone Appeals to Congress. Complimentary Resolu-\\ntions of the Legislature of Kentucky. Death of Mrs. Boone.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Catholic Liberality. Itinerant Preachers. Grant by\\nCongress to Colonel Boone The Evening of his Days.\\nPersonal Appearance. Death and Burial. Transference of\\nthe Remains of Mr. and Mrs. Boone to Francfort, Kentucky. 320", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER I.\\nThe Discovery and early Settlement of America*\\nIHscovery of the New World. Of Florida. Conquest and orueltiefi\\nof Desoto. The wigwam. Colony at St. Mary. Sir Walt\u00c2\u00abi\\nBelelgh and his Colonies. Grant of King James. Settlements\\nIn the Virginia. Adventures of John Smith. Arrival of Lord\\nDelaware. ^Terrible massacres. Pressures of Colonists to the\\nWest. Doherty Trade with Indians. Attempted Colony on the\\nTennessee. Daniel Boone.\\nThe little fleet of three small vessels, with which\\nColumbus left Pales in Spain, in search of a new\\nworld, had been sixty-seven days at sea. They had\\ntraversed nearly three thousand miles of ocean, and\\nyet there was nothing but a wide expanse of waters\\nspread out before them. The despairing crew were\\nloud in their murmurs, demanding that the expedition\\nshould be abandoned and that the ships should return\\nto Spain. The morning of the nth of October, 1492,\\nhad come. During the day Columbus, whose heart\\nhad been very heavily oppressed with anxiety, had\\nbeen cheered by some indications that they were\\napproaching land. Fresh seaweed was occasionally\\nseen and a branch of a shrub with leaves and berries\\nupon it, and a piece of wood curiously carved had\\nbeen picked up.", "height": "3158", "width": "2013", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "lO DANIEL BOONE.\\nThe devout commander was so animated by these\\nindications, that he gathered his crew around him and\\nreturned heartfelt thanks to God, for this prospect\\nthat their voyage would prove successful. It was a\\nbeautiful night, the moon shone brilliantly and a deli-\\ncious tropical breeze swept the ocean. At ten o clock\\nColumbus stood upon the bows of his ship earnestly\\ngazing upon the western horizon, hoping that the\\nlong-looked-for land would rise before him. Suddenly\\nhe was startled by the distinct gleam of a torch far off\\nin the distance. For a moment it beemed forth with\\na clear and indisputable flame and then disappeared.\\nThe agitation of Columbus no words can describe.\\nWas it a meteor Was it an optical illusion Was it\\nlight from the land\\nSuddenly the torch, like a star, again shone forth\\nwith distinct though faint gleam. Columbus called\\nsome of his companions to his side and they also\\nsaw the light clearly. But again it disappeared. At\\ntwo o clock in the morning a sailor at the look out on\\nthe mast head shooted, Land land land In a\\nfew moments all beheld, but a few miles distant from\\nthem, the distinct outline of towering mountains\\npiercing the skies. A new world was discovered.\\nCautiously the vessels hove to and waited for the\\nlight of the morning. The dawn of day presented\\nto the eyes of Columbus and his companions a spec*", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. 1 1\\ntacle of beauty which the garden of Eden could hardly\\nhave rivalled. It was a morning of the tropics, calm\\nserene and lovely. But two miles before them there\\nemerged from the sea an island of mountains and\\nvalleys, luxuriant with every variety of tropical ve-\\ngetation. The voyagers, weary of gazing for many\\nweeks on the wide waste of waters, were so enchanted\\nwith the fairy scene which then met the eye, that they\\nseemed really to believe that they had reached the\\nrealms of the blest.\\nThe boats were lowered, and, as they were rowed\\ntowards the shore, the scene every moment grew more\\nbeautiful. Gigantic trees draped in luxuriance of\\nfoliage hitherto unimagined, rose in the soft valleys\\nand upon the towering hills. In the sheltered groves,\\nscreened from the sun, the picturesque dwellings of\\nthe natives were thickly clustered. Flowers of every\\nvariety of tint bloomed in marvellous profusion. The\\ntrees seemed laden with fruits of every kind, and\\nin inexhaustible abundance. Thousands of natives\\ncrowded the shore, whose graceful forms and exqui-\\nsitely moulded limbs indicated the innocence and sim-\\nplicity of Eden before the fall.\\nColumbus, richly attired in a scarlet dress, fell upon\\nhis knees as he reached the beach, and, with clasped\\nhands and uplifted eyes, gave utterance to the devout\\nfeelings which ever inspired him, in thanksgiving to", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12 DANIEL BOONE.\\nGod. In recognition of the divine protection he gave\\nthe island the name of San Salvador, or Holy Savior,\\nThough the new world thus discovered was one of\\nthe smallest islands of the Caribbean Sea, no concep-\\ntion wsLS then formed of the vast continents of North\\nand South America, stretching out in both directions,\\nfor many leagues almost to the Arctic and Antarctic\\npoles.\\nOmitting a description of the wonderful adventures\\nwhich ensued, we can only mention that two years\\nafter this, the southern extremity of the North Amer-\\nican continent was discovered by Sebastian Cabot.\\nIt was in the spring of the year and the whole surface\\nof the soil seemed carpeted with the most brilliant\\nflowers. The country consequently received the beau-\\ntiful name of Florida. It, of course, had no boun-\\ndaries, for no one knew with certainty whether it were\\nan island or a continent, or how far its limits might\\nextend.\\nThe years rolled on and gradually exploring excur-\\nsions crept along the coast towards the north, various\\nprovinces were mapped out with pretty distinct boun-\\ndaries upon tlie Atlantic coast, extending indefinitely\\ninto the vast and unknown interior. Expeditions\\nfrom France had entered the St. Lawrence and estab\u00c2\u00ab\\nlished settlements in Canada. For a time the whole\\nAtlantic coast, from its extreme southern point to", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. 1 3\\nCanada, was called Florida In the year 1539, Fer-\\ndinand de Soto, an unprincipled Spanish warrior, who\\nhad obtained renown by the conquest of Peru in\\nSouth America, fitted out by permission of the king\\nof Spain, an expedition of nearly a thousand men to\\nconquer and take possession of that vast and indefi-\\nnite realm called Florida.\\nWe have no space here to enter upon a description\\nof the fiendlike cruelties practiced by these Spaniards.\\nThey robbed and enslaved without mercy. In pur-\\nsuit of gold they wandered as far north as the pre-\\nsent boundary of South Carolina. Then turning to\\nthe west, they traversed the vast region to the Missis-\\nsippi river. The forests were full of game. The gran-\\naries of the simple-hearted natives were well stored\\nwith corn vast prairies spreading in all directions\\naround them, waving with grass and blooming with\\nflowers, presented ample forage for the three hundred\\nhorses which accompanied the expedition. They\\nwere also provided with fierce bloodhounds to hunt\\ndown the terrified natives. Thus invincible and armed\\nwith the thunder and lightning of their guns, they\\nswept the country, perpetrating every conceivable\\noutrage upon the helpless natives.\\nAfter long and unavailing wanderings in search ol\\ngold, having lost by sickness and the casualties of\\nsuch an expedition nearly half their number, the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14 DANIEL BOONE.\\nremainder built boats upon the Mississippi, descended\\nthat rapid stream five hundred miles to its mouth,\\nand then skirting the coast of Texas, finally disap-\\npeared on the plains of Mexico. De Soto, the leader\\nof this conquering band, died miserably on the Mis-\\nsissippi, and was buried beneath its waves.\\nThe whole country which these adventurers tra-\\nversed, they found to be quite densely populated with\\nnumerous small tribes of natives, each generally wan-\\ndering within circumscribed limits. Though these\\ntribes spoke different languages, or perhaps different\\ndialects of the same language, they were essentially\\nthe same in appearance, manners and customs. They\\nwere of a dark-red color, well formed and always dis-\\nposed to receive the pale face strangers with kind-\\nliness, until exasperated by ill-treatment. They lived\\nin fragile huts called wigwams, so simple in their\\nstructure that one could easily be erected in a few\\nhours. These huts were generally formed by setting\\nlong and slender poles in the ground, inclosing an\\narea of from ten to eighteen feet in diameter, accord-\\ning to the size of the family. The tops were tied\\ntogether, leaving a hole for the escape of smoke from\\nthe central fire. The sides were thatched with coarse\\ngrass, or so covered with the bark of trees, as quite\\neffectually to exclude both wind and rain. There were\\nno windows, light entering only throi^h the almost", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. 1 5\\nalways open door. The ground floor was covered\\nwith dried grass, or the skins of animals, or with the\\nsoft and fragrant twigs of some evergreen tree.\\nThe inmates, men, women and children, seated\\nupon these cushions, presented a very attractive\\nand cheerful aspect. Several hundred of these wig-\\nwams were frequently clustered upon some soft\\nmeadow by the side of a flowing stream, fringed with\\na gigantic forest, and exhibited a spectacle of pictu-\\nresque loveliness quite charming to the beholder. The\\nfurniture of these humble abodes was extremely\\nsimple. They had no pots or kettles which would\\nstand the fire. They had no knives nor forks no\\ntables nor chairs. Sharp flints, such as they could\\nfind served for knives, with which, with incredible\\nlabor, they sawed down small trees and fashioned\\ntheir bows and arrows. They had no roads except\\nfoot paths through the wilderness, which for genera-\\ntions their ancestors had traversed, called trails.\\nThey had no beasts of burden, no cows, no flocks nor\\nherds of any kind. They generally had not even\\nsalt, but cured their meat by drying it in the sun.\\nThey had no ploughs, hoes, spades, consequently they\\ncould only cultivate the lightest soil. With a sharp\\nstick, women loosened the earth, and then depositing\\ntheir com or maize, cultivated it in the rudest\\nmanner.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "l6 DANIEL BOONE.\\nThese Indians acquired the reputation of being very\\nfaithful friends, but very bitter enemies. It was said\\nthey never forgot a favor, and never forgave an insult\\nThey were cunning rather than brave. It was seldom\\nthat an Indian could be induced to meet a foe in an\\nopen hand-to-hand fight But he would track him\\nfor years, hoping to take him unawares and to brain\\nhim with the tomahawk, or pierce his heart with the\\nflint-pointed arrow.\\nAbout the year 1565, a company of French Pro-\\ntestants repaired to Florida, hoping there to find the\\nliberty to worship God in accordance with their inter-\\npretation of the teachings of the Bible. They estab-\\nlished quite a flourishing colony, at a place which they\\nnamed St. Marys, near the coast This was the first\\nEuropean settlement on the continent of North Am-\\nerica. The fanatic Spaniards, learning that Protestants\\nhad taken possession of the country, sent out an\\nexpedition and utterly annihilated the settlement,\\nputting men, women and children to the sword. Many\\nof these unfortunate Protestants were hung in chains\\nfrom trees under the inscription, Not as Frenchmen\\nbut as Heretics^ The blood-stained Spaniards then\\nestablished themselves at a spot near by, which they\\ncalled St Augustine. A French gentleman of wealth\\nfitted out a well-manned and well-armed expedition\\nof three ships attacked the murderers by surprise and", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA, i;\\nput them to death. Several corpses were suspended\\nfrom trees, under the inscription, Not as Spaniards^\\nbut as Murderers^\\nThere was an understanding among the powers of\\nEurope, that any portion of the New World discov-\\nered by expeditions from European courts, should be\\nrecognised as belonging to that court. The Spaniards\\nhad taken possession in Florida. Far away a thousand\\nleagues to the North, the French had entered the gulf\\nof St Lawrence. But little was known of the vast\\nregion between. A young English gentleman, Sir\\nWalter Raleigh, an earnest Protestant, and one who\\nhad fought with the French Protestants in their reli-\\ngious wars, roused by the massacre of his friends in\\nFlorida, applied to the British court to fit out a colony\\nto take possession of the intermediate country. He\\nhoped thus to prevent the Spanish monarchy, and the\\nequally intolerant French court, from spreading their\\nprinciples over the whole continent. The Protestant\\nQueen Elisabeth then occupied the throne of Great\\nBritain. Raleigh was young, rich, handsome and mar-\\nvelously fascinating in his address. He became a\\ngreat favorite of the maiden queen, and she gave him\\na commission, making him lord of all the continent\\nof North America, between Florida and Canada.\\nThe whole of this vast region without any accurate\\nboundaries, was called Virginia. Several ships were", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "1 8 DANIEL BOONE.\\nsent to exploie the country. They reached the coast\\nof what is now called North Carolina, and the adven-\\nturers landed at Roanoke Island. They were charmed\\nwith the climate, with the friendliness of the natives\\nand with the majestic growth of the forest trees, far\\nsurpassing anything they had witnessed in the Old\\nWorld. Grapes in rich clusters hung in profusion on\\nthe vines, and birds of every variety of song and\\nplumage filled the groves. The expedition returned\\nto England with such glowing accounts of the realm\\nthey had discovered, that seven ships were fitted out,\\nconveying one hundred and eight men, to colonise\\nthe island. It is quite remarkable that no women\\naccompanied the expedition. Many of these men\\nwere reckless adventurers. Bitter hostility soon sprang\\nup between them and the Indians, who at first had\\nreceived them with the greatest kindness.\\nMost of these colonists were men unaccustomed\\nto work, and who insanely expected that in the New\\nWorld, in some unknown way, wealth was to flow in\\nupon them like a flood. Disheartened, homesick and\\nappalled by the hostile attitude which the much op-\\npressed Indians were beginning to assume, they were\\nall anxious to return home. When, soon after, some\\nships came bringing them abundant supplies, they\\nwith one accord abandoned the colony, and crowding\\nthe vessels returned to England. Fifteen men howevef", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. 19\\nconsented to remain, to await the arrival of fresh\\ncolonists from the Mother Country.\\nSir Walter Raleigh, still undiscouraged, in the next\\nyear 1587 sent out another fleet containing a number\\nof families as emigrants, with women and children.\\nWhen they arrived, they found Roanoke deserted. The\\nfifteen men had been murdered by the Indians in\\nretaliation for the murder of their chief and several of\\nhis warriors by the English. With fear and trembling\\nthe new settlers decided to remain, urging the friends\\nwho had accompanied them to hasten back to England\\nwith the ships and bring them reinforcements and\\nsupplies. Scarcely had they spread their sails on the\\nreturn voyage ere war broke out with Spain. It was\\nthree years before another ship crossed the ocean, to\\nsee what had become of the colony. It had utterly\\ndisappeared. Though many attempts were made to\\nascertain its tragic fate, all were unavailing. It is\\nprobable that many were put to death by the Indians,\\nand perhaps the children were carried far back into\\nthe interior and incorporated into their tribes. This\\nbitter disappointment seemed to paralyse the energies\\nof colonization. For more than seventy years the\\nCarolinas remained a wilderness, with no attempt to\\ntransfer to them the civilization of the Old World. Still\\nEnglish ships continued occasionally to visit the coast\\nSome came to fish, some to purchase furs of the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20 DANIEL BOONE.\\nIndians, and some for timber for shipbuilding, The\\nstories which these voyagers told on their return,\\nkept up an interest in the New World. It was indeed\\nan attractive picture which could be truthfully painted.\\nThe climate was mild, genial and salubrious. The\\natmosphere surpassed the far-famed transparency of\\nItalian skies. The forests were of gigantic growth,\\nmore picturesquely beautiful than any ever planted\\nby man s hand, and they were filled with game. The\\nlakes and streams swarmed with fish. A wilderness\\nof flowers, of every variety of loveliness, bloomed over\\nthe wide meadows and the broad savannahs, which\\nthe forest had not yet invaded. Berries and fruits\\nwere abundant. In many places the soil was surpass-\\ningly rich, and easily tilled and all this was open,\\nwithout money and without price, to the first comer.\\nStill more than a hundred years elapsed after the\\ndiscovery of these realms, ere any permanent settle-\\nment was effected upon them. Most of the bays,\\nharbors and rivers were unexplored, and reposed as\\nit were in the solemn silence of eternity. From the\\neverglades of Florida to the firclad hills of Nova\\nScotia, not a settlement of white men could be found.\\nAt length in the year 1607, a number of wealthy\\ngentlemen in London formed a company to make a\\nnew attempt for the settlement of America. It was\\ntheir plan to send out hardy colonists, abundantly", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. 21\\nprovided with arms, tools and provisions. King\\nJames I., who had succeeded his cousin Queen EHza-\\nbeth, granted them a charter, by which, wherever they\\nmight effect a landing, they were to be the undisputed\\nlords of a territory extending a hundred miles along\\nthe coast, and running back one hundred miles into\\nthe interior. Soon after, a similar grant was conferred\\nupon another association, for the region of North\\nVirginia, now called New England.\\nUnder the protection of this London Company, one\\nhundred and five men, with no women or children,\\nembarked in three small ships for the Southern\\nAtlantic coast of North America. Apparently by\\naccident, they entered Chesapeake Bay, where they\\nfound a broad and deep stream, whicn they named\\nafter their sovereign, James River. As they ascended\\nthis beautiful stream, they were charmed with the\\nloveliness which nature had spread so profusely around\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0096\u00a0hem Upon the northern banks of the river, about\\nfifty miles from its entrance into the bay, they selected\\na spot for their settlement, which they named James-\\ntown Here they commenced cutting down trees and\\nraising their huts.\\nIn an enterprise of this kind, muscles mured to work\\nand determined spirits ready to grapple with diffi-\\nculties, are essential. In such labors, the most useless\\nof all beings is the gentleman with soft hands and", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22 DANIEL BOONE.\\nluxurious habits. Unfortunately quite a number of\\npampered sons of wealth had joined the colony.\\nBeing- indolent, selfish and dissolute, they could do\\nabsolutely nothing for the prosperity of the settlement,\\nbut were only an obstacle in the way of its growth.\\n1 roubles soon began to multiply, and but for the\\nenergies of a remarkable man, Capt. John Smith, the\\ncolony must soon have perished through anarchy.\\nBut even Capt. John Smith v/ith all his commanding\\npowers, and love of justice and of law, could not pre-\\nvent the idle and profligate young men from insulting\\nthe natives, and robbing them of their corn. With\\nthe autumnal rains sickness came, and many died.\\nThe hand of well-organised industry might have\\nraised an ample supply of corn to meet all their wants\\nthrough the short winter. But this had been neglected,\\nand famine was added to sickness, Capt. Smith had\\nso won the confidence of the Indian chieftains, that\\nnotwithstanding the gross irregularities of his young\\nmen, they brought him supplies of corn and game,\\nwhich they freely gave to the English in their desti-\\ntution.\\nCaptain Smith having thus provided for the necessi-\\nties of the greatly diminished colony, set out with a\\nsmall party of men on an exploring expedition into\\nthe interior. He was waylayed by Indians, who with\\narrows ai?d tomahawks speed ly put all the men to", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. 23\\ndeath, excepting the leader, who was taken captive.\\nThere was something in the demeanor of this brave\\nman which overawed them. He showed them his\\npocket compass, upon which they gazed with wonder.\\nHe then told them that if they would send to the fort a\\nleaf from his pocket-book, upon which he had made\\nseveral marks with his pencil, they would find the\\nnext day, at any spot they might designate, a certain\\nnumber of axes, blankets, and other articles of great\\nvalue to them. Their curiosity was exceedingly\\naroused the paper was sent, and the next day the\\narticles were found as promised. The Indians looked\\nupon Captain Smith as a magician, and treated\\nhim with great respect. Still the more thoughtful of\\nthe natives regarded him as a more formidable foe.\\nThey could not be blind to the vastly superior power\\nof the English in their majestic ships, with their long\\nswords, and terrible fire-arms, and all the develop-\\nments, astounding to them, of a higher civilization.\\nThey were very anxious in view of encroachments\\nwhich might eventually give the English the supre-\\nmacy in their land,\\nPowhatan, the king of the powerful tribe who had\\nat first been very friendly to the English, summoned\\na council of war of his chieftains, and after long\\ndeliberation, it was decided that Captain Smith was\\ntoo powerful a man t^) be allowed to live, and that he", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24 DANIEL BOONE.\\nmust die. He was accordingly led out to execution,\\nbut without any of the ordinary accompaniments of\\ntorture. His hands were bound behind him, he was\\nlaid upon the ground, and his head was placed upon\\na stone. An Indian warrior of herculean strength\\nstood by, with a massive club, to give the death\\nblow by crushing in the scull. Just as the fatal stroke\\nwas about to descend, a beautiful Indian girl, Poca-\\nhontas, the daughter of the king, rushed forward and\\nthrowing her arms around the neck of Captain Smith,\\nplaced her head upon his. The Indians regarded this\\nas an indication from the Great Spirit that the life of\\nCaptain Smith was to be spared, and they set their\\nprisoner at liberty, who, being thus miraculously\\nrescued, returned to Jamestown.\\nBy his wisdom Captain Smith preserved for some\\ntime friendly relations with the Indians, and the\\ncolony rapidly increased, until there were five hundred\\nEuropeans assembled at Jamestown. Capt. Smith\\nbeing severely wounded by an accidental explosion of\\ngunpowder, returned to England for surgical aid.\\nThe colony, thus divested of his vigorous sway,\\nspeedily lapsed into anarchy. The bitter hostility oi\\nthe Indians was aroused, and, within a few months,\\nthe colony dwindled away beneath the ravages of\\nsickness, famine, and the arrows of the Indians, to but\\nsixty men. Desj)air reigned in all hearts, and this", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. 2$\\nstarving remnant of Europeans was preparing to\\nabandon the colony and return to the Old World, when\\nLord Delaware arrived with several ships loaded with\\nprovisions and with a reinforcement of hardy laborers.\\nMost of the idle and profligate young men who had\\nbrought such calamity upon the colony, had died.\\nThose who remained took fresh courage, and affairs\\nbegan to be more prosperous.\\nThe organization of the colony had thus far been\\neffected with very little regard to the wants of human\\nnature. There were no women there. Without the\\nhonored wife there cannot be the happy home and\\nwithout the home there can be no contentment. To\\nherd together five hundred men upon the banks of a\\nforeign stream, three thousand miles from their native\\nland, without women and children, and to expect them\\nto lay the foundation of a happy and prosperous colony,\\nseems almost unpardonable lolly.\\nEmigrants began to arrive with their families, and\\nin the year 1620, one hundred and fifty poor, but\\nvirtuous young women, were induced to join the\\nCompany, Each young man who came received one\\nhundred acres of land. Eagerly these young planters,\\nin short courtship, selected wives from such of these\\nwomen as they could induce to listefy to them Each\\nman paid one hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco to\\ndefray the expenses of his wife s voyage. But th j", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26 DANIEL BOONE.\\nWickedness of man will everywhere, and under all\\ncircumstances, make fearful development of its power.\\nMany desperadoes joined the colony. The poor\\nIndians with no weapons of war but anows, clubs and\\nstone tomahawks, were quite at the mercy of the\\nEnglish with their keen swords, and death-dealing\\nmuskets. Fifteen Europeans could easily drive several\\nhundred Indians in panic over the plains. Unprinci-\\npled men perpetrated the grossest outrages upon the\\nfamilies of the Indians, often insulting the proudest\\nchiefs.\\nThe colonists were taking up lands in all directions.\\nBefore their unerring rifles, game was rapidly\\ndisappearing. The Indians became fully awake to\\ntheir danger. The chiefs met in council, and a\\nconspiracy was formed, to put, at an appointed hour,\\nall the English to death, every man, woman and child\\nEvery house was marked. Two or three Indians were\\nappointed to make the massacre sure in each dwelling.\\nThey were to spread over the settlement, enter the\\nwidely scattered log-huts, as friends, and at a certain\\nmoment were to spring upon their unsuspecting\\nvictims, and kill them instantly. The plot was\\nfearfully successful in all the dwellings outside the\\nlittle village of Jamestown. In one hour, on the 22nd\\nof March, 1622, three hundred and forty-seven men,\\nwomen and children were massacred in cold blood", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. 2*f\\nThe colony would have been annihilated, but for a\\nChristian Indian who, just before the massacre com-\\nmenced, gave warning to a friend in Jamestown. The\\nEuropeans rallied with their fire-arms, and easily\\ndrove off their foes, and then commenced the unre-\\nlenting extermination of the Indians. An arrow can\\nbe thrown a few hundred feet, a musket ball more than\\nas many yards. The Indians were consequently\\nhelpless. The English shot down both sexes, young\\nand old, as mercilessly as if they had been wolves.\\nThey seized their houses, their lands, their pleasant\\nvillages. The Indians were either slain or driven far\\naway from the houses of their fathers, into the remote\\nwilderness.\\nThe colony now increased rapidly, and the cabins\\nof the emigrants spread farther and farther over the\\nunoccupied lands. These hardy adventurers seemed\\nprovidentially imbued with the spirit of enterprise.\\nInstead of clustering together for the pleasure of\\nsociety and for mutual protection, they were ever\\npushing into the wild and unknown interior, rearing\\ntheir cabins on the banks of distant streams, and\\nestablishing their silent homes in the wildest solitudes\\nof the wilderness. In 1660, quite a number of\\nemigrants moved directly south from Virginia, to the\\nriver Chowan, in what is now South Carolina, where\\nthey established a settlement which they called", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28 DANIEL BOONE.\\nAlbermarle. In 1670, a colony from England estab\u00c2\u00ab\\nlished itself at Charleston, South Carolina. Thus\\ngfradually the Atlantic coast became fringed with\\ncolonies, extending but a few leagues back into the\\ncountry fronr the sea-shore, while the vast interior\\nremained an unexplored wilderness. As the years\\nrolled on, ship-loads of emigrants arrived, new settle-\\nments were established, colonial States rose into being,\\nand, though there were many sanguinary conflicts\\nwith the Indians, the Europeans were always in the\\nend triumphant, and intelligence, wealth, and laws of\\ncivilization were rapidly extended along the Atlantic\\nborder of the New World.\\nFor many years there had been a gradual pressure\\nof the colonists towards the west, steadily encroaching\\nupon the apparently limitless wilderness. To us it\\nseems strange that they did not, for the sake of pro-\\ntection against the Indians, invariably go in military\\nbands. But generally this was not the case. The\\nemigrants seem to have been inspired with a spirit of\\nalmost reckless indifference to danger they apparently\\nioved the solitude of the forest, avoided neighbors\\nwho might interfere with their hunting and trapping,\\nand reared their humble cottages in the wildest ravines\\nof the mountains and upon the smooth meadows\\nwhich border the most solitary streams thus gradually\\nthe tide of emigration, flowing through Indian traili", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. 29\\nand along the forest-covered vines, was approaching\\nthe base of the Alleghany mountains.\\nBut little was known of the character of the bound-\\nless realms beyond the ridges of this gigantic chain\\nOccasionally a wandering Indian who had chased\\nhis game over those remote wilds, would endeavor to\\ndraw upon the sand, with a stick, a map of the country\\nshowing the flow of the rivers, the line of the moun-\\ntains, and the sweep of the open prairies. The Ohio\\nwas then called the Wabash. This magnificent and\\nbeautiful stream is formed by the confluence of the\\nAlleghany and the Monongahela rivers. It was a\\nlong voyage, a voyage of several hundred miles,\\nfollowing the windings of the Monongahela river from\\nits rise among the mountains of Western Virginia till,\\nfar away in the north, it met the flood of the Alleghany,\\nat the present site of the city of Pittsburg. The\\nvoyage, in a birch canoe, required, in the figurative\\nlanguage of the Indians, two paddles, two warriors\\nand three moons.\\nThe Indians very correctly described the Ohio, or\\nthe Wabash, as but the tributary of a much more\\nmajestic stream, far away in the west, which, pouring\\nit J flood through the impenetrable forest, emptied itself\\nthey knew not where. Of the magnitude of this\\ndistant river, the Mississippi, its source, rise and\\ntermination, they could give no intelligible account", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 DANIEL BOONE.\\nThey endeavored to give some idea of the amount\\nof game to be found in those remote realms, by point-\\ning to the leaves of the forest and the stars in the sky.\\nThe settlers were deeply interested and often much\\nexcited by the glowing descriptions thus given them\\nof a terrestrial Eden, where life would seem to be but\\none uninterrupted holiday. Occasionally an adven-\\nturous French or Spanish trader would cross the\\ntowering mountains and penetrate the vales beyond.\\nThey vied with the Indians in their account of the\\nsalubrity of the climate, the brilliance of the skies,\\nthe grandeur of the forests, the magnificence of the\\nrivers, the marvelous fertility of the soil and the\\nabundance of game.\\nAs early as the year 1690 a trader from Virginia,\\nby the namd of Doherty, crossed the mountains,\\nvisited the friendly Cherokee nation, within the present\\nbounds of Georgia, and resided with the natives\\nseveral years. In the year 1730 an enterprising and\\nintelligent man from South Carolina, by the name of\\nAdair, took quite an extensive tour through most of\\nthe villages of the Cherokees, and also visited several\\ntribes south and west of them. He wrote an exceed-\\ningly valuable and interesting account of his travels\\nwhich was published in London.\\nInfluenced by these examples several traders, in the\\nyear 1740, went from Virginia to the couatry of the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. 31\\nCherokees. They carried on pack horses goods which\\nthe Indians valued, and which they exchanged for\\nfurs, which were sold in Europe at an enormous profit.\\nA hatchet, a knife, a trap, a string of beads, which\\ncould be bought for a very small sum in the Atlantic\\ntowns, when exhibited beyond the mountains to\\nadmiring groups in the wigwam of the Indian, could\\nbe exchanged for furs which were of almost priceless\\nvalue in the metropolitan cities of the Old World.\\nThis traffic was mutually advantageous, and so long\\nas peaceful relations existed between the white man\\nand the Indian, was prosecuted with great and ever in-\\ncreasing vigor. The Indians thus obtained the steel\\ntrap, the keenly cutting ax, and the rifle, which he\\nsoon learned to use with unerring aim. He was thus\\nable in a day to obtainmoregamethan with his arrows\\nand his clumsy snares he could secure in a month.\\nThis friendly intercourse was in all respects very\\ndesirable and but for the depravity of the white man\\nit might have continued uninterrupted for generations.\\nBut profligate and vagabond adventurers from the\\nsettlements defrauded the Indians, insulted their\\nwomen, and ofter committed wanton murder. But\\nit would seem that the majority of the traders were\\nhonest men. Ramsay, in his Annals of Tennessee,\\nwrites, in reference to this traffic\\nOther advantages resulted from it to the whites.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32 lANIEL BOONE.\\nThey became thus acquainted with the great avenue*\\nleading through the hunting ground, and to the\\noccupied country of the neighboring tribes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 an im-\\nportant circumstance in the condition of either peace\\nor war. Further the traders were an exact ther-\\nmometer of the pacific or hostile intention and feeUngs\\nof the Indians with whom they traded. Generally\\nthey were foreigners, most frequently Scotchmen,\\nwho had not been long in the country, or upon the\\nfrontier who, having experienced none of the cruelties,\\ndepredations or aggressions of the Indians, cherished\\nnone of the resentment and spirit of retaliation born\\nwith and everywhere manifested by the American\\nsettler.\\nThus free from animosity against the aborigines,\\nthe trader was allowed to remain in the village, where\\nhe traded, unmolested, even where its warriors were\\nsinging the war song or brandishing the war\\nclub, preparatory to an invasion or massacre of the\\nwhites. Timely warning was thus often given by a\\nreturning packman to a feeble and unsuspecting\\nsettlement, of the perfidy and cruelty meditated\\nagainst it.\\nGame on the eastern side of the AUeghanies^\\nhunted down alike by white men and Indians, soon\\nbecame scarce. Adventurers combining the characters\\nof traders and hunters rapidly multiplied. Many of", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. 33\\nthe hunters among the white men far outstripped the\\nIndians in skill and energy. Thus some degree of\\njealousy was excited on the part of the savages. They\\nsaw how rapidly the game was disappearing, and\\nthese thoughtful men began to be anxious for the\\nfuture. With no love for agriculture the destruction\\nof the game was their ruin.\\nAs early as the year 1748 quite a party of gentle-\\nmen explorers, under the leadership of Doctor Thomas\\nWalker of Virginia, crossed a range of the Alleghany\\nmountains, which the Indians called Warioto, but to\\nwhich Doctor Walker gave the name of Cumberland,\\nin honor of the Duke of Cumberland who was then\\nprime minister of England. Follov/ing along this\\nchain in a south-westerly direction, in search of some\\npass or defile by which they could cross the cliffs,\\nthey came to the remarkable depression in the\\nmountains to which they gave the name of Cumberland\\nGap. On the western side of the range they found a\\nbeautiful mountain stream, rushing far away, with\\never increasing volume, into the unknown wilderness,\\nwhich the Indians called Shawnee, but which Doctor\\nWalker s party baptised with the name of Cumberland\\nRiver. These names have adhered to the localities\\nupon which they were thus placed.\\nIn 1756 a feeble attempt was made to establish a\\ncolony upon the Tennessee river, at a spot which was", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34 DANIEL BOONE.\\ncalled London. This was one hundred and fifty\\nmiles in advance of any white settlement. Eight\\nyears passed, and by the ravages of war the little\\nsettlement went up in flame and smoke. As the\\nyears rapidly came and went there were occasional\\nbursts of the tempests of war again there would be\\na short lull and blessed peace would come with its\\nprosperity and joy.\\nIn the year 1 760, Doctor Walker again passed\\nover Clinch and Powell s rivers on a tour of exploration,\\ninto what is now Kentucky. The Cherokees were\\nthen at peace with the whites, and hunters from the\\nback settlements began, with safety, to penetrate\\ndeeper and further into the wilderness of Tennessee.\\nSeveral of them, chiefly from Virginia, hearing of the\\nabundance of game with which the woods were stocked,\\nand allured by the prospect of gain which might be\\ndrawn from this source, formed themselves into a\\ncompany composed of Wallen, Seagys, Blevins, Cox\\nand fifteen others, and came into the valley, since\\nknown as Carter s Valley, in Hawkin s county, Ten-\\nnessee. They hunted eighteen months upon Clincn\\nand Powell rivers. Wallen s Creek and Wallen s Ridge\\nreceived their name from the leader of the company\\nas also did Wallen s Station which they erected in the\\nLee county, Virginia.\\nThey penetrated as far north as Laurel Mountain,", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. 35\\nin Kentucky, where they terminated their journey,\\nhaving met with a body of Indians whom they\\nsupposed to be Shawnees. At the head of one of the\\ncompanies that visited the West, this year, came Daniel\\nBoone from the Yadkin, in North CaroHna, and\\ntravelled with them as low as the place where\\nAbingdon now stands, and there left them.\\nThis is the first time the advent of Daniel Boone to\\nthe western wilds has been mentioned by historians\\nor by the several biographers of that distinguished\\npioneer and hunter. There is reason however to\\nbelieve that he hunted upon Watauga some time\\nearlier than this.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nDaniel Boone his Parentage y and early Adventures,\\nTrials of the Colonists. George Boone and his home. Squire Boone^\\nBirth and character of Daniel Boone. His limited education.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094A pioneer s camp. A log house and furnishings. Annoyance\\nof Boone on the arrival of Scotch emigrants. His longings for\\nadventure Camp meetings. Frontier life. Sports. Squirrel\\nhunting. Snuffing the candle.\\nIt was but a narrow fringe upon the sea coast of\\nNorth America, which was thus far occupied by the\\nEuropean emigrants. Even this edge of the continent\\nwas so vast in its extent, from the southern capes of\\nFlorida to the gulf of St. Lawrence, that these colonial\\nsettlements were far separated from each other. They\\nconstituted but little dots in the interminable forest\\nthe surges of the Atlantic beating upon their eastern\\nshores, and the majestic wilderness sweeping in its\\nsublime solitude behind them on the west. Here the\\npainted Indians pursued their game, while watching\\nanxiously the encroachments of the pale faces. The\\ncry of the panther, the growling of the bear, and the\\nhowling of the wolf, were music to the settlers\\ncompared with the war-hoop of the savage, which\\noften startled the inmates of the lonely cabins, and", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "DANIEL BOONE, HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 37\\nconsigned them to that sleep from which there is no\\nearthly waking. The Indians were generally hostile,\\nand being untutored savages, they were as merciless\\nas demons in their revenge. The mind recoils from\\nthe contemplation of the tortures to which they often\\nexposed their captives. And one cannot but wondei\\nthat the Almighty Father could have allowed such\\nagony to be inflicted upon any of His creatures.\\nNotwithstanding the general desire of the colonial\\nauthorities to treat the Indians with justice and\\nkindness, there were unprincipled adventurers crowd-\\ning all the colonies, whose wickedness no laws could\\nrestrain. They robbed the Indians, insulted their\\nfamilies, and inflicted upon them outrages which\\ngoaded the poor savages to desperation. In their\\nunintelligent vengeance they could make no distinc-\\ntion between the innocent and the guilty.\\nOn the loth of October, 17 17, a vessel containing\\na number of emigrants arrived at Philadelphia, a\\nsmall but flourishing settlement upon the banks of\\nthe Delaware. Among the passengers there was a\\nman named George Boone, with his wife and eleven\\nchildren, nine sons and two daughters. He had come\\nfrom Exeter, England, and was lured to the New\\nWorld by the cheapness of land. He had sufficient\\nproperty to enable him to furnish all his sons with\\nample farms in America. The Delaware, above\\n4", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "^S DANIEL BOONE.\\nPhiladelphia, was at that time a silent stream, flowing\\nsublimely through the almost unbroken forest. Here\\nand there, a bold settler had felled the trees, and in\\nthe clearing had reared his log hut, upon the river\\nbanks Occasionally the birch canoe of an Indian\\nhunter was seen passing rapidly from cove to cove,\\nand occasionally a little cluster of Indian wigwams\\ngraced some picturesque and sunny exposure, for the\\nIndians manifested much taste in the location of their\\nvillages.\\nGeorge Boone ascended this solitary river about\\ntwenty miles above Philadelphia, where he purchased\\nupon its banks an extensive territory, consisting of\\nseveral hundred acres. It was near the present city\\nof Bristol, in what is now called Buck s County. To\\nthis tract, sufficiently large for a township, he gave\\nthe name of Exeter, in memory of the home he had\\nleft in England. Here, aided by the strong arms of\\nhis boys, he reared a commodious log cabin. It must\\nhave been an attractive and a happy home. The\\nclimate was delightful, the soil fertile, supplying him,\\nwith but little culture, with an ample supply of corn,\\nand the most nutritious vegetables. Before his door\\nrolled the broad expanse of the Delaware, abounding\\nwith fish of delicious flavor. His boys with hook and\\nline could at any time, in a few moments, supply the\\ntable with a nice repast. With the unerring rifleii", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 39\\nthey could always procure game in great variety and\\nabundance.\\nThe Indians, won by the humanity of William Penn\u00c2\u00ab\\nwere friendly, and their occasional visits to the cabin\\ncontributed to the enjoyment of its inmates. On the\\nwhole a more favored lot in life could not well be\\nimagined. There was unquestionably far more happi-\\nness in this log cabin of the settler, on the silent\\nwaters of the Delaware, than could be found in any of\\nthe castles or palaces of England, France, or Spain.\\nGeorge Boone had one son on whom he conferred\\nthe singular name of Squire. His son married a young\\nwoman in the neighborhood by the name of Sarah\\nMorgan, and surrounded by his brothers and sisters,\\nhe raised his humble home in the beautiful township\\nwhich his father had purchased. Before leaving En-\\ngland the family, religiously inclined, had accepted\\nthe Episcopal form of Christian worship. But in the\\nNew World, far removed from the institutions of the\\nGospel, and allured by the noble character and influ-\\nence of William Penn, they enrolled themselves in the\\nSociety of Friends. In the record of the monthly\\nmeetings of this society, we find it stated that George\\nBoone was received to its communion on the thirty-\\nfirst day of tenth month, in the year 17 17. It is also\\nrecorded that his son Squire Boone was married to\\nSarah Morgan, on the twenty-third day of seventh", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 DANIEL BOONE.\\nmonth, 1720. The records of the meetings also shew\\nthe number of their children, and the periods of their\\nbirth.\\nBy this it appears that their son Daniel, the subject\\nef this memoir, was born on the twenty-second day of\\neighth month, 1734. It seems that Squire Boone be-\\ncame involved in difficulties with the Society of Friends,\\nfor allowing one of his sons to marry out of meeting.\\nHe was therefore disowned, and perhaps on this\\naccount, he subsequently removed his residence tc\\nNorthCarolina, as we shall hereafter show. His son\\nDaniel, from earliest childhood, developed a peculiar\\nand remarkably interesting character. He was silent,\\nthoughtful, of pensive temperament, yet far from\\ngloomy, never elated, never depressed. He exhibited\\nfrom his earliest years such an insensibility to danger,\\nas to attract the attention of all who knew him.\\nThough affectionate and genial in disposition, never\\nmorose or moody, he still loved solitude, and seemed\\nnever so happy as when entirely alone. His father\\nremained in his home upon the Delaware until Daniel\\nwas about ten years of age.\\nVarious stories are related of his adventures in\\nthese his early years, which may or may not be en-\\ntirely authentic. It makes but little difference. These\\nanecdotes if only founded on facts, show at least the\\nestimation in which he was regarded, and the impres-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 4\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ion which his character produced in these days of\\nchildhood. Before he was ten years old he would\\ntake his rifle and plunge boldly into the depths of\\nthe illimitable forest. He seemed, by instinct, pos-\\nsessed of the skill of the most experienced hunter, so\\nthat he never became bewildered, or in danger of\\nbeing lost. There were panthers, bears and wolves\\nin those forests, but of them he seemed not to have\\nthe slightest fear. His skill as a marksman became\\nquite unerring. Not only racoons, squirrels, partridges\\nand other such small game were the result of his\\nhunting expeditiofVs, but occasionally even the fierce\\npanther fell before his rifle ball. From such frequent\\nexpeditions he would return silent and tranquil, with\\nnever a word of boasting in view of exploits of which\\na veteran hunter might be proud.\\nIndeed his love of solitude was so great, that he\\nreared for himself a little cabin in the wilderness,\\nthree miles back from the settlement. Here he would\\ngo all alone without even a dog for companion, his\\ntrusty rifle his only protection. At his camp fire, on\\nthe point of his ramrod, he would cook the game\\nwhich he obtained in abundance, and upon his bed\\nof leaves would sleep in sweetest enjoyment, lulled\\nby the wind through the tree-tops, and by the cry\\nof the night bird and of the wild beasts roaming\\naround.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42 DANIEL BOONE.\\nThe education of young Boone was necessarily very\\ndefective. There were no schools then established in\\nthose remote districts of kg cabins. But it so happened\\nthat an Irishman of some little education strolled\\ninto that neighborhood, and Squire Boone engaged\\nhim to teach, for a few months, his children and\\nthose of some others of the adjacent settlers. These\\nhardy emigrants met with their axes in a central\\npoint in the wilderness, and in a few hours constructed\\na rude hut of logs for a school-house. Here young\\nBoone was taught to read, and perhaps to write.\\nThis was about all the education he ever received.\\nProbably the confinement of the school-room was\\nto him unendurable. The forest was his congenial\\nhome, hunting the business of his life.\\nThough thus uninstructed in the learning of books,\\nthere were other parts of practical education, of\\ninfinitely more importance to him, in which he became\\nan adept. His native strength of mind, keen habits\\nof observation, and imperturbable tranquility under\\nwhatever perils or reverses, gave him skill in the life\\nupon which he was to enter, which the teachings of\\nbooks alone could not confer. No marksman could\\nsurpass him in the dexterity with which with his bullet\\nhe would strike the head of a nail, at the distance of\\nmany yards. No Indian hunter or warrior could\\nwith more sagacity trace his steps through the path-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 43\\nless forest, detect the footsteps of a retreating foe, of\\nsearch out the hiding place of the panther or the bear.\\nIn these hunting excursions the youthful frame of\\nDaniel became inured to privation, hardship, endu-\\nrance. Taught to rely upon his own resources, he knew\\nnot what it was to be lonely, for an hour. In the darkest\\nnight and in the remotest wilderness, when the storm\\nraged most fiercely, although but a child he felt\\npeaceful, happy, and entirely at home.\\nAbout the year 1748 (the date is somewhat uncer-\\ntain), Squire Boone, with his family, emigrated seven\\nhundred miles farther south and west to a place called\\nHolman s Ford on the Yadkin river, in North Carolina.\\nThe Yadkin is a small stream in the north-west part\\nof the State. A hundred years ago this was indeed a\\nhowling wilderness. It is difficult to imagine what\\ncould have induced the father of a family to abandon\\nthe comparatively safe and prosperous settlements on\\nthe banks of the Delaware, to plunge into the wilder-\\nness of these pathless solitudes, several hundred miles\\nfrom the Atlantic coast. Daniel was then about\\nsixteen years of age.\\nOf the incidents of their long journey through the\\nwood on foot, with possibly a few pack horses, for\\nthere were no wagon-roads whatever we have no\\nrecord. The journey must probably have occupied\\nseveral weeks, occasionally cheered by sunshine, and", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44 DANIEL BOONE.\\nagain drenched by storms. There were nine children\\nin the family. At the close of the weary pilgrimage\\nof a day, through such narrow trails as that which the\\nIndian or the buffalo had made through the forest, or\\nover the prairies, they were compelled to build a cabin\\nat night, with logs and the bark of trees to shelter\\nthem from the wind and rain, and at the camp-fire to\\ncook the game which they had shot during the day.\\nWe can imagine that this journey must have been a\\nseason of unspeakable delight to Daniel Boone.\\nAlike at home with the rifle and the hatchet, never\\nfor a moment bewildered, or losing his self-possession,\\nhe could, even unaided, at any hour, rear a sheltering\\nhut for his mother and his sisters, before which the\\ncamp-fire would blaze cheerily, and their hunger\\nwould be appeased by the choicest viands from the\\ngame which his rifle had procured.\\nThe spirit of adventure is so strong in most human\\nhearts which luxurious indulgence has not enervated,\\nthat it is not improbable that this family enjoyed far\\nmore in this romantic excursion through an unex-\\nplored wilderness, than those now enjoy who in a few\\nhours traverse the same distance in the smooth rolling\\nrail-cars. Indeed fancy can paint many scenes of\\npicturesque beauty which we know that the reality\\nmust have surpassed.\\nIt is the close of a lovely day. A gentle breeze", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 45\\nsweeps through the tree tops from the north-west\\nThe trail through the day has led along the banks of\\na crystal mountain stream, sparkling with trout. The\\npath is smooth for the moccasined feet. The limbs,\\ninured to action, experienced no weariness. The axes\\nof the father and the sons speedily construct a camp,\\nopen to the south and perfectly sheltered on the roof\\nand on the sides by the bark of trees. The busy\\nfingers of the daughters have in the meantime spread\\nover the floor a soft and fragrant carpet of evergreen\\ntwigs. The mother is preparing supper, of trout\\nfrom the stream, and the fattest of wild turkeys or\\npartridges, or tender cuts of venison, which the rifles\\nof her husband or sons have procured. Voracious\\nappetites render the repast far more palatable than\\nthe choicest viands which were ever spread in the\\nbanqueting halls of Versailles or Windsor. Water-\\nfowl of gorgeous plumage sport in the stream,\\nunintimidated by the approach of man. The plaintive\\nsongs of forest-birds float in the evening air. On the\\nopposite side of the stream, herds of deer and buffalo\\ncrop the rich herbage of the prairie, which extends\\nfar away, till it is lost in the horizon of the south.\\nDaniel retires from the converse of the cabin to an\\nadjoining eminence, where silently and rapturously\\nhe gazes upon the scene of loveliness spread out\\nbefore him.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 DANIEL BOONE.\\nSuch incidents must often have occurred. Even\\nin the dark and tempestuous night, with the storm\\nsurging through the tree tops, and the rain descending\\nin floods, in their sheltered camp, illumined by the\\nflames of their night fire, souls capable of appreciating\\nthe sublimity of such scenes must have experienced\\nexquisite delight. It is pleasant to reflect, that the\\npoor man in his humble cabin may often be the\\nrecipient of much more happiness than the lord finds\\nin his castle, or the king in his palace.\\nNo details are given respecting the arrival of this\\nfamily on the banks of the Yadkin, or of their habits\\nof life while there. We simply know that they were\\nfar away in the untrodden wilderness, in the remotest\\nfrontiers of civilization. Bands of Indians were roving\\naround them, but even if hostile, so long as they had\\nonly bows and arrows, the settler in his log-hut, which\\nwas a fortress, and with his death-dealing rifle, was\\ncomparatively safe.\\nHere the family dwelt for several years, probably\\nin the enjoyment of abundance, and with ever-\\nincreasing comforts. The virgin soil, even poorly\\ntilled, furnished them with the corn and the vegetables\\ntliey required, while the forests supplied the table\\nwith game. Thus the family, occupying the double\\nposition of the farmer and the hunter, lived in the\\nenjoyment of all th^ luxuries which both of those", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 47\\ncallings could afford. Here Daniel Boons grew up to\\nmanhood. His love of solitude and of nature led\\nhim on long hunting excursions, from which he often\\nreturned laden with furs. The silence of the wilder-\\nness he brought back with him to his home. And\\nthough his placid features ever bore a smile, he had\\nbut few words to interchange with neighbors or friends.\\nHe was a man of affectionate, but not of passionate\\nnature. It woulJ seem that other emigrants wxre\\nlured to the banks of the Yadkin, for here, after a few\\nyears, young Boone fell in love v/ith the daughter of\\nhis father s neighbor, and that daughter, Rebecca\\nBryan, became his bride. He thus left his father s\\nhome, and, with his axe, speedily erected for himself\\nand wife a cabin, we may presume at some distance\\nfrom sight or sound of any other house. There from\\nnoise and tumult far, Daniel Boone established\\nhimself in the life of solitude, to which he was\\naccustomed and which he enjoyed. It appears that\\nhis marriage took place about the year 1755. The\\ntide of emigration was still flowing in an uninterrupted\\nstream towards the west. The population w^as in-\\ncreasing throughout this remote region, and the axe oi\\nthe settler began to be heard on the streams tributary\\nto the Yadkin.\\nDaniel Boone became restless. He loved the\\nwilderness and its solitude, and was annoyed by the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 DANIEL BOONE.\\napproach of human habitations, bringing to him\\ncustoms with which he was unacquainted, and expos-\\ning him to embarrassments from which he would\\ngladly escape. The mode of life practiced by those\\neariy settlers in the wilderness is well known. The\\nlog-house usually consisted of but one room, with a\\nfire-place of stones at the end. These houses were\\noften very warm and comfortable, presenting in the\\ninterior, with a bright fire blazing on the hearth, a\\nvery cheerful aspect. Their construction was usually\\nas follows Straight, smooth logs about a foot in\\ndiameter, cut of the proper length, and so notched\\nat the ends as to be held very firmly together, were\\nthus placed one above the other to the height of about\\nten feet. The interstices were filled with clay, which\\nsoon hardened, rendering the walls comparatively\\nsmooth, and alike impervious to wind or rain. Other\\nlogs of straight fiber were split into clap-boards, one\\nor two inches in thickness, with which they covered\\nthe roof If suitable wood for this purpose could not\\nbe found, the bark of trees was used, with an occasional\\nthatching of the long grass of the prairies. Logs\\nabout eighteen inches in diameter were selected for\\nthe floor. These were easily split in halves, and with\\nthe smooth surface uppermost joined closely together\\nby a slight trimming with axe or adze, piesented a\\nvery firm and even attractive surface for the teet.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 49\\nIn the centre of the room, four augur holes were\\nbored in the logs, about three inches in diameter.\\nStakes were driven firmly into these holes, upon\\nwhich were placed two pieces of timber, with the upper\\nsurfaces hewn smooth, thus constructing a table. In\\none corner of the cabin, four stakes were driven in\\nsimilar way, about eighteen inches high, with forked\\ntops. Upon these two saplings were laid with smooth\\npieces of bark stretched across. These were covered\\nwith grass or dried leaves, upon which was placed,\\nwith the fur upwards, the well-tanned skin of the\\nbuffalo or the bear. Thus quite a luxurious bed was\\nconstructed, upon which there was often enjoyed as\\nsweet sleep as perhaps is ever found on beds of down.\\nIn another corner, some rude shelves were placed,\\nupon which appeared a few articles of tin and iron-\\nware. Upon som.e buck horns over the door was\\nalways placed the rifle, ever loaded and ready for use.\\nA very intelligent emigrant, Dr. Doddridge, gives\\nthe following graphic account of his experience in such\\na log-cabin as we have described, in the remote\\nwilderness. When he was but a child, his father, with\\na small family, had penetrated these trackless wilds,\\nand in the midst of their sublime solitudes had reared\\nbis lonely cabin. He writes\\nMy father s family was small and he took us all\\nwith him. The Indian meal which he brought was\\nA", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 DANIEL BOONE.\\nexpended six weeks too soon, so that for that length\\nof time we had to live without bread. The lean\\nvenison and the breast of wild turkeys, we were taught\\nto call bread. I remember how narrowly we children\\nwatched the growth of the potato tops, pumpkin, and\\nsquash vines, hoping from day to day to get something\\nto answer in the place of bread. How delicious was the\\ntaste of the young potatoes, when we got them I\\nWhat a jubilee when we were permitted to pull the\\nyoung corn for roasting ears Still more so when\\nit had acquired sufficient hardness to be made into\\njohnny cake by the aid of a tin grater. The furniture\\nof the table consisted of a few pewter dishes, plates\\nand spoons, but mostly of wooden bowls and trenches\\nand noggins. If these last were scarce, gourds and\\nhard shell squashes made up the deficiency.\\nI well remember the first time I ever saw a tea\\ncup and saucer. My mother died when I was six oi\\nseven years of age. My father then sent me to\\nMaryland to go to school. At Bedford, the tavern\\nat which my uncle put up was a stone house, and to\\nmake the changes still more complete, it was plastered\\non the inside both as to the walls and ceiling. On\\ngoing into the dining-room, I was struxk with\\na^onishment at the appearance of the house. I had\\nno idea that there was any house in the world that\\nwas not built of logs. But here I looked around and", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 5I\\ncould see no logs, and above I couid see no joists.\\nWhether such a thing had been made by the hands of\\nman, or had grown so of itself, I could not conjecture.\\nI had not the courage to inquire anything about it.\\nWhen supper came on, my confusion was worse\\nconfounded A little cup stood in a bigger one with\\nsome brownish-looking stuff in it, which was neither\\nmilk, hominy, nor broth. What to do with these\\nlittle cups, and the spoons belonging to them, I could\\nnot tell. But I was afraid to ask anything concerning\\nthe use of them.\\nDaniel Boone could see from the door of his cabin,\\nfar away in the west, the majestic ridge of the\\nAlleghany mountains, many of the peaks rising six\\nthousand feet into the clouds. This almost impassable\\nwall, which nature had reared, extended for hundreds\\nof leagues, along the Atlantic coast, parallel with that\\ncoast, and at an average distance of one hundred and\\nthirty miles from the ocean. It divides the waters\\nwhich flow into the Atlantic, from those which run\\ninto the Mississippi, The great chain consists of many\\nspurs, from fifty to two hundred miles in breadth, and\\nreceives in different localities, different names, such as\\nthe Cumberland mountains, the Blue Ridge, etc.\\nBut few white men had ever as yet ascended these\\nsummits, to cast a glance at the vast wilderness\\nbeyond. The wildest stories were told around the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "52 DANIEL BOONE.\\ncabin fires, of these unexplored realms, of the IndiaH\\ntribes wandering there of the forests filled with\\ngame of the rivers alive with fishes of the fertile\\nplains, the floral beauty, the abounding fruit, and\\nthe almost celestial clime. These stories were brought\\nto the settlers in the broken language of the Indians,\\nand in the exaggerated tales of hunters, who professed\\nthat in the chase they had, from some Pisgah s sumTiit^\\ngazed upon the splendors of this Canaan of the New\\nW^rid\\nThus far, the settlers had rested contented with\\nthe sea-bord region east of the Alleghanies. They\\nhad made no attempt to climb the summits of this\\ngreat barrier, or to penetrate its gloomy defiles. A\\ndense forest covered alike the mountain clifi and the\\nrocky gorge. Indeed there were but few points at\\nwhich even the foot of the hunter could pass this\\nchain.\\nWhile Daniel Boone was residing in the congenial\\nsolitude of his hut, on the banks of the Yadkin with\\nthe grandeur of the wilderness around him in which\\nhis soul delighted with his table luxuriously spread\\naccording to his tastes with venison, bear s meat, fat\\nturkeys, chickens from the prairie, and vegetables\\nfrom his garden with comfortable clothing of deer-\\nskin, and such cloths as pedlars occasionally brought\\nto his cabin door in exchange for furs, he was quite", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 53\\nannoyed by the arrival of a number of Scotch\\nfamilies in his region, bringing with them custom.^\\nand fashions which to Daniel Boone were very\\nannoying. They began to cut down the glorious old\\nforest, to break up the green sward of the prairies, to\\nrear niore ambitious houses than the humble home of\\nthe pioneer they assumed airs of superiority, intro-\\nduced more artificial styles of living, and brought in\\nthe hitherto unknown vexation of taxes.\\nOne can easily imagine how restive such a man as\\nBoone must have been under such innovations. The\\nsheriff made his appearance in the lonely hut the\\ncollection of the taxes was enforced by suits at law.\\nEven Daniel Boone s title to his lands was called in\\nquestion some of the new comers claiming that their\\nmore legal grants lapped over upon the boundaries\\nwhich Boone claimed. Under these circumstances\\nour pioneer became very anxious to escape from these\\nvexations by an emigration farther into the wilder*\\nness. Day after day he cast wistful glances upon tht\\nvast mountain barrier piercing the clouds in the dis\u00c2\u00ab\\ntant horizon. Beyond that barrier, neither the sherifl\\nnor the tax-gatherer were to be encountered. His\\nsoul, naturally incapable of fear, experienced no dread\\nin apprehension of Indian hostilities, or the ferocity\\nof wild beasts. Even the idea of the journey through\\nthese sublime solitudes of an unexplored region, was", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54 DANIEL BOONE.\\nfar more attractive to him than the tour of Europe to\\na sated millionaire.\\nTwo or three horses would convey upon their backs\\nall their household goods. There were Indian trails\\nand streets, so called, made by the buffaloes, as in\\nlarge numbers they had followed each other, selecting\\nby a wonderful instinct their path from one feeding\\nground to another, through cane-brakes, around\\nmorasses, and over mountains through the most ac-\\ncessible defiles. Along these trails or streets, Boone\\ncould take his peaceful route without any danger of\\nmistaking his way. Every mile would be opening to\\nhim new scenes of grandeur and beauty. Should\\nnight come, or a storm set in, a few hours labor with\\nhis axe would rear for him not only a comfortable,\\nbut a cheerful tent with its warm and sheltered in-\\nterior, with the camp-fire crackling and blazing before\\nit. His wife and his children not only afforded him\\nall the society his peculiar nature craved, but each\\none was a helper, knowing exactly what to do in this\\npicnic excursion through the wilderness. Wherever\\nhe might stop for the night or for a few days, his un-\\nerring rifle procured for him viands which might\\ntempt the appetite of the epicure. There are many\\neven in civilized life who will confess, that for them,\\nsuch an excursion would present attractions such as\\nare not to be found in the banqueting halls at", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 55\\nWindsor Castle, or in the gorgeous saloons of Ver-\\nsailles.\\nDaniel Boone, in imagination, was incessantly visit-\\ning the land beyond the mountains, and longing to\\nexplore its mysteries. Whether he would find the\\nocean there or an expanse of lakes and majestic rivers,\\nor boundless prairies, or the unbroken forest, he knew\\nnot. Whether the region were crowded with Indians,\\nand if so, whether they would be found friendly or\\nhostile, and whether game roamed there in greater\\nvariety and in larger abundance than on the Atlantic\\nside of the great barrier, were questions as yet all un-\\nsolved. But these questions Daniel Boone pondered\\nin silence, night and day.\\nA gentleman who nearly half a century ago visited\\none of these frontier dwellings, very romantically\\nsituated amidst the mountains of Western Virginia,\\nhas given us a pencil sketch of the habitation which\\nwe here introduce. The account of the visit is also\\nso graphic that we cannot improve it by giving it in\\nany language but his own. This settler had passed\\nthrough the first and was entering upon the second\\nstage of pioneer life\\nTowards the close of an autumnal day, when t:av-\\neling through the thinly settled region of Western\\nVirginia, I came up with a substantial-looking farmer\\nleaning on the fence by the road side. I accom-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56 DANIEL BOONE.\\npanied him to his house to spend the night. It was\\na log dwelling, and near it stood another log struc-\\nture, about twelve feet square, the weaving shop of\\nthe family. On entering the dwelling I found the\\nnumerous household all clothed in substantial gar-\\nments of their own m.anufacture. The floor was\\nunadorned by a carpet and the room devoid of super-\\nfluous furniture yet they had all that necessity\\nrequired for their comfort. One needs but little ex-\\nperience like this to learn how few are our real wants,\\nhow easily most luxuries of dress, furniture and\\nequipage can be dispensed with.\\nSoon after my arrival supper was ready. It\\nconsisted of fowls, bacon, hoe-cake and buckwheat\\ncakes. Our beverage was milk and coffee, sweetened\\nwith maple sugar. Soon as it grew dark my hostess\\ntook down a small candle mould for three candles,\\nhanging from the wall on a frame-work just in front\\nof the fire-place, in company with a rifle, long strings\\nof dried pumpkins and other articles of household\\nproperty. On retiring I was conducted to the room\\noverhead, to which I ascended by stairs out of doors.\\nMy bed-fellow was the county sheriff, a young man of\\nabout my own age. And as we lay together a fine\\nfield was had for astronomical observations through\\nthe chmks of the logs.\\nThe next morning, after rising, I was looking foi", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 57\\nthe washing apparatus, when he tapped me on the\\nshoulder, as a signal to accompany him to the brook\\nin the rear of the house, in whose pure crystal waters\\nwe performed our morning ablutions. After break-\\nfast, through the persuasion of the sheriff, I agreed to\\ngo across the country by his house. He was on\\nhorseback I on foot bearing my knapsack. For six\\nmiles our route lay through a pathless forest on\\nemerging from which we soon passed through the\\nCourt House,* the only village in the county, con-\\nsisting of about a dozen log-houses and the court\\nbuilding.\\nSoon after we came to a Methodist encampment.\\nThis was formed of three continuous lines, each oc-\\ncupying a side of a square and about one hundred\\nfeet in length. Each row was divided into six or ten\\ncabins with partitions between. The height of the\\nrows on the inner side of the enclosed area was about\\nten feet, on the outer about six, to which the roofs\\nsloped shed-like. The door of each cabin opened on\\nthe inner side of the area, and at the back of each\\nwas a log chimney coming up even with the roof.\\nAt the upper extremity of the inclosure, formed by\\nthese three lines of cabins, was an open shed a mere\\nroof supported by posts, say thirty by fifty feet, in\\nwhich was a coarse pulpit and log seats. A few tall\\ntrees we^e standing within the area, and many stumps", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "58 DANIEL BOONE\\nscattered here and there. The whole establiihrnent\\nwas in the depth of a forest, and wild and rude as can\\nwell be imagined.\\nIn many of these sparsely inhabited counties\\nthere are no settled clergy, and rarely do the people\\nhear any other than the Methodist preachers. Here\\nis the itinerating system of Wesley exhibited in its\\nfull usefulness. The circuits are usually of three\\nweeks duration, in which the clergymen preach daily.\\nMost of these preachers are energetic, devoted men,\\nand often they endure great privations.\\nAfter sketching the encampment I came in a few\\nmoments to the dwelling of the sheriff. Close by it\\nwas a group of mountain men and women seated\\naround a log cabin, about twelve feet square, ten high,\\nand open at the top, into which these neighbors of\\nmy companion were castmg ears of corn as fast as\\nthey could shuck them. Cheerfully they performed\\ntheir task. The men were large and hardy the\\ndamsels plump and rosy, and all dressed in good\\nwarm homespun. The sheriff informed me that he\\nowned about two thousand acres around his dwelling,\\nand that his farm was worth about one thousand\\ndollars or fifty cents an acre.\\nI entered his log domicile which was one story in\\nheight, about twenty feet square and divided into two\\nsmall rooms without windows or places to let in thf", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "HT //ARLY ADVENTURES. 59\\nlight except by a front and rear door. I soon par-\\ntook of a meal ia which we had a variety of luxuries\\nnot omitting bear s meat. A blessing was asked at\\nthe table by one of the neighbors. After supper the\\nbottle, as usual at corn huskings, was circulated.\\nThe sheriff learning that I was a Washingtonian,\\nwith the politeness of one of nature s gentlemen\\nrefrained from urging me to participate. The men\\ndrank but moderately; and we all drew around the\\nfire, the light of which was the only one we had.\\nHunting stories and kindred topxs served to talk\\ndown the houis till bed time.\\nOn awaking in the morning, I saw two women\\ncooking breakfast in my bedroom, and three men\\nseated over the fire watching the operation. After\\nbreakfast, I bade my host farewell, buckled on my\\nknapsack and left. In the course of two hours, I\\ncame to a cabin by the wayside. There bemg no\\ngate, I sprang over the fence, entered the open door,\\nand was received with a hearty welcome. It was an-\\nhumble dwelling, the abode of poverty. The few\\narticles of furniture were neat and pleasantly arranged^\\nIn the corner stood two beds, one hung with curtains^\\nand both with coverlets of snowy white, contrasting\\nwith the dingy log walls, rude furniture, and rough\\nboarded floor of this, the only room in the dwelling.\\nAround a cheerful fire was seated an interesting", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "(k) DANIEL BOONE.\\nfamily group. In one corner, on the hearth, sat the\\nmother, smoking a pipe. Next to her was a little girl,\\nin a small chair, holding a young kitten. In the\\nopposite corner sat a venerable old man, of Herculean\\nstature, robed in a hunting shirt, and with a coun-\\ntenance as majestic and impressive as that of a Roman\\nsenator. In the centre of the group was a young\\nmaiden, modest and retiring, not beautiful, except in\\nthat moral beauty virtue gives. She was reading to\\nthem from a little book. She was the only one of the\\nfamily who could read, and she could do so but\\nimperfectly. In that small volume was the whole\\nsecret of the neatness and happiness found in this\\nlonely cot. That little book was the New Testament.\\nThe institution of camp-meetings, introduced with\\nso much success by the Methodists, those noble\\npioneers of Christianity, seem to have been the\\nnecessary result of the attempt to preach to the\\nsparsely settled population of a new country. The\\nfollowing is said to be the origin of those camp-\\nmeetings which have done incalculable good, socially,\\nintellectually, and religiously.\\nIn the year 1799, two men by the name of McGee,\\none a Presbyterian, the other a Methodist, set out on\\na missionary tour together, to visit the log-houses in\\nthe wilderness. A meeting was appointed at a little\\nsettlement upon one of the tributaries of the Ohia", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 6l\\nThe pioneers flocked to the place from man) miles\\naround. There was no church there, and the meeting\\nwas necessarily held in the open air. Many brought\\ntheir food with them and camped out. Thus the\\nmeeting, with exhortation and prayer, was continued in\\nthe night. Immense bonfires blazed, illummating the\\nsublimities of the forest, and the assembled con-\\ngregation, cut off from all the ordinary privileges of\\ncivilized life, listened devoutly to the story of a Savior s\\nlove.\\nThis meeting was so successful in its results that\\nanother was appointed at a small settlement on the\\nbanks of a stream called Muddy river. The tidings\\nspread rapidly through all the stations and farm housey\\non the frontier. It afforded these lonely settlers\\ndelightful opportunity of meeting together. They\\ncould listen for hours with unabated interest to the\\nreligious exercises. The people assembled from a\\ndistance of forty or fifty miles around. A vast con-\\ncourse had met beneath the foliage of the trees, the\\nskies alone, draped with clouds by day and adorned\\nwith stars by night, the dome of their majestic temple.\\nThe scene, by night, must have been picturesque in\\nthe extreme. Men, women and children were there in\\nhomespun garb and being accustomed to camp life,\\nthey were there in comfort. Strangers met and\\nbecame friends. Many wives and mothers obtained", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "62 DANIEL BOONE.\\nrest and refreshment from their monotonous toils.\\nThere is a bond in Christ s discipleship, stronger than\\nany other, and Christians grasped hands in love,\\npledging themselves anew to a holy life. For several\\ndays and nights, this religious festival was continued.\\nTime could not have been better spent. Dwellers in\\nthe forest could not afford to take so long a journey\\nmerely to listen to one half-hour s discourse. These\\nmen and women were earnest and thoughtful. In\\nthe solitude of their homes, they had reflected deeply\\nupon life and its issues. When death occasionally\\nvisited their cabins, it was a far more awful event than\\nwhen death occurs in the crowded city, where the\\nhearse is every hour of every day passing through the\\nstreets.\\nThese scenes of worship very deeply impressed the\\nminds of the people. They were not Gospel hardened.\\nThe gloom and silence of the forest, alike still by\\nnight and by day the memory of the past, with its few\\njoys and many griefs the anticipations of the future,\\nwith its unceasing struggles, to terminate only in\\ndeath the solemnity which rested on every coun-\\ntenance the sweet melody of the hymns the earnest\\ntones of the preachers in exhortation and prayer, all\\ncombined to present a scene calculated to produce\\na very profound impression upon the human mind.\\nAt this meeting, not only professed Christians were", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 63\\ngreatly revived, but not less than a hundred persons,\\nit was thought, became disciples of the Savior.\\nAnother camp-meeting was soon after appointed to\\nmeet on Desha s Creek, a small stream flowing into\\nthe Cumberland river. The country was now be-\\ncoming more populous, and several thousand were\\nassembled. And thus the work went on, multitudes\\nbeing thus reached by the preached Gospel who could\\niiot be reached in any other way.*\\nLife on the frontier was by no means devoid of its\\nenjoyments as well as of its intense excitements. It\\nmust have been also an exceedingly busy life. There\\nwere no mills for cutting timber or grinding corn no\\nblacksmith shops to repair the farming utensils.\\nThere were no tanneries, no carpenters, shoemakers,\\nweavers. Every family had to do everything for\\nitself. The corn was pounded with a heavy pestle in\\na large mortar made by burning an excavation in a\\nsolid block of wood. By means of these mortars the\\nsettlers, in regions where saltpetre could be obtained,\\nmade very respectable gunpowder. In making corn-\\nmeal a grater was sometimes used, consisting of a\\nhalf-circular piece of tin, perforated with a punch\\nfrom the concave side. The ears of corn were rubbed\\non the rough edges, and the meal fell through the\\nBang s History of Mettodism", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "64 DANIEL BOONE.\\nholes on a board or cloth placed to receive it. They\\nalso sometimes made use of a handmill, resembling\\nthose alluded to in the Bible. These consisted of\\ntwo circular stones the lowest, which was immov-\\nable, was called the bed-stone, the upper one, the\\nrunnel. Two persons could grind together at this\\nmill.\\nThe clothing was all of domestic manufacture. A\\nfabric called linsey-woolsey was most frequently in\\nuse and made the most substantial and warmest\\nclothing. It was made of flax and wool, the former\\nthe warp, the latter the filling. Every cabin almost\\nhad its rude loom, and every woman was a weaver.\\nThe men tanned their own leather. A large trough\\nwas sunk in the ground to its upper edge. Bark wa\\nshaved with an axe and pounded with a mallet,\\nAshes were used for lime in removing the hair. In\\nthe winter evenings the men made strong shoes and\\nmoccasins, and the women cut out and made hunting\\nshirts, leggins and drawers.\\nHunting was a great source of amusement as well\\nas a very exciting and profitable employment. The\\nboys were all taught to imitate the call of every bird\\nand beast in the woods. The skill in imitation\\nwhich they thus acquired was wonderful. Hidden in\\na thicket they would gobble like a turkey and lure a\\nwhole flock of these birds within reach of their rifles,", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 6$\\nBleating like the fawn they would draw the timid\\ndam to her death. The moping owls would come in\\nflocks attracted by the screech of the hunter, while\\npacks of wolves, far away in the forest, would howl in\\nresponse to the hunter s cry. The boys also rivalled\\nthe Indians in the skill with which they would throw\\nthe tomahawk. With a handle of a given length,\\nand measuring the distance with the eye, they would\\nthrow the weapon with such accuracy that its keen\\nedge would be sure to strike the object at which it\\nwas aimed. Running, jumping, wrestling were pas-\\ntimes in which both boys and men engaged. Shoot-\\ning at a mark was one of the most favorite diversions.\\nWhen a boy had attained the age of about twelve\\nj^ears, a rifle was usually placed in his hands. In the\\nhouse or fort where he resided, a port-hole was as-\\nsigned him, where he was to do valiant service as\\na soldier, in case of an attack by the Indians. Every\\nday he was in the woods hunting squirrels, turkeys\\nand raccoons. Thus he soon acquired extraordinary\\nexpertness with his gun.\\nThe following interesting narrative is taken from\\nRamsay s Annals of Tennessee, which State was\\nsettled about the same time with Kentucky and with\\nemigrants from about the same region\\nThe settlement of Tennessee was unlike that of\\nthe present new country of the United States. Emi-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "66 DANIEL BOONE.\\ngrants from the Atlantic cities, and from most points\\nin the Western interior, now embark upon steamboats\\nor other craft, and carrying with them all the con-\\nveniences and comforts of civilized life indeed many\\nof its luxuries are, in a few days, without toii^\\ndanger or exposure, transported to their new abodes,\\nand in a few months are surrounded with the ap-\\npendages of home, of civilization and the blessings of\\nlaw and of society.\\nThe wilds of Minnesota and Nebraska, by the\\nagency of steam or the stalwart arms of Western\\nboatmen, are at once transformed into the settle-\\nments of a commercial and civilized people. Inde-\\npendence and Saint Paul, six months after they are\\nlaid off, have their stores and their workshops, their\\nartisans and their mechanics. The mantua-maker\\nand the tailor arrive in the same boat with the car-\\npenter and mason. The professional man and the\\nprinter quickly follow. In the succeeding year the\\npiano, the drawing-room, the restaurant, the billiard\\ntable, the church bell, the village and the city in\\nminiature are all found, while the neighboring inte-\\nrior is yet a wilderness and a desert.\\nThe town and comfort, taste and urbanity aie\\nfirst the clearing, the farm house, the wagon road\\nand the improved country, second. It was far dif-\\nferent on the frontier of Tennessee. At first a single", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES 67\\nIndian trail was the only entrance to the Eastern\\nborder of it, and for many years admitted only the\\nhunter and the pack-horse. It was not till the year\\n1776 that a wagon was seen in Tennessee. In conse-\\nquence of the want of roads as well as of the great\\ndistance from the sources of supply the first inhabi-\\ntants were without tools, and of course without\\nmechanics much more without the conveniences of\\nliving and the comforts of housekeeping.\\nLuxuries were absolutely unknown. Salt was\\nbrought on pack-horses from Augusta and Richmond\\nand readily commanded ten dollars a bushel. The\\nsalt gourd in every cabin was considered as a treasure\\nThe sugar maple furnished the only article of luxury\\non the frontier coftee and tea being unknown or\\nbeyond the reach of the settlers. Sugar was seldom\\nmade and was used only for the sick, or in the pre-\\nparation of a sweetened dram at a wedding, or on\\nthe arrival of a new comer.\\nThe appendages of the kitchen, the cupboard and\\nthe table, were scanty and simple. Iron was brought\\nat great expense from the forges east of the moun-\\ntains, on pack-horses, and was sold at an enormous\\nprice. Its use was, for this reason, confined to the\\nconstruction and repair of ploughs and other farming\\nutensils. Hinges, nails and fastenings of that material\\nwere seldom seen. The costume of the first settlera", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "68 DANIEL BOONE.\\ncorresponded well with the style of their buildinj^s\\nand the quality of their furniture the hunting shirt\\nof the militia man and the hunter was in general use.\\nThe rest of their apparel was in keeping with it,\\nplain, substantial and well adapted for comfort, use\\nand economy. The apparel of the pioneer s family\\nwas all home-made and in a whole neighborhood\\nthere would not be seen, at the first settlement of the\\ncountry, a single article of dress of foreign manuiac-\\nture. Half the year, in many families, shoes were\\nnot worn. Boots, a fur hat and a coat, with buttons\\non each side, attracted the gaze of the beholder and\\nsometimes received censure or rebuke. A stranger\\nfrom the old States chose to doff his ruffles, his broad-\\ncloth and his cue rather than endure the scoft and\\nridicule of the backwoodsman.\\nThe dwelling house on every frontier in Tennessee\\nwas the log-cabin. A carpenter and a mason were\\nnot needed to build them much less the painter, the\\nglazier and the upholsterer. Every settler had, besides\\nhis rifle, no other instrument but an axe or hatchet\\nand a butcher-knife. A saw, an auger, a file and a\\nbroad-axe would supply a whole settlement, and were\\nused as common property in the erection of the log-\\ncabin.\\nThe labor and employment oi a pioneer family\\nWere distributed in accordance with surrounding cir-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. 69\\ncumstances. To the men was assigned the duty of pro-\\ncuring subsistence and materials for clothing, erecting\\nthe cabin and the station, opening and cultivating the\\nfarm, hunting the wild beasts, and repelling and\\npursueing the Indians. The women spun the flax,\\nthe cotton and the wool, wove the cloth, made them\\nup, milked, churned and prepared the food, and did\\ntheir full share of the duties of housekeeping.\\nCould there be happiness or comfort in such\\ndwellings and such a state of society To those v/ho\\nare accustomed to modern refinements the truth\\nappears like fable. The early occupants of log-cabins\\nwere among the most happy of mankind. Exercise\\nand excitement gave them health. They were prac-\\ntically equal, common danger made them mutually\\ndependent. Brilliant hopes of future wealth and dis-\\ntinction led them on. And as there was ample room\\nfor all, and as each new comer increased individual\\nand general security, there was little room for that\\nenvy, jealousy and hatred which constitute a large\\nportion of human misery in older societies.\\nNever were the story, the joke, the song and the\\nlaugh better enjoyed than upon the hewed blocks of\\npuncheon stools, around the roaring log fire of the early\\nwestern settler.\\nOn the frontier the diet was necessarily plain and\\nhomely, but exceedingly abundant and nutritive", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "70 DANIEL BOONE.\\nThe Goshen of America furnishes the richest milk and\\nthe most savory and delicious meats. In their rude\\ncabins, with their scanty and inartificial furniture, no\\npeople ever enjoyed, in wholesome food a greater\\nvariety, or a superior quality of the necessaries of\\nlife.\\nA writer of that day describes the sports of these\\npioneers of Kentucky. One of them consisted in\\ndriv ng the nail. A common nail was hammereJ\\ninto a target for about two thirds of its length. The\\nmarksmen then took their stand at the distance of\\nabout forty paces. Each man carefully cleaned the\\ninterior of his gun, and then placed a bullet in his\\nhand, over which he poured just enough powder to\\ncover it. This was a charge. A shot which only\\ncame close to the nail was considered a very indifferent\\nshot. Nothing was deemed satisfactory but striking\\nthe nail with the bullet fairly on the head. Generally\\none out of three shots would hit the nail. Two nails\\nwere frequently needed before each man could get a\\nshot\\nBarking of Squin^els is another sport. I first\\nwitnessed, writes the one to whom we have above\\nalluded, this manner of procuring squirrels, while\\nnear the town of Frankfort. The performer was the\\ncelebrated Daniel Boone. We walked out togethef\\nand foliowfid the rocky margins of the Kentucky river.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. J I\\nanttl we reached a piece of flat land, thickly covered\\nwith black walnuts, oaks, and hickories. Squirrels\\nwere seen gambolling on every tree around us. My\\ncompanion Mr. Boone, a stout, hale, athletic man,\\ndressed in a home-spun hunting shirt, bare legged and\\nmoccasined, carried a long and hea\\\\y rifle, which, as\\nhe was loading it, he said had proved efficient in all\\nhis former undertakings, and which he hoped would\\nnot fail on this occasion, as he felt proud to show me\\nhis skill.\\nThe gun was wiped, the powder measured, the\\nball patched with six hundred thread linen, and a\\ncharge sent home with a hickory rod. We moved not\\na step from the place, for the squirrels were so thick,\\nthat it was unnecessary to go after them. Boom^\\npointed to one of these animals, which had observed\\nus and was crouched on a tree, about fifty paces\\ndistant, and bade me mark well where the ball should\\nhit. He raised his piece gradually, until the head, of\\nsight of the barrel, was brought to a line with the spot\\nhe intended to strike. The whip-like report resounded\\nthrough the woods, and along the hills, in repeated\\nechoes. Judge of my surprise, when I perceived that\\nthe ball had hit the piece of bark immediately under-\\nneath the squirrel, and shivered it into splinters the\\nconcussion produced by which had killed the animal,\\nand sent it whirling through the air, as if it had beeo", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "Jl DANIEL BOONE.\\nblown up by the explosion of a powder magazine.\\nBoone kept up his firing, and before many hours had\\nelapsed, we had procured as many squirrels as we\\nwished. Since that first interview with the veteran\\nBoone, I have seen many other individuals perform\\nthe same feat.\\nThe Snuffing of a Candle with a ball, I first had\\nan opportunity of seeing near the banks of Green\\nRiver, not far from a large pigeon roost, to which I\\nhad previously made a visit. I had heard many\\nreports of guns during the early part of a dark night,\\nand knowing them to be rifles, I went towards the\\nspot to ascertain the cause. On reaching the place, I\\nwas welcomed by a dozen tall, stout men, who told\\nme they were exercising for the purpose of enabling\\nthem to shoot in the night at the reflected light from\\nthe eyes of a deer, or wolf, by torch-light.\\nA fire was blazing near, the smoke of which rose\\ncurling among the thick foliage of the trees. At a\\ndistance which rendered it scarcely distinguishable,\\nstood a burning candle, which in reality was only fifty\\nyards from the spot on which we all stood. One man\\nwas within a few yards of it to watch the effect of the\\nshots, as well as to light the candle, should it chance\\nto go out, or to replace it should the shot cut it across.\\nEach marksman shot in his turn. Some never hit\\nneither the snuff or the candle, and were congratulated", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "HIS EARLY ADVENTURES.\\n73\\nwith a loud laugh while others actually snuffed the\\ncandle without putting it out, and were recompensed\\nfor their dexterity with numerous hurrahs. One of\\nthem, who was particularly expert, was very fortunate\\nand snuffed the candle three times out of seven while\\nall the othxer shots either put out the candle oi oit it\\nImmediately under the light.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nLouisiana^ its Discovery and Vicissitudes*\\nLouiBiana, and Its eyentful history. The Expedition of de Sjto.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 .Th\u00c2\u00ab\\nMissionary Marquette. His voyage on the Upper Mississippi.\\nThe Expedition of La Salle. Michilimackinao. Its History.\u00e2\u0080\u0094.\\nPate of the Griffin. Grief of La Salle His voyage of Dis-\\ncovery. Sale of Louisiana to the United States. Remarks ol\\nNapoleon.\\nThe transfer of Louisiana to the United States is\\none of the most interesting events in the history of\\nour country. In the year 1800, Spain, then in\\npossession of the vast region west of the Mississippi,\\nceded it to France. The whole country west of the\\nmajestic river appropriately called the Father of\\nWaters, was then called Louisiana, and its boundaries\\nwere very obscurely defined. Indeed neither the\\nmissionary nor the hunter had penetrated but a very\\nshort distance into those unknown wilds. It was in\\nthe year 1 541 that De Soto, marching from Florida\\nacross the country, came to the banks of this magnifi-\\ncent river, near the present site of Memphis. lie\\nknew not where it took its rise, or where it emptied\\nits swollen flood. But he found a stream more than\\na mile in width, of almost fathomless depth, rolling\\n74", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "LOUISIANA, ITS DISCOVERY, ETC 7$\\nits rapid, turbid stream, on which were floated\\ninnumerable logs and trees, through an almost unin-\\nhabited country of wonderful luxuriance. He was in\\nsearch of gold, and crossing the river, advanced in\\nnorth-westerly direction about two hundred miles, till\\nhe came within sight of the Highlands of the White\\nRiver. He then turned in a southerly direction, and\\ncontinued his explorations, till death soon terminated\\nhis melancholy career.\\nMore than one hundred and thirty years passed\\nover these solitudes, when James Marquette, a French\\nmissionary among the Indians at Saint Marys, the\\noutlet of Lake Superior, resolved to explore the\\nMississippi, of whose magnificence he had heard much\\nfrom the lips of the Indians, who had occasionally\\nextended their hunting tours to its banks. He was\\ninured to all the hardships of the wilderness, seemed\\nto despise wordly comforts, and had a soul of bravery\\nwhich could apparently set all perils at defiance.\\nAnd still he was indued with a poetic nature, which re-\\nveled in the charms of these wild and romantic realms,\\nas he climbed its mountains and floated in his canoe\\nover its silent and placid streams. Even then it was not\\nknown whether the Mississippi emptied its majestic\\nflood into the Pacific Ocean or into the Gulf of Mexico\\nThe foot of the white man upon the shores of Lake Su-\\nperior, had never penetrated beyond the Indian village^", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "76 DANIEL BOONE.\\nwhere the Fox River enters into Green Bay. From this\\npoint Marquette started for the exploration of the\\nMississippi. The party consisted of Mr. Marquette,\\na French gentleman by the name of Joliete, five French\\nvoyageurs and two Indian guides. They transported\\ntheir two birch canoes on their shoulders across the\\nportage from the Fox River to the Wisconsin river.\\nPaddling rapidly down this stream through realms of\\nsilence and solitude, they soon entered the majestic\\nMississippi, more than fifteen hundred miles above\\nits mouth.\\nMarquette seems to have experienced in the high-\\nest degree the romance of his wonderful voyage, foi^\\nhe says that he commenced the descent of the mighty\\nriver with a joy that could not be expressed. It\\nwas the beautiful month of June, 1673, the most\\ngenial season of the year. The skies were bright\\nabove them. The placid stream was fringed with\\nbanks of wonderful luxuriance and beauty, the rocky\\ncliffs at times assuming the aspect of majestic castles\\nof every variety of architecture again the gently\\nswelling hills were robed in sublime forests, and\\nagain the smooth meadows, in their verdure, spread\\nfar away to the horizon. Rapidly the canoes, gently\\nguided by the paddles, floated down the stream.\\nHaving descended the river about one hundred and\\neighty miles, they came to a very well trod Indian", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "LOUISIANA, ITS DISCOVERY, ETC.\\ntrail leading back from the river into the interior. Mar-\\nquette and Joliete had the curiosity and the courage\\nto follow this trail for six miles, until they came to an\\nIndian village. It would seem that some of the\\nIndians there, in their hunting excursions, had wan-\\ndered to some of the French settlements for four of\\ntheir leading men, dressed in the most gorgeous dis-\\nplay of barbaric pomp, brilliant with many colored\\nplumes, came out to meet them and conducted them\\nto the cabin of their chief. He addressed them in the\\nfollowing words\\nHow beautiful is the sun, Frenchman, when thou\\ncomest to visit us. Our whole village welcomes thee.\\nIn peace thou shalt enter all our dwellings.\\nAfter a very pleasant visit they resumed their voyage.\\nThey floated by the mouth of the turbid Missouri,\\nlittle dreaming of the grandeur of the realms watered\\nby that imperial stream. They passed the mouth of\\nthe Ohio, which they recognized as the Belle Riviere,\\nwhich the Indians then called the Wabash. As the\\nfloated rapidly away towards the south they visited\\nmany Indian villages on the banks of the stream,\\nwhere the devoted missionary, Marquette, endeavored\\nto proclaim the gospel of Christ.\\nI did not, says Marquette, fear death. I should\\nhave esteemed it the greatest happiness to have died\\nfor the glory of God.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "yS DANIEL BOONE.\\nThus they continued their exploration as far south\\nas the mouth of the Arkansas river, where they were\\nhospitably received in a very flourishing Indian vil-\\nlage. Being now satisfied that the Mississippi river\\nentered the Gulf of Mexico, somewhere between\\nFlorida and California, they returned to Green Bay\\nby the route of the Illinois river. By taking advan-\\ntage of the eddies, on either side of the stream, it was\\nnot difficult for them, in their light canoes, to make\\nthe ascent.\\nMarquette landed on the western banks of Lake\\nMichigan to preach the gospel to a tribe of Indians\\ncalled the Miames, residing near the present site of\\nChicago. Joliete returned to Quebec to announce the\\nresult of their discoveries. He was received with\\ngreat rejoicing. The whole population flocked to the\\ncathedral, where the Te Demn was sung.\\nFive years passed away, during which the great\\nriver flowed almost unthought of, through its vast\\nand sombre wilderness. At length in the year 1678,\\nLa Salle received a commission from Louis the XIV.\\nof France to explore the Mississippi to its mouth.\\nHaving received from the king the command of\\nFort Frontenac, at the northern extremity of Lake\\nOntario, and a monopoly of the fur trade in all the\\ncountries he should discover, he sailed from Larochelle\\nin a ship well armed and abundantly supplied, in", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "LOUISIANA, ITS DISCOVERY, ETC. 79\\nJune, 1678. Ascending the St. Lawrence to Quebec,\\nhe repaired to Fort Frontenac. With a large number\\nof men he paddled, in birch canoes, to the southern\\nextremity of Lake Ontario, and, by a portage around\\nthe falls of Niagara, entered Lake Erie. Here he\\nbuilt a substantial vessel, called the Gidfin, which\\nwas the first vessel ever launched upon the waters of\\nthat lake. Embarking in this vessel with forty men,\\nin the month of September, a genial and gorgeous\\nmonth in those latitudes, he traversed with favoring\\nbreezes the whole length of the lake, a voyage of two\\nhundred and sixty-five miles, ascended the straits\\nand passed through the Lake of St. Clair, and ran\\nalong the coast of Lake Huron three hundred and\\nsixty miles to Michilimackinac, where the three ma-\\njestic lakes, Superior, Michigan and Huron, form a\\njunction.\\nHere a trading post was established, which subse-\\nquently attained world-wide renown, and to which\\nthe Indians flocked with their furs from almost\\nboundless realms. Mr. Schoolcraft, who some years\\nafter visited this romantic spot, gives the following\\ninteresting account of the scenery and strange life\\nwitnessed there. As these phases of human life have\\nnow passed away, never to be renewed, it seems im-\\nportant that the memory of them should be per-\\npetuated", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "80 DANIEL BOONE.\\nNothing can present a more picturesque and re-\\nfreshing spectacle to the traveler, wearied with the\\nlifeless monotony of a voyage through Lake Huron,\\nthan the first sight of the island of Michilimackinac,\\nwhich rises from the watery horizon in lofty bluffs\\nimprinting a rugged outline along the sky and capped\\nwith a fortress on which the American flag is seen\\nwaving against the blue heavens. The name is a\\ncompound of the word Misril^ signifying great, and\\nMackinac the Indian word for turtle, from a fancied\\nresemblance of the island to a great turtle lying upon\\nthe water.\\nIt is a spot of much interest, aside from its ro-\\nmantic beauty, in consequence of its historical asso-\\nciations and natural curiosities. It is nine miles in\\ncircumference, and its extreme elevation above the\\nlake is over three hundred feet The town is pleas-\\nantly situated around a small bay at the southern\\nextremity of the island, and contains a few hundred\\nsouls, which are sometimes swelled to one or two\\nthousand by the influx of voyageurs, traders and\\nIndians. On these occasions its beautiful harbor is\\nseen checkered with American vessels at anchor, and\\nIndian canoes rapidly shooting across the water in\\nevery direction.\\nIt was formerly the seat of an extensive fur trade\\nat present it is noted for the great amount of trout", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "LOUISIANA, ITS DISCOVERY, ETC. 8 1\\nand white fish annually exported. Fort Mackinac\\nstood on a rocky bluff overlooking the town. The\\nruins of Fort Holmes are on the apex of the island.\\nIt was built by the British in the war of 1812, under\\nthe name of Fort George, and was changed to its\\npresent appellation after the surrender to the Amer-\\nicans, in compliment to the memory of Major\\nHolmes, who fell in the attack upon the island.\\nThe old town of Michilimackinac stood at the ex-\\ntreme point of the peninsula of Michigan, nine miles\\nsouth of the island. Eight years before La Salle s ex-\\npedition. Father Marquette, the French missionary,\\nvisited this spot with a party of Hurons, upon whom\\nhe prevailed to locate themselves. A fort was soon\\nconstructed, and became an important post. It con-\\ntinued to be the seat of the fur trade, and the undis-\\nturbed rendezvous of the Indian tribes during the whole\\nperiod that the French excercised dominion over the\\nCanadas.\\nHere at Michilimackinac, La Salle purchased a\\nrich cargo of furs, exchanging for them his goods at\\nan immense profit. The Griffiii, laden with wealth,\\nset out on her return and was wrecked by the way\\nwith total loss. La Salle with his companions had\\nembarked in birch canoes, and descending Lake\\nMichigan to near its southern extremity, they landed\\nand erected a fort which they called Miamis. They", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "g2 DANIEL BOONE.\\nthen carried their canoes across to the Illinois river\\nand paddled down that stream until they came near\\nto the present site of Peoria, where they established\\nanother fort, which La Salle, grief-stricken in view of\\nhis loss, named Crkve-Cceur, or Heartsore. Here the\\nenergetic and courageous adventurer left his men in\\nwinter quarters, while, with but three companions, he\\ntraversed the wilderness on foot, amidst the snows of\\nwinter, to Fort Frontenac, a distance of fifteen hun-\\ndred miles. After an absence of several weeks, he\\nreturned with additional men and the means of build-\\ning a large and substantial flat-bottomed boat, with\\nwhich to descend the Illinois river to the Mississippi,\\nand the latter stream to its mouth.\\nThe romantic achievement was successfully accom-\\nplished. The banners of France were unfurled along\\nthe banks of the majestic river and upon the shores\\nof the Gulf of Mexico. This whole region which\\nFrance claimed by the right of discovery, was named\\nin her or of the king of France, Louisiana. Its limits\\nwere necessarily quite undefined. In 1684, a French\\ncolony of two hundred and eighty persons was sent\\nout to effect a settlement on the Lower Mississippi.\\nPassing bv the mouth of the river without discover*\\ning it^ they landed in Texas, and took possession of\\nthe country in the name of the king of France.\\nDisaster followed disaster. La Salle died, and the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "LOUISIANA, ITS DISCOVERY, ETC 83\\ncolonists were exterminated by the Indians. Not\\nlong after this, all the country west of the Mississippi\\nwas ceded by France to Spain, and again, some years\\nafter, was surrendered back again by Spain to France,\\nWe have not space here to allude to the details of\\nthese varied transactions. But this comprehensive\\nrecord seems to be essential to the full understanding\\nof the narrative upon which we have entered.\\nIt was in the year 1763 that Louisiana was ceded,\\nby France, to Spain. In the year 1800, it was yielded\\nb-^ck to France, under Napoleon, by a secret article\\niu the treaty of Sn. Ildefonso. It had now become a\\nmatter of infinite moment to the United States that\\nthe great Republic should have undisputed command\\nof the Mississippi, from its source to its mouth.\\nPresident Jefferson instructed our Minister at Paris,\\nRobert Livingston, to negotiate with the French\\nGovernment for the purchase of Louisiana. France\\nwas then at war with England. The British fleet\\nswept triumphantly all the seas. Napoleon, conscious\\nthat he could not protect I ouisiana from British\\narms, consented to the sale. We are informed that\\non the loth of April, 1803, he summoned two of his\\nministers in council, and said to them\\nI am fully sensible of the value of Louisiana and\\nit was my wish to repair the error of the French dip-\\nlomatists who abandoned it in 1763. I have scarcely", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "84 DANIEL BOONE.\\nrecovered it before I run the risk of losing it But if\\nI am obliged to give it up it shall cost more to those\\nwho force me to part with it, than to those to whom\\nI yield it. The English have despoiled France of aM\\nher Northern possessions in America, and now they\\ncovet those of the South. I am determined that they\\nshall not have the Mississippi. Although Louisiana\\nis but a trifle compared with their vast possessions in\\nother parts of the globe, yet, judging from the vexa-\\ntion they have manifested on seeing it return to the\\npower of France, I am certain that their first object\\nwill be to obtain possession of it.\\nThey will probably commence the war in that\\nquarter. They have twenty vessels in the Gulf of\\nMexico, and our affairs in St. Domingo are daily\\ngetting worse, since the death of Le Clere. The con-\\nquest of Louisiana might be easily made, and I have\\nnot a moment to lose in putting it out of their reach.\\nI am not sure but that they have already began an\\nattack upon it. Such a measure would be in accord-\\nance with their habits and in their place I should\\nnot wait. I am inclined, in order to deprive them of\\nall prospect of ever possessing it, to cede it to the\\nUnited States. Indeed I can hardly say I cede it,\\nfor I do not yet possess it. And if I wait but a short\\ntime, my enemies may leave me nothing but an empty\\ntitle to grant to the R epublic I wish to conciliate. They", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "LOUISIANA, ITS DISCOVERY, ETC. 85\\nft only ask for one city of Louisiana; but I consider f\\nthe whole colony as lost. And I believe that in the\\nhands of this rising power, it will be more useful to\\nthe political and even the commercial interests of\\nFrance, than if I should attempt to retain it. Let\\nme have both of your opinions upon this subject.\\nOne of the ministers, Barbe Marbois, cordially\\napproved of the plan of cession. The other oppo-\\nsed it. After long deliberation, the conference was\\nclosed, without Napoleon making known his decision.\\nThe next day he sent for Barbe Marbois, and said to\\nhim\\nThe season for deliberation is over. I have\\ndetermined to part with Louisiana. I shall give up\\nnot only New Orleans, but the whole colony without\\nreservation. That I do not undervalue Louisiana I\\nhave sufficiently proved, as the object of my first\\ntreaty with Spain was to recover it. But though I\\nregret parting with it, I am convinced that it would\\nbe folly to persist in trying to keep it. I commission\\nyou, therefore, to negotiate this affair with the envoys\\nof the United States. Do not wait the arrival of Mr. f\\nMunroe, but go this very day and confer with Mr.\\nLivingston.\\nRemember, however, that I need ample funds for\\ncarrying on the war and I do not wish to commence\\nit by levying new taxes. During the last century.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "86 DANIEL BOONE.\\nFrance and Spain have incurred great expense in the\\nimprovement of Louisiana, for which her trade has\\nnever indemnified them. Large sums have been\\nadvanced to different companies, which have never\\nreturned to the treasury. It is fair that I should\\nrequire payment for these. Were I to regulate my\\ndemands by the importance of this territory to the\\nUnited States, they would be unbounded. But being\\nobliged to part with it, I shall be moderate in my\\nterms. Still, remember I must have fifty millions of\\nfrancs ($10,000,000), and I will not consent to take less.\\nI would rather make some desperate effort to preserve\\nthis fine country.\\nNegotiations commenced that day. Soon Mr.\\nMunroe arrived. On the 30th of April, 1803, the\\ntreaty was signed, the United States paying fifteen\\nmillion dollars for the entire territory. It was\\nstipulated by Napoleon that Louisiana should be, as\\nsoon as possible, incorporated into the Union and\\nthat its inhabitants should enjoy the same rights,\\nprivileges, and immunities as other citizens of the\\nUnited States. The third article of the treaty, securing\\nto them these benefits, was drawn up by Napoleon\\nhimself. He presented it to the plenipotentiaries with\\nthese words\\nMake it known to the people of Louisiana, that\\nwe regret to part with them that we have stipulated", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "LOUISIANA, ITS DISCOVERY, ETC. 87\\nfor all the advantages they could desire and that\\nFrance, in giving them up, has insured to them the\\ngreatest of all. They could never have prospered\\nunder any European government, as they will when\\nthey become independent. But while they enjoy the\\nprivileges of liberty, let them ever remember that they\\nare French, and preserve for their mother country\\nthat affection, which a common origin inspires.\\nThis purchase was an immense acquisition to the\\nUnited States. I consider, said Mr. Livingston.\\nthat from this day, the United States take rank\\nwith the first powers of Europe, and now she has\\nentirely escaped from the power of England.\\nNapoleon was also well pleased with the transaction,\\nBy this cession, he said, I have secured the power\\nof the United States, and given to England a maritime\\nrival, who, at some future time, will humble her\\npride.\\nThe boundaries of this unexampled purchase could\\nnot be clearly defined. There was not any known\\nlandmarks to which reference could be made. The\\nUnited States thus had the sole claim to the vast\\nterritory west of the Mississippi, extending on the\\nnorth through Oregon to the Pacific Ocean, and on\\nthe south to the Mexican dominions. From the day oi\\nthe transfer, the natural resources of the great valley\\nof the Mississippi began to be rapidly developed.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "S8\\nDANIEL BOONE.\\nThe accompanying map will enable the reader more\\nfully to understand the geography of the above\\nnarrative.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nCamp Life Beyond the Alleghanies,\\nJohn Plnley and hte Adventures. Aspect of the Country. Boone s\\nPrivate Character. His Love for the Wilderness. First view of\\nKentucky. Emigrants* Dress. Hunter s Home. Capture of\\nBoone and Stewart by the Indians. Their Escape. Singular\\nIncident.\\nIn the year 1767, a bold hunter by the name of\\nJohn Finley with two or three companions crossed\\nthe mountain range of the Alleghanies into the region\\nbeyond, now known as Kentucky. The mountains\\nwhere he crossed, consisting of a series of parallel\\nridges, some of which were quite impassable save at\\nparticular points, presented a rugged expanse nearly\\nfifty miles in breadth. It took many weary days for\\nthese moccassined feet to traverse the wild solitudes.\\nThe Indian avoids the mountains. He chooses the\\nsmooth prairie where the buffalo and the elk graze,\\nand where the wild turkey, the grouse and the prairie\\nchicken, wing their flight, or the banks of some placid\\nstream over which he can glide in his birch canoe, and\\nwhere fish of every variety can be taken. Indeed\\nthe Indians, with an eye for picturesque beauty,\\nseldom reared their villages in the forest, whose glooms\\n(89)", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "90 DANIEL BOONE.\\nrepelled them. Generally where the forest approached\\nthe stream, they clustered their wigwams in its edge,\\nwith the tranquil river and the open country spread\\nout before them.\\nJohn Finley and his companions traversed the broad\\nexpanse of the Alleghanies, without meeting any\\nsigns of human life. The extreme western ridge of\\nthese parallel eminences or spurs, has received the\\nname of the Cumberland mountains. Passing through\\na gorge, which has since then become renowned in\\npeace and war as Cumberland Gap, they entered upon\\na vast undulating expanse, of wonderful fertility and\\nbeauty. In its rivers, its plains, its forests, its gentle\\neminences, its bright skies and salubrious clime, it\\npresented then, as now, as attractive a residence for\\nman as this globe can furnish. Finley and his com-\\npanions spent several months roving through this,\\nto them, new Eden. Game of every variety abounded.\\nThrough some inexplicable reason, no Indians held\\npossession of the country. But wandering tribes,\\nwhose homes and acknowledged territory were far\\naway in the north, the west, and the south, were ever\\ntraversing these regions in hunting bands. They\\noften met in bloody encounters. These conflicts\\nwere so frequent and so sanguinary, that this realm\\nsubsequently received the appropriate name of The\\ndark and bloody ground/", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "CAMP LIFE. 91\\nAfter an absence of many months, Finley and his\\ncompanions returned to North Carolina, with the\\nmost glowing accounts of the new country which they\\nhad found, Their story of the beauty of those realms\\nwas so extravagant, that many regarded them as gross\\nexaggerations. It subsequently appeared, however,\\nthat they were essentially true. A more lovely and\\nattractive region cannot be found on earth. It is\\nman s inhumanity to man, mainly, which has ever\\ncaused such countless millions to mourn.\\nDaniel Boone listened eagerly to the recital of John\\nFinley and his associates. The story they told\\nadded fuel to the flame of emigration, which was\\nalready consuming him. He talked more and more\\nearnestly of his desire to cross the mountains. We\\nknow not what were the emotions with which his wife\\nwas agitated, in view of her husband s increasing\\ndesire for another plunge into the wilderness. We\\nsimply know that through her whole career, she\\nmanifested the most tender solicitude to accommodate\\nherself to the wishes of her beloved husband. Indeed\\nhe was a man peculiarly calculated to win a noble\\nH^oman s love. Gentle in his demeanor, and in all his\\nutterances, mild and affectionate in his intercourse\\nwith his family, he seemed quite unconscious of the\\nheroism he manifested in those achievements, which\\ngave him ever increasing renown.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "92 DANIEL BOONE.\\nLife in the L abin of the frontiersman, where the\\nwants are few, and the supplies abundant, is compara-\\ntively a leisure life. These men knew but little o(\\nthe hurry and the bustle with which those in the\\ncrowded city engage daily in the almost deadly strug-\\ngle for bread. There was no want in the cabin of\\nDaniel Boone. As these two hardy adventurers,\\nJohn Finley and Daniel Boone, sat together hour\\nafter hour by the fire, talking of the new countiy\\nwhich Finley had explored, the hearts of both burned\\nwithin them again to penetrate those remote realms.\\nTo them there were no hardships in the journey. At\\nthe close of each day s march, they could in a few\\nmoments throw up a shelter, beneath which they\\nwould enjoy more luxurious sleep than the traveler,\\nafter being rocked in the rail-cars, can now find on\\nthe softest couches of our metropolitan hotels. And\\nthe dainty morsel cut with artistic skill from the fat\\nbuffalo, and toasted on the end of a ramrod before\\nthe camp fire, possessed a relish which few epicures\\nhave ever experienced at the most sumptuous tables\\nin Paris or New York. And as these men seem to\\nhave been constitutionally devoid of any emotions of\\nfear from wild beasts, or still wilder Indians, the idea\\nof a journey of a few hundred miles in the wilderness\\nwas not one to be regarded by them with any special\\nsolicitude.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "CAMP LIFE. 93\\nGradually they formed a plan for organizing a\\nsmall party to traverse these beautiful realms in\\nsearch of a new home. A company of six picked\\nmen was formed, and Daniel Boone was chosen their\\nleader. The names of this party were John Finley,\\nJohn Stewart, Joseph Holden, James Moncey, and\\nWilliam Cool. A journey of many hundred miles\\nwas before them. Through the vast mountain bar-\\nrier, which could only be traversed by circuitous wan-\\nderings some hundreds of miles in extent, their route\\nwas utterly pathless, and there were many broad and\\nrapid streams to be crossed, which flowed through\\nthe valleys between the mountain ridges. Though\\nprovision in abundance was scattered along the way,\\nstrong clothing must be provided, powder and bullets\\nthey must take with them, and all these necessaries\\nwere to be carried upon their backs, for no pack\\nhorses could thread the defiles of the mountains or\\nclimb their rugged cliffs. It was also necessary to\\nmake provision for the support of the families of\\nthese adventurers during their absence of many\\nmonths. It does not appear that Mrs. Boone pre-\\nsented any obstacle in the way of her husband s em-\\nbarking in this adventure. Her sons were old enough\\nto assist her in the management of the farm, and\\ngame was still to be found in profusion in the silent\\nprairies and sublime forests which surrounded them.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "94 DANIEL BUOiNt.\\nIn the sunny clime of North CaroHiia May comes\\nwith all the balminess and soft zephyrs of a more\\nnorthern summer. It was a beautiful morning on\\nthe first day of May, 1769, when Boone and his com-\\npanions commenced their adventurous journey. In\\nthe brief narrative which Boone has given of this ex-\\ncursion, we perceive that it was with some consider-\\nable regret that he separated himself from his much\\nloved wife and children on the peaceful banks of the\\nYadkin.\\nWe must infer that the first part of their journey\\nwas fatiguing, for it took them a full month to ac-\\ncomplish the passage of the mountains. Though it\\nwas less than a hundred miles across these ridges in\\na direct line, the circuitous route which it was neces-\\nsary to take greatly lengthened the distance. And\\nas they were never in a hurry, they would be very\\nlikely, when coming to one of the many lovely valleys\\non the banks of the Holstein, or the Clinch river, to\\nbe enticed to some days of delay. Where now there\\nare thriving villages filled with the hum of the indus-\\ntries of a high civilization, there was then but the\\nsolitary landscape dotted with herds of buffalo and\\nof deer.\\nBoone says that in many of these regions he found\\nbuffalo roving in companies of several hundreds feed-\\ning upon tke tender leaves of the canebrake, or", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "CAMP LIFE. 95\\nbrowsing upon the smooth and extended meadows.\\nBeing far removed from the usual route of the Indian\\nhunters, they were very tame, manifesting no fear at\\nthe approach of man.\\nOn the seventh of June, our adventurers, at the\\nclose of a day of arduous travel, reached an eminence\\nof the Cumberland Mountains, which gave them a\\ncommanding and an almost entrancing view of the\\nregion beyond, now known as the State of Kentucky.\\nAt the height upon which they stood, the expanse\\nspreading out to the West, until lost in the distant,\\nhorizon, presented an aspect of nature s loveliness\\nsuch as few eyes have ever beheld. The sun was\\nbrilliantly sinking, accompanied by a gorgeous retinue\\nof clouds. Majestic forests, wide-spread prairies, and\\nlakes and rivers, gilded by the setting sun, confirmed\\nthe truth of the most glowing reports which had been\\nheard from the lips of Finley. An artist has seized\\nupon this incident, which he has transferred to\\ncanvass, in a picture which he has entitled, Daniel\\nBoone s first view of Kentucky. Engravings have\\nbeen so multiplied of this painting, that it has become\\nfamiliar to most eyes.\\nThe appearance of our adventurers is thus graphi-\\ncally described by Mr. Peck, in his excellent Life of\\nDaniel Boone.\\nTheir dress was of the description usually worn at", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "96 DANIEL BOONE.\\nthat perbd by all forest-rangers. The outside garment\\nwas a hunting shirt, or loose open frock, made of\\ndressed deer-skins. Leggins, or drawers, of the same\\nmaterial, covered the lower extremities, to which was\\nappended a pair of moccasins for the feet. The cape\\nor collar of the hunting shirt, and the seams of the\\nleggins were adorned with fringes. The under-\\ngarments were of coarse cotton. A leather belt\\nencircled the body. On the right side was suspended\\nthe tomahawk, to be used as a hatchet. On the left\\nwas the hunting-knife, powder-horn, bullet-pouch, and\\nother appendages indispensable for a hunter. Each\\nperson bore his trusty rifle, and as the party made its\\ntoilsome way amid the shrubs, and over the logs and\\nloose shrubs, that accident had thrown upon the\\nobscure trail they were following, each man gave a\\nsharp lookout, as though danger, or a lurking enemy\\nwere near. Their garments were soiled and rent the\\nunavoidable result of long travel and exposure to the\\nheavy rains which had fallen, the weather having been\\nstormy and uncomfortable, and they had traversed a\\nmountainous wilderness for several hundred miles.\\nThe leader of the party was of full size, with a hardy,\\nrobust, sinewy frame, and keen piercing hazel eyes,\\nthat glanced with quickness at every object as they\\npassed on, now cast forward in the direction they\\nwere travelling, for signs f\u00c2\u00bbf an old trail, and in the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "CAMP LIFE. 97\\nnext moment directed askance into the dense forest\\nor the deep ravine, as if watching some concealed\\nenemy. The reader will recognise in this man, the\\npioneer Boone at the head of his companions.\\nThe peculiar character of these men is developed\\nin the fact, that, rapidly descending the western de-\\nclivity of the mountains, they came to a beautiful\\nmeadow upon the banks of a little stream now called\\nRed River. Here they reared their hut, and here\\nthey remained in apparently luxurious idleness all\\nthe summer and here Daniel Boone remained all of\\nthe ensuing winter. Their object could scarcely have\\nbeen to obtain furs, for they could not transport them\\nacross the mountains. There were in the vicinity\\nquite a number of salt springs which the animals of\\nthe forest frequented in immense numbers. In the\\nbrief account which Boone gives of these long months,\\nhe simply says\\nIn this forest, the habitation of beasts of every\\nkind natural to America, we practised hunting with\\ngreat success until the twenty-second day of Decem-\\nber following.\\nBears, buffalo and deer were mainly the large game\\nwhich fell before their rifles. Water-fowl, and also\\nland birds of almost every variety, were found in\\ngreat profusion. It must have been a strange life\\nwhich these six men experienced during these seven", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "98 DANIEL BOONE.\\nmonths in the camp on the silent waters of the Red\\nRiver. No Indians were seen, and no traces of them\\nwere discovered through this period. The hunters\\nmade several long excursions in various directions,\\napparently examining the country in reference to\\ntheir own final settlement in it, and to the introduc-\\ntion of emigrants from the Atlantic border. Indeed\\nit has been said that Daniel Boone was the secret\\nagent of a company on the other side of the moun-\\ntains, who wished to obtain possession of a large\\nextent of territory for the formation of a colony there.\\nBut of this nothing with certainty is known. Yet\\nthere must have been some strong controlling motive\\nto have induced these men to remain so long in their\\ncamp, which consisted simply of a shed of logs, on\\nthe banks of this solitary stream.\\nThree sides of the hut were enclosed. The inter-\\nstices between the logs were filled with moss or clay.\\nThe roof was also carefully covered with bark, so as\\nto be impervious to rain. The floor was spread ovei\\nwith dry leaves and with the fragrant twigs of the\\nhemlock, presenting a very inviting couch for the re-\\npose of weary men. The skins of buffaloes and of\\nbears presented ample covering for their night s re-\\npose. The front of the hut, facing the south, was\\nentirely open, before which blazed their camp-fire.\\nHere the men seem to have been very happy. The", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "CAMP LIFE. 99\\nclimate was mild they were friendly to each other\\nthey had good health and abundance of food was\\nfound in their camp.\\nOn the twenty-second of December, Boone, with\\none of his companions, John Stewart, set out on one\\nof their exploring tours. There were parts of the\\ncountry called canebrakes, covered with cane growing\\nso thickly together as to be quite impenetrable to the\\nhunter. Through portions of these the buffaloes had\\ntrampled their way in large companies, one following\\nanother, opening paths called streets. These streets\\nhad apparently been trodden for ages. Following\\nthese paths, Boone and his companion had advanced\\nseveral miles from their camp, when suddenly a large\\nparty of Indians sprang from their concealment and\\nseized them both as captives. The action was so\\nsudden that there was no possibility of resistance. In\\nthe followinc^ words Boone describes this event\\nThis day John Stewart and I had a pleasing ram^\\nble, but fortune changed the scene in the close of it\\nWe had passed through a great forest, on which stood\\nmyriads of trees, some gay with blossoms, others rich\\nwith fruits. Nature was here a series of wonders and\\na fund of delight. Here she displayed her ingenuity\\nand industry in a variety of flowers and fruits, beau-\\ntifully colored, elegantly shaped, and charmingly\\nflavored and we were diverted with innumerable\\nQf", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "lOO DANIEL BOONE.\\nanimals presenting themselves perpetually to our\\nview.\\nIn the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as\\nwe ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of\\nIndians rushed out upon us from a thick canebrake\\nand made us prisoners. The time of our sorrow was\\nnow arrived. They plundered us of what we had,\\nand kept us in confinement seven days, treating us\\nwith common savage usage.\\nThe peculiar character of Boone was here remark-\\nably developed. His whole course of life had made\\nhim familiar with the manners and customs of the\\nIndians. They were armed only with bows and ar-\\nrows. He had the death-dealing rifle which they\\nknew not how to use. His placid temper was never\\nruffled by elation in prosperity or despair in adver-\\nsity. He assumed perfect contentment with his lot,\\ncultivated friendly relations with them, taught them\\nmany things they did not know, and aided them in\\nall the ways in his power. His rifle ball would in-\\nstantly strike down the buffalo, when the arrow of the\\nIndian would only goad him to frantic flight.\\nThe Indians admired the courage of their captive,\\nappreciated his skill, and began to regard him as a\\nfriend and a helper. They relaxed their vigilance*\\nwhile every day they were leading their prisoners far\\naway from their camp into the boundless West", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "CAMP LIFE. lOl\\nBoone was so well acquainted with the Indian char-\\nacter as to be well aware that any attempt to escape,\\nif unsuccessful, would cause his immediate death.\\nThe Indians, exasperated by what they would deem\\nsuch an insult to their hospitality, would immediately\\nbury the tomahawk in his brain. Thus seven days\\nand nights passed away.\\nAt the close of each day s travel the Indians selected\\nsome attractive spot for the night s encampment or\\nbivouac, according to the state of the weather, near\\nsome spring or stream. Here they built a rousing\\nfire, roasted choice cuts from the game they had\\ntaken, and feasted abundantly with jokes and laugh-\\nter, and many boastful stories of their achievements.\\nThey then threw themselves upon the ground for\\nsleep, though some one was appointed to keep a watch\\nover their captives. But deceived by the entire con-\\ntentment and friendliness, feigned by Boone, and by\\nStewart who implicitly followed the counsel of his\\nleader s superior mind, all thoughts of any attempt of\\ntheir captives to escape soon ceased to influence the\\nsavages.\\nOn the seventh night after the capture, the Indians,\\ngorged with an abundant feast, were all soundly\\nasleep. It was midnight. The flickering fire burned\\nfeebly. The night was dark. They were in the\\nmidst of an apparently boundless forest. The favor-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "102 DANIEL BOONE.\\nable hour for an attempt to escape had come. But it\\nwas full of peril. Failure was certain death, for the\\nIndians deemed it one of the greatest of all crimes\\nfor a captive who had been treated with kindness to\\nattempt to escape. A group of fierce savages were\\nsleeping around, each one of whom accustomed to\\nmidnight alarms, was supposed to sleep, to use an\\nexpressive phrase, with one eye open. Boone,\\nwho had feigned sound slumber, cautiously awoke\\nhis companion who was asleep and motioned him to\\nfollow. The rustling of a leaf, the crackling of a\\ntwig, would instantly cause every savage to grasp his\\nbow and arrow and spring from the ground. Fortu-\\nnately the Indians had allowed their captives to re-\\ntain their guns, which had proved so valuable in\\nobtaining game.\\nWith step as light as the fall of a feather these men\\nwith moccasined feet crept from the encampment\\nAfter a few moments of intense solicitude, they found\\nthemselves in the impenetrable gloom of the forest,\\nand their captors still undisturbed. With vastly\\nsuperior native powers to the Indian, and equally accus-\\ntomed to forest life, Boone was in all respects their\\nsuperior. With the instinct of the bee, he made a\\nstraight line towards the encampment they had left,\\nwith the locality of which the Indians were not ac-\\nquainted. The peril which menaced them added", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "CAMP LIFE. 103\\nwings to their flight. It was mid-wii ter, and though\\nnot very cold in that ch mate. fortunately for them, the\\nDecember nights were long.\\nSix precious hours would pass before the dawn of\\nthe morning would struggle through the tree-tops.\\nTill then the bewildered Indians could obtain no clue\\nwhatever to the direction of their flight. Carefully\\nguarding against leaving any traces of their footsteps\\nbehind them, and watching with an eagle eye lest\\nthey should encounter any other band of savages,\\nthey pressed forward hour after hour with sinew? ap-\\nparently as tireless as if they had been wrought of iron.\\nWhen the fugitives reached their camp they found it\\nplundered and deserted. Whether the red men had\\ndiscovered it and carried ofl their companions as\\nprisoners, or whether the white men in a panic had\\ndestroyed what they could not remove and had at-\\ntempted a retreat to the settlements, was never\\nknown. It is probable that in some way they per-\\nished in the wilderness, and that their fate is to be\\nadded to the thousands of tragedies occurring in this\\nworld which no pen has recorded.\\nThe intrepid Boone and his companion Stewart\\nseemed, however, to have no idea of abandoning their\\nencampment. But apprehensive that the Indians\\nmight have discovered their retreat, they reared a\\nsmall hut in another spot, still more secret and", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "I04 DANIEL BOONE.\\nsecure. It is difficult to imagine what motive could\\nhave led these two men to remain any longer in these\\nsolitudes, five hundred miles from home, exposed to\\nso many privations and to such fearful peril. Not-\\nwithstanding the utmost care in husbanding their\\nresources, their powder and lead were rapidly disap-\\npearing, and there was no more to be obtained in the\\nwilderness. But here they remained a month, doing\\napparently nothing, but living luxuriously, according\\nto their ideas of good cheer. The explanation is\\nprobably to be found in the fascination of this life of\\na hunter, which once enjoyed, seems almost irresist-\\nible, even to those accustomed to all the appliances\\nof a high civilization.\\nA gentleman from New York, who spent a winter\\namong the wild scenes of the Rocky Mountains,\\ndescribes in the following graphic language, the effect\\nof these scenes upon his own mind\\nWhen I turned my horse s head from Pikes Peak\\nI quite regretted the abandonment of my mountair\\nlife, solitary as it was, and more than once thought of\\nagain taking the trail to the Salado Valley, where I\\nenjoyed such good sport. Apart from the feeling of\\nloneliness, which anyone in my situation must natu-\\nrally have experienced, surrounded by the stupendous\\nworks of nature, which in all their solitary grandeur\\nCrowned upon me, there was something inexpressibly", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "CAMP LIFi:. 105\\nexhilarating in the sensation of positive freedom from\\nall worldly care, and a consequent expansion of the\\nsinews, as it were, of mind and body, which made me\\nfeel elastic as a ball of india-rubber, and in such a\\nstate of perfect ease, that no more dread of scalping\\nIndians entered my mind, than if I had been sitting in\\nBroadway, in one of the windows of the Astor\\nHouse.\\nA citizen of the world, I never found any difficulty\\nin investing my resting place wherever it might be,\\nwith the attributes of a home. Although liable to\\nthe accusation of barbarism, I must confess that the\\nvery happiest moments of my life have been spent in\\nthe wilderness of the Far West. I never recall but\\nwith pleasure the remembrance of my solitary camp\\nin the Bayou Salado, with no friend near me more\\nfaithful than my rifle. With a plentiful supply of dry\\npine logs on the fire, and its cheerful blaze streaming\\nfar up into the sky, illuminating the valley far and\\nnear, I would sit enjoying the genial warmth, and\\nwatch the blue smoke as it curled upward, building\\ncastles in its vapory wreaths. Scarcely did I ever\\nwish to change such hours of freedom for all the\\nluxuries of civilized life and, unnatural and extra-\\nordinary as it may appear, yet such are the fascina-\\ntions of the life of the mountain hunter, that I believe\\nthat not one instance could be adduced of even the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "Io6 DANIEL BOONE.\\nmost polished and civilized of men, who had once\\ntasted the sweets of its attendant liberty, and freedons\\nfrom even worldly, care, not regretting to exchange\\nthem for the monotonous life of the settlements, and\\nnot sighing and sighing again for its pleasures and\\nallurements.\\nA hunter s camp in the Rocky Mountains, is quite\\na picture. It is invariably made in a picturesque\\nlocality, for, like the Indian, the white hunter has an\\neye to the beautiful. Nothing can be more social and\\ncheering than the welcome blaze of the camp-fire on\\na cold winter s night, and nothing more amusing or\\nentertaining, if not instructive, than the rough con-\\nversation of the simple-minded mountaineers, whose\\nnearly daily task is all of exciting adventure, since\\ntheir whole existence is spent in scenes of peril and\\nprivation. Consequently the narration is a tale of\\nthrilling accidents, and hair-breadth escapes, which,\\nthough simple matter-of-fact to them, appears a\\nstartling romance to those unacquainted with the\\nlives led by those men, who, with the sky for a roof,\\nand their rifles to supply them with food and clothing,\\ncall no man lord or master, and are as free as the\\ngame they follow.\\nThere are many events which occurred in the lives\\nof Boone and his companions, which would seem\\nabsolutely incredible were they not sustained by", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "CAMP LIFE. 107\\nevidence beyond dispute. Boone and Stewart were in\\na boundless, pathless, wilderness of forests, mountains,\\nrivers and lakes. Their camp could not be reached\\nfrom the settlements, but by a journey of many weeks,\\napparently without the smallest clue to its location.\\nAnd yet the younger brother of Boone, upon whom\\nhad been conferred his father s singular baptismal\\nname of Squire, set out with a companion to cross\\nthe mountains, in search of Daniel. One day in the\\nlatter part of January, Boone and Stewart were quite\\nalarmed in seeing two men approach their camp.\\nThey supposed of course that they were Indians, and\\nthat they were probably followed by a numerous band.\\nEscape was impossible. Captivity and death seemed\\ncertain. But to their suiprise and delight, the two\\nstrangers proved to be white men one the brother\\nof Daniel Boone, and the other a North Carolinian\\nwho had accompanied him. They brought with them\\nquite a supply of powder and lead inestimable\\ntreasures in the remote wilderness. Daniel, in his\\nAutobiography, in the following simple strain, alludes\\nto this extraordinary occurrence\\nAbout this time my brother Squire Bocne, with\\nanother adventurer, who came to explore the country\\nshortly after us, was wandering through the forest,\\ndetermined to find me if possible, and accidentally\\nfound out camp. Notwithstanding the unfortunate", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "I08 DANIEL BOONE.\\ncircuni.stances of our company, and our dangerous\\nsituation as surrounded by hostile savages, our\\nmeeting so fortunately in the wilderness made ua\\nreciprocally sensible of the utmost satisfaction. So\\nmuch does friendship triumph over misfortune, that\\nsorrows and sufferings vanish at the meeting, not only\\nof real friends, but of the most distant acquaintances,\\nand substitute happiness in their room.\\nOur hardy pioneer, far more familiar with his rifle\\nthan his pen, comments as follows on their condition\\nWe were in a helpless, dangerous situation\\nexposed daily to perils and death, among savages\\nand wild beasts. Not a white man in the country but\\nourselves. Thus situated, many hundred miles from\\nour families, in the howling wilderness, I believe few\\nwould have equally enjoyed the happiness we expe-\\nrienced. I often observed to my brother, You see\\nhow little nature requires to be satisfied. Felicity,\\nthe companion of content, is rather found in our own\\nbreasts, than in the enjoyment of external things and\\nI firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to\\nmake a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This\\nconsists in a full resignation to the will of Providence\\nand a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path strewed\\nwith briers and thorns.*", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nIndian Warfare,\\nAlleghany Rjdges. Voyage in a canoe Speech of Logan, Battle at\\nthe Kanawha. Narrative of i^ raiicis iViurion. important com-\\nmission iioone. Council at Ch cleville. Treaty of Peace.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nImlay s description of Kentucky. Settlement right Richard\\nHenderson. Boone s letter. Fort at Boonesborough.\\nThe valley of the Clinch liver is but one of the\\nmany magnificent ravines amid the gigantic ranges\\nof the Alleghany mountains. Boone, speaking of\\nthese ridges which he so often had occasion to cross,\\nsays\\nThese mountains in the wilderness, as we pass\\nfrom the old settlements in Virginia to Kentucky, are\\nranged in a south-west and north-east direction and\\nare of great length and breadth and not far distant\\nfrom each other. Over them nature hath formed\\npasses that are less difficult than might be expected\\nfrom a view of such huge piles. The aspect of these\\ncliffs is so wild and horrid that it is impossible to be-\\nhold them without terror. The spectator is apt to\\nimagine that nature has formerly suffered some vio-\\nlent convulsion, and that these are the dismembered\\nremains of the dreadful shock.\\n10 (100)", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "no DANIEL BOJNE.\\nOne cannot but regret that no memorials are left\\nof a wonderful journey, full of romantic interest and\\nexciting adventure, which Boone at one time took to\\nthe Falls of the Ohio, to warn some surveyors of their\\ndanger. He reached them in safety, rescued them\\nfrom certain death, and conducted them triumphantly\\nback to the settlements. So long as the white men,\\nwith their rifles, could keep upon the open prairie,\\nthey could defend themselves from almost any number\\nof Indians, who could only assail them with bows and\\narrows. But the moment they entered the forest, or\\nany ravine among the hills, the little band was liable\\nto hear the war-whoop of a thousand Indian braves in\\nthe ambush around, and to be assailed by a storm of\\narrows and javelins from unseen hands.\\nA few days after Boone s arrival at the encanip-\\nir^-nt near the Falls of the Ohio, and as the surveyors\\nwere breaking camp in preparation for their precipi-\\ntate retreat, several of their number who had gone to\\na spring at a short distajfcce from the camp, were sud-\\ndenly attacked on the twentieth of July by a large\\nparty of Indians. One was instantly killed. The\\nrest being nearly surrounded, fled as best they could\\nin all directions. One man hotly pursued, rushed\\nalong an Indian trail till he reached the Ohio river.\\nHere he chanced to find a bark canoe. He jumped\\ninto it and pushed out into the rapid stream till be-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "INDIAN WARFARE. Ill\\nyond the reach of the Indian arrows. The swift\\ncurrent bore him down the river, by curves and head-\\nlands, till he was far beyond the encampment.\\nTo return against the strong flood, with the savages\\nwatching for him, seemed perilous, if not impossible.\\nIt is said that he floated down the whole length of\\nthe Ohio and of the Mississippi, a distance not less\\nprobably, counting the curvatures of the stream, than\\ntwo thousand miles, and finally found his way by sea\\nto Philadelphia, probably in some vessel which he\\nencountered near the coast. This is certainly one of\\nthe most extraordinary voyages which ever occurred.\\nIt was mid-summer, so that he could not sufler from\\ncold. Grapes often hung in rich clusters in the for-\\nests, which lined the river banks, and various kinds of\\nnutritious berries were easily gathered to satisfy\\nhunger.\\nAs these men never went into the forest without\\nthe rifle and a supply of ammunition, and as they\\nnever lost a bullet by an inaccurate shot, it is not\\nprobable that our adventurer suffered from hunger.\\nBut the incidents of such a voyage must have been\\nso wonderful, that it is greatly to be regretted that\\nwe have no record of them.\\nThe apprehensions of Lord Dunmore, respecting\\nthe conspiracy of the Indians, proved to have been\\nwell founded. Though Boone, with his great sagac ty,", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "112 DANIEL BOONE.\\nled his little band by safe paths back to the set-\\ntlements; a very fierce warfare immediately blazed\\nforth all along the Virginia frontier. This conflict\\nwith the Indians, very brief and very bloody, is usu-\\nally called Lord Dunmore s war. The white men\\nhave told the story, and they admit that the war\\narose in consequence of cold-blooded murders com-\\nmitted upon inoffensive Indians in the region of the\\nupper Ohio.\\nOne of the provocatives to this war was the assas-\\nsination by fiend-like white men of the whole family\\nof the renowned Indian chief, Logan, in the vicinity\\nof the city of Wheeling. Logan had been the friend\\nof the white man. But exasperated by these outrages,\\nhe seized his tomahawk breathing only vengeance.\\nGeneral Gibson was sent to one of the Shawanese\\ntowns to confer with Logan and to detach him frorn\\nthe conspiracy against the whites. It was on this\\noccasion that Logan made that celebrated speech\\nwhose pathetic eloquence will ever move the human\\nheart\\nI appeal to any white man to say if ever he\\nentered Logan s cabin hungry, and I gave him not\\nmeat if ever he came cold or naked and I gave him\\nnot clothing. During the course of the last long and\\nbloody war, Logan remained in his tent, an advocate\\nof peace. Nay, such was my love for the wliites,", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "INDIAN WARFARE. II3\\nthat those of my own country pointed at me and said,\\nLogan is the friend of white men. I had even\\nthought to live with you, but for the injuries of one\\nman. Colonel Cresap, the last spring, in cool blood\\nand unprovoked, cut off all the relatives of Logan, not\\nsparing even my women and children. There runs\\nnot a drop of my blood in the veins of any human\\ncreature. This called on me for revenge. I have\\nkilled many. I have fully glutted my vengeance.\\nFor my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace.\\nYet do not harbor the thought that mine is the joy\\nof fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on\\nhis heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for\\nLogan.\\nThis war, though it lasted but a few months, was\\nvery sanguinary. Every exposed point on the ex-\\ntensive Virginia frontier was assailed. Cabins were\\nburned, harvests were trampled down, cattle driven\\noff, and men, women, and children either butchered\\nor carried into captivity more dreadful than death.\\nThe peril was so dreadful that the most extraordinary\\nefforts on the part of the Virginian Government were\\nrequisite to meet it. An army of three thousand men\\nwas raised in the utmost haste. This force was in\\ntwo divisions. One of eleven hundred men rendez-\\nvoused in what is now Green Briar county, and marched\\ndown the valley of the Great Kanawha, to its en*", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "114 DANIEL BOONE.\\ntrance into the Ohio, at a place now named Point\\nPleasant.\\nLord Dunmore with the remaining nineteen hundred\\ncrossed the Cumberland mountains to Wheeling, and\\nthence descended the Ohio in boats, to form a junction\\nwith the other party at the mouth of the Great\\nKanawha. Thence united, they were to march across\\nthe country about forty miles due west, to the valley\\nof the Scioto. The banks of this lovely stream were\\nlined with Indian villages, in a high state of prosperity.\\nCorn-fields waved luxuriantly around their humble\\ndwellings. They were living at peace with each other,\\nand relied far more upon the produce of the soil than\\nupon the chase for their support.\\nIt was the plan of Lord Dunmore to sweep this\\nwhole region with utter desolation, and entirely to\\nexterminate the Indians. But the savages did not\\nawait his arrival in their own homes. Many of them\\nhad obtained guns and ammunition from the French\\nin Canada, with whom they lived on friendly terms.\\nIn a well-ordered army for Indian warfare, whose\\nnumbers cannot now with certainty be known, they\\ncrossed the Ohio, below the mouth of the Great\\nKanawha, and marching through the forest, in the rear\\nof the hills, fell by surprise very impetuously upon the\\nrear of the encampment at Point Pleasant. The Indians\\nseemed to be fully aware that their only safety was", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "INDIAN WARFARE. II J\\nin the energies of desperation. One of the most bloody\\nbattles was then fought, which ever occurred in Indian\\nwarfare. Though the Virginians with far more potent\\nweapons repelled their assailants, they paid dearly\\nfor their victory. Two hundred and fifteen of the\\nVirginians fell dead or severely wounded beneath the\\nbullets or arrows of their foes. The loss which the\\nsavages incurred could never be ascertained with accu-\\nracy. It was generally believed that several hundred\\nof their warriors were struck down on that bloody-\\nfield.\\nThe whites, accustomed to Indian warfare and\\nskilled in the use of the rifle, scarcely fired a shot\\nwhich did not reach its mark. In the cautious war-\\nfare between the tribes, fighting with arrows from\\nbehind trees, the loss of fifteen or twenty warriors\\nwas deemed a great calamity. Now, to find hun-\\ndreds of their braves weltering in blood, was awful\\nbeyond precedent, and gave them new ideas of the\\nprowess of the white man. In this conflict the In-\\ndians manifested a very considerable degree of mili-\\ntary ability. Having constructed a breastwork of\\nlogs, behind which they could retreat in case of a re-\\npulse, they formed in a long line extending across\\nthe point from the Kanawha to the Ohio. Then\\nthey advanced in the impetuous attack through the\\nforest, protected by logs, and stumps, and trees. Had", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "Il6 DANIEL BOONE.\\nthey succeeded in their assault, thtre would have\\nbeen no possible escape for the Virginian troops,\\nThey must have been annihilated.\\nThe Indians had assembled on that field nearly all\\nthe warriors of four powerful tribes the Shawnee,,\\nDelaware, Mingo and Wyandotts. After the repulse,\\npanic-stricken, they fled through the wilderness, un-\\nable to make any other stand against their foes.\\nLord Dunmore, with his triumphant army flushed\\nwith victory and maddened by its serious loss,\\nmarched rapidly down the left bank of the Ohio,\\nand then crossed into the valley of the Scioto to\\nsweep it with flame. We have no account of the de-\\ntails of this cruel expedition, but the following graphic\\ndescription of a similar excursion into the land be-\\nlonging to the Cherokees, will give one a vivid ideu\\nof the nature of these conflicts.\\nThe celebrated Francis Marion, who was an officer\\nin the campaign, and an eye-witness of the scenes\\nwhich he describes, gives the following narrative of\\nthe events which ensued\\nNow commenced a scene of devastation scarcely\\nparalleled in the annals of this continent. For thirty\\ndays the army employed themselves in burning and\\nravaging the settlements of the broken-spirited In-\\ndians. No less than fourteen of their towns were\\nlaid in ashes; their granaries were yielded to tli^", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "INDIAN WARFARE. II 7\\nflames, their corn-fields ravaged, while the miserable\\nfugitives, flying from the sword, took refuge with\\ntheir starving families among the mountains. As the\\nlands were rich and the season had been favorable,\\nthe corn was bending under the double weight of\\nlusty roasting ears and pods and clustering beans.\\nThe furrows seemed to rejoice under their precious\\nloads. The fields stood thick with bread. We en-\\ncamped the first night in the woods near the fields\\nwhere the whole army feasted on the young corn,\\nwhich, with fat venison, made a most delicious treat\\nThe next morning, by order of Col. Grant, we pro-\\nceeded to burn down the Indian cabins.\\nSome of our men seemed to enjoy this cruel work,\\nlaughing very heartily at the curling flames as they\\nmounted loud crackling over the tops of the huts.\\nBut to me it appeared a shocking sight. Poor crea-\\ntures!* thought I, *we surely need not grudge you\\nsuch miserable habitations. But when we came ac-\\ncording to orders to cut down the fields of corn, I\\ncould scarcely refrain from tears for who could see\\nthe stalks that stood so stately, with broad green\\nleaves and gaily tasseled shocks, filled with the sweet\\nmilky flour, the staff of life, ^who, I say, could see\\nwithout grief these sacred plants sinking under our\\nswords with all their precious load, to wither and rot\\nuntasted in the fields.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "Il8 DANIEL BOONE.\\nI saw everywhere around the footsteps of little\\nIndian children, where they had lately played under\\nshelter of the rustling corn. No doubt they had often\\nlooked up with joy to the swelling shocks, and were\\ngladdened when they thought of the abundant cakes\\nfor the coming winter. When we are gone/ thought\\nI, they will return, and peeping through the weeds,\\nwith tearful eyes, will mark the ghastly ruin poured\\nover their homes and the happy fields where they\\nhad so often played.\\nSuch was life among the comparatively intelligent\\ntribes in the beautiful and fertile valley of the Scioto.\\nSuch \u00c2\u00bbvas the scene of devastation, or of punishing\\nthe Indians, as it was called, upon which Lord Dun-\\nmore s army entered, intending to sweep the valley\\nwith fire and sword from its opening at the Ohio to\\nIts head waters leagues away in the North.\\nIn this campaign the Indians, while with much\\nsagacity they combined their main force to encounter\\nthe army under Lord Dunmore, detached separate\\nbands of picked warriors to assail the settlements on\\nthe frontier at every exposed point. These bands of\\npainted savages, emerging from the solitudes of the\\nforests at midnight, would fall with hideous yells upon\\nthe lone cabin of the settler, or upon a little cluster of\\nlog huts, and in a few hours nothing wo Mid be left\\nbut smouldering ruins and gory corpses.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "INDIAN WARFARE. 1 19\\nTo Daniel Boone, who had manifested wonderful\\nskill in baffling all the stratagems of Indian warfare,\\nwas assigned the difficult and infinitely important task\\nof protecting these frontiers. Three garrisons were\\nplaced under his command, o\\\\ er which he exercised\\nsupreme control. He located them at the most avail-\\nable points noiselessly passed from one to the other\\nto see that they were fortified according to the most\\napproved principles of military engineering then\\nknown in the forest. His scouts were everywhere, to\\ngive prompt notice of any approach of hostile bands.\\nThus this quiet, silent man, with great efficiency, ful-\\nfilled his mission to universal satisfaction. Without\\nseeking fame, without thinking even of such a reward\\nfor his services, his sagacity and his virtues were rap-\\nidly giving him a very enviable reputation through-\\nout all those regions.\\nThe discomfited Indians had become thoroughly\\ndisheartened, and sent couriers to Lord Dunmore im-\\nploring peace. Comstock, their chief, seems to have\\nbeen a man not only of strong native powers of mind,\\nbut of unusual intelligence. With quite a brilliant\\nretinue of his warriors, he met Lord Dunmore in\\ncouncil at a point in the valley of the Scioto, about\\nfour miles south of the present city of Circleville.\\nComstock himself opened the deliberations with a\\nspeech of great dignity and argumentative power. In", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "120 DANIEL BOONE.\\na loud voice, which was heard, as he intended, by all\\nin the camp, he portrayed the former prosperous con-\\ndition of the Indian tribes, powerful in numbers and\\nabounding in wealth, in the enjoyment of their rich\\ncorn-fields, and their forests filled with game. With\\nthis he contrasted very forcibly their present wretched\\ncondition, with diminished numbers, and with the\\nloss of their hunting grounds. He reproached the\\nwhites with the violation of their treaty obligations,\\nand declared that the Indians had been forbearing in\\nthe extreme under the wrongs which had been in-\\nflicted upon them.\\nWe know, said he, perfectly well, our weakness\\nwhen compared with the English. The Indians de-\\nsire only justice. The war was not sought by us, but\\nwas forced upon us. It was commened by the whites.\\nWe should have merited the contempt of every white\\nman could we have tamely submitted to the murders\\nwhich have been inflicted upon our unoffending people\\nat the hands of the white men.\\nThe power was with Lord Dunmore. In the treaty\\nof peace he exacted terms which, though verj hard for\\nthe Indians, were perhaps not more than he had a\\nright to require. The Indians surrendered four of\\ntheir principal warriors as hostages for the faithful\\nobservance of the treaty. They relinquished all\\nclaims whatevei to the vast hunting grounds whicl)", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "INDIAN WARFARE. 121\\ntheir bands from time immemorial had ranged south\\nof the Ohio river. This was an immense concession.\\nLord Danmore returned across the mountains well\\nsatisfied with his campaign, though his soldiers were\\nexcited almost to mutiny in not being permitted to\\nwreak their vengeance upon the unhappy savages.\\nAnd here let it be remarked, that deeply wronged\\nas these Indians unquestionably were, there was not\\na little excuse for the exasperation of the whites.\\nFiends incarnate could not have invented more\\nterrible tortures than they often inflicted upon their\\ncaptives. We have no heart to describe these scenes.\\nThey are too awful to be contemplated. In view of\\nthe horrid barbarity thus practised, it is not strange\\nthat the English should have wished to shoot down\\nthe whole race, men, women, and children, as they\\nwould exterminate wolves or bears.\\nThis campaign being thus successfully terminated,\\nDaniel Boone returned to his humble cabin on the\\nClinch River. Here he had a small and fertile farm,\\nwhich his energetic family had successfully cultivated\\nduring the summer, and he spent the winter months\\nin his favorite occupation of hunting in the forests\\naround. His thoughtful mind, during these long and\\nsolitary rambles, was undoubtedly occupied with plans\\nfor the future. Emigration to his beautiful Kentucky\\nwas still his engrossing thought.\\n11", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "122 DANIEL BOONE.\\nIt is not wonderful that a man of such fearless\\ntemperament, and a natural turn of mind so poetic\\nand imaginative, should have been charmed beyond\\nexpression by a realm whose attractions he had so\\nfully experienced. That the glowing descriptions of\\nBoone and Finley were not exaggerated, is manifest\\nfrom the equally rapturous account of others who\\nnow began to explore this favored land. Imlay writes\\nof that region\\nEverything here assumes a dignity and splendor\\nI have never seen in any other part of the world. You\\nascend a considerable distance from the shores of the\\nOhio, and when you would suppose you had arrived\\nat the summit of a mountain, you find yourself upon\\nan extensive level. Here an eternal verdure reigns,\\nand the brilliant sun of latitude 39 degrees, piercing\\nthrough the azure heavens, produces in this prolific\\nsoil an early maturity which is truly astonishing.\\nFlowers full and perfect, as if they had been cultivated\\nby the hand of a florist, with all their captivating\\nodors, and with all the variegated charms which color\\nand nature can produce, here in the lap of elegance\\nand beauty, decorate the smiling groves. Soft zephyrs\\ngently breathe on sweets, and the inhaled air gives a\\nglow of health and vigor that seems to ravish the\\nintoxicated senses.\\nThe Virginian government now resolved to pour a", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "INDIAN WARFARE. 12 J\\ntide of emigration into these as yet unexplored realms,\\nsouth of the Ohio. Four hundred acres of land were\\noffered to every individual who would build a cabin,\\nclear a lot of land, and raise a crop of corn. This\\nwas called a settlement right It was not stated how\\nlarge the clearing should be, or how extensive the\\ncorn-field. Several settlements were thus begun in\\nKentucky, when there was a new and extraordinary\\nmovement which attracted universal attention.\\nA very remarkable man, named Richard Hender-\\nson, appeared in North Carolina. Emerging from the\\nhumblest walks of life, and unable even to read until\\nhe had obtained maturity, he developed powers of\\nconversational eloquence and administrative ability of\\nthe highest order.\\nThe Cherokee Indians claimed the whole country\\nbounded by the Kentucky, the Ohio, and the Cumber-\\nland rivers, and we know not how much more territory\\nextending indefinitely to the South and West. Colonel\\nHenderson formed an association called the Transyl-\\nvania Company. Making a secret journey to the\\nCherokee country, he met twelve hundred chiefs in\\ncouncil, and purchased of them the whole territory,\\nequal to some European kingdoms, bounded by the\\nabove mentioned rivers. For this realm he paid the\\ninsignificant sum of ten wagon loads of cheap goods,\\nwith a few fire-arms and some spirituous liquors.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "124 DANIEL BOONE.\\nMr. Henderson, to whom the rest of the company\\nseemed to have delegated all their powers, now\\nassumed the position of proprietor, governor, and\\nlegislator of his magnificent domain, which he called\\nTransylvania. It seems that Boone accompanied\\nColonel Henderson to the council of the Cherokee\\nchieftains which was held at Wataga, the southern\\nbranch of the Holston River. Boone had explored\\nnearly the whole of this region, and it was upon his\\ntestimony that the company relied in endeavoring to\\npurchase these rich and fertile lands. Indeed, as we\\nhave before intimated, it has been said that Boone in\\nhis wonderful and perilous explorations was the\\nagent of this secret company.\\nNo treaties with the Indians were sure of geneial\\nacquiescence. There were always discontented chief-\\ntains there were almost always conflicting claims of\\nhostile tribes there were always wandering tribes of\\nhunters and of warriors, who, exasperated by the\\ntreatment which they had received from vagabond\\nwhite men, were ever ready to wreak their vengeance\\nupon any band of emigrants they might encounter.\\nColonel Henderson s treaty was made in the\\nmonth of March, 1775. With characteristic vigor, he\\nimmediately made preparations for the settlement of\\nthe kingdom of which he was the proud monarch.\\nThe first thing to be done was to mark out a feasible\\npath throi\\\\gh which emigrants might pass, without", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "INDIAN WARFARE. 125\\nlosing their way, over the mountains and through the\\nwilderness, to the heart of this new Eden. Of all the\\nmen in the world, Daniel Boone was the one to map\\nout this route of five hundred miles. He took with\\nhim a company of road-makers, and in a few months\\nopened a path which could be traversed by pack-\\nhorses, and even by wagons to a place called Boones-\\nville on the Kentucky river, within about thirty miles\\nof the present site of Lexington.\\nThe Indian hunters and warriors, notwithstanding\\nthe treaties into which the chieftains of the North and\\nthe South had entered, watched the construction of this\\nroad with great solicitude. They knew full well that\\nit would ere long secure their expulsion from their\\nancient hunting grounds. Though no general warfare\\nwas organized by the tribes, it was necessary to be\\nconstantly on the watch against lawless bands, who\\nwere determined to harass the pioneers in every\\npossible way. In the following letter Boone com-\\nmunicated to Colonel Henderson the hostility which\\nthey had, perhaps unexpectedly, encountered. It was\\ndated the first of April, and was sent back by a\\ncourier through the woods\\nDear Colonel,\\nAfter my compliments to you, I shall acquaint\\nyou with my misfortunes. On March the Twenty", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "126 DANIEL BOONE.\\nfifth, a party of Indians fired on my company about\\nhalf an hour before day, and killed Mr. Twitty and\\nhis negro, and wounded Mr. Walker very deeply but\\nJ hope he will recover. On March the Twenty-eighth,\\nas we were hunting for provisions, we found Samuel\\nTale s son who gave us an account that the Indians\\nfired on their camp on the twenty-seventh day. My\\nbrother and I went down and found two men killed\\nand scalped, Thomas McDowell and Jeremiah Mc-\\nPeters. I have sent a man down to all the lower\\ncompanies, in order to gather them all to the mouth\\nof the Otter Creek. My advice to you, sir, is to come\\nor send as soon as possible. Your company is desired\\ngreatly, for the people are very uneasy, but are\\nwilling to stay and venture their lives with you. And\\nnow is the time to frustrate their (the Indians) inten-\\ntions, and keep the country while we are in it. If we\\ngive way to them now, it will ever be the case. This\\nday we start from the battle ground to the mouth of\\nOtter Creek, where we shall immediately erect a fort,\\nwhich will be done before you can come or send.\\nThen we can send ten men to meet you, if you send\\nfor them.\\nI am, Sir, your most obedient servant,\\nDaniel Boone.\\nBoone immediately commenced upon the left bank\\nof the Kentucky river, which here ran in a westerly", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "INDIAN WARFARE. 12/\\ndirection, the erection of a fort. Their position was\\nfull of peril, for the road-makers were but few in\\nnumber, and Indian warriors to the number of many\\nhundreds might at any time encircle them. Many of\\nthese Indians had also obtained muskets from the\\nFrench in Canada, and had become practiced marks^\\nmen. Nearly three months were busily occupied\\nin the construction of this important fort. Fortunately\\nwe have a minute description of its structure, and a\\nsketch of its appearance, either from the pencil of\\nColonel Henderson, or of some one in his employ.\\nThe fort or fortress consisted of a series of strong\\nlog huts, enclosing a large interior or square. The\\nparallelogram was about two hundred and sixty feet\\nin length and one hundred and fifty in breadth. These\\ncabins, built of logs, were bullet-proof. The intervals\\nbetween them were filled with stout pieces of timber,\\nabout twelve feet high, planted firmly in the ground,\\nin close contact with each other, and sharpened at the\\ntop. The fort was built close to the river, with one\\nof its angles almost overhanging the water, so that an\\nabundant supply could be obtained without peril\\nEach of the corner houses projected a little, so that\\nfrom the port-holes any Indian could be shot who\\nshould approach the walls with ladder or hatchet\\nThis really artistic structure was not completed until\\nthe fourteenth day Oi June. The Indians from a di9", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "f28 DANIEL BOONE.\\ntance watched its progress with dismay. They made\\none attack, but were easily repelled, though they\\nsucceeded in shooting one of the emigrants.\\nDaniel Boone contemplated the fortress on its com-\\npletion with much satisfaction. He was fully assured\\nthat behind its walls and palisades bold hearts, with\\nan ample supply of ammunition, could repel any as-\\nsaults which the Indians were capable of making. He\\nnow resolved immediately to return to Clinch river,\\nand bring his family out to share with him his new\\nand attractive home.\\n-y^^^\\n^ms", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\nSufferings of the Pioneers,\\nEmigration to Boonesborough New Perils. Transylvania Com*\\npany. Beneficence of its Laws. Interesting Incident. Infa*\\nmous conduct of Great Britain. Attack on the Fort. Beia\u00c2\u00ab\\nforcements. Simon Kenton and his Sufferings. Mrs. Harvey.\\nThe fortress at Boonesborough consisted of ten\\nstrong log huts arranged in a quadrangular form, en-\\nclosing an area of about one-third of an acre. The\\nintervals, as before stated, between the huts, were\\nfilled with strong palisades of timber, which, like the\\nhuts themselves, were bullet-proof The outer sides\\nof th^ cabins, together with the palisades, formed the\\nsides of the fort exposed to the foe. Each of these\\ncabins was about twenty feet in length and twelve or\\nfifteen in breadth. There were two entrance gates\\nopposite each other, made of thick slabs of timber,\\nand hung on wooden hinges. The forest, which was\\nquite dense, had been cut away to such a distance as\\nto expose an assailing party to the bullets of the gar-\\nrison. As at that time the Indians were armed mainly\\nwith bows and arrows, a few men fully supplied with\\nammunition within the fort could bid defiance to\\n(129)", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "130 DANIEL BOONE.\\nalmost any number of savages. And subsequently,\\nas the Indians obtained fire-arms, they could not hope\\nto capture the fort without a long siege, or by assail-\\ning it with a vastly overwhelming superiority of\\nnumbers. The accompanying illustration will give\\nthe reader a very correct idea of this renowned for-\\ntress of logs, which was regarded as the Gibraltar of\\nIndian warfare.\\nHaving finished this fort Daniel Boone, leaving a\\nsufficient garrison for its security, set out for his home\\non the Clinch river to bring his wife and family to the\\nbeautiful land he so long had coveted for their resi-\\ndence. It seems that his wife and daughters were\\neager to follow their father to the banks of the Ken-\\ntucky, whose charms he had so glowingly described\\nto them. Several other families were also induced to\\njoin the party of emigration. They could dwell to-\\ngether in a very social community and in perfect\\nsafety in the spacious cabins within the fortress. The\\nriver would furnish them with an unfailing supply of\\nwater. The hunters, with their rifles, could supply\\nthem with game, and with those rifles could protect\\nthemselves while laboring in the fields, which with\\nthe axe they had laid open to the sun around the fort.\\nThe hunters and the farmers at night returning within\\nthe enclosure, felt perfectly safe from all assaults.\\nDaniel Boone commenced his journey with his", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "SUFFERINGS OF THE PIONEERS. 131\\nWife and children, and others who joined them, back to\\nBoonesborough in high spirits. It was a long journey\\nof several hundred miles, and to many persons it would\\nseem a journey fraught with great peril, for they were in\\ndanger almost every mile of the way, of encountering\\nhostile Indians. But Boone, accustomed to traversing\\nthe wilderness, and accompanied by well armed men,\\nfelt no more apprehensions of danger than the father\\nof a family would at the present day in traveling by\\ncars from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania.\\nIt was beautiful autumnal weather when the party of\\npioneers commenced its adventurous tour through the\\nwilderness, to find a new home five hundred miles be-\\nyond even the remotest frontiers of civilization. There\\nwere three families besides that of Boone, and\\nnumbered in all twenty-six men, four women, and\\nfour or five boys and girls of various ages. Daniel\\nBoone was the happy leader of this heroic little band.\\nIn due time they all arrived safely at Boonesborough\\nwithout having encountered, as Boone writes, any\\nother difficulties than such as are common to this\\npassage. As they approached the fort, Boone and\\nhis family, for some unexplained reason, pressed\\nforward, and entered the fortress a few days in advance\\nof the rest of the party. Perhaps Boone himself had\\na little pride to have it said, that Mrs. Boone and her\\ndaughter were the first of her color and sex that", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "iji DANIEL BOONE.\\never stood upon the banks of the wild and beautiful\\nKentucky.\\nA few days after their arrival, the emigrants had a\\nvery solemn admonitioA of the peril which surrounded\\nthem, and of the necessity of constant vigilance to\\nguard against a treacherous and sleepless foe. One of\\ntheir number who had sauntered but a short distance\\nfrom the fort, lured by the combined beauty of the\\nfield, the forest and the river, was shot by a prowling\\nIndian, who, raising the war-whoop of exultation and\\ndefiance, immediately disappeared in the depths of\\nthe wilderness.\\nColonel Henderson and his partners, anxious to\\npromote the settlement of the country, by organising\\nparties of emigration, were busy in making known\\nthrough the settlements the absolute security of the\\nfort at Boonesborough, and the wonderful attractions\\nof the region, in soil, climate, and abounding game.\\nHenderson himself soon started with a large party,\\nforty of whom were well armed. A number of pack\\nhorses conveyed the luggage of the emigrants.\\nFollowing the very imperfect road that Boone with\\nmuch skill had engineered, which was quite tolerable\\nfor pack-horses in single file, they reached Booncs\u00c2\u00ab\\nborough early in the following spring.\\nThe Transylvania Company was in the full flush of\\nBua:essful experiment Small parties of emigrants", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "SUFFERINGS OF THE PIONEERS. 133\\nwere constantly arriving. Boonesboroiigh was the\\ncapital of the colony. Various small settlements\\nwere settled in its vicinity. Colonel Henderson\\nopened a land office there, and over half a million of\\nacres were entered, by settlers or speculators. These\\nmen did not purchase the lands outright, but bound\\nthemselves to pay a small but perpetual rent. The\\ntitles, which they supposed to be perfectly good, were\\ngiven in the name of the proprietors of the Colony\\nof Transylvania, in America.\\nSoon four settlements were organised called\\nBoonesborough, Harrodsburg, Boiling Spring, and\\nSt. Asaph. Colonel Henderson, on the twenty-third\\nof May, I775 ^s president or rather sovereign of this\\nextraordinary realm, summoned a legislature consist-\\ning of delegates from this handful of pioneers, to meet\\nat his capital, Boonesborough. Henderson presided,\\nDaniel and his brother Squire were delegates from\\nBoonesborough. A clergyman, the Reveiend John\\nLeythe, opened the session with prayer. Colonel\\nHenderson made a remarkable and admirable speech.\\nThis extraordinary legislature represented only a\\nconstituency of one hundred and fifty souls. But the\\nColonel presented to them very clearly the true re-\\npublican principle of government. He declared that\\nthe only legitimate source of political power is to be\\nfound in the will of the people, and added\\n12", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "134 DANIEL BOONE.\\nIf any doubts remain among you with respect to\\nthe force and efficiency of whatever laws you now or\\nhereafter make, be pleased to consider that all power\\nis originally in the people. Make it their interest,\\ntherefore, by impartial and beneficent laws, and you\\nmay be sure of their inclination to see them enforced.\\nRumors of these extraordinary proceedings reached\\nthe ears of Lord Dunmore. He considered the whole\\nregion of Kentucky as included in the original grant\\nof Virginia, and that the Government of Virginia alone\\nhad the right to extinguish the Indian title to any of\\nthose lands. He therefore issued a proclamation, de-\\nnouncing in the severest terms the unlawful pro-\\nceedings of one Richard Henderson and other disor-\\nderly persons, his associates. The legislature\\ncontinued in session but three days, and honored itself\\ngreatly by its energetic action, and by the character of\\nthe laws which it inaugurated. One bill was intro-\\nduced for preserving game another for improving\\nthe breed of their horses and it is worthy of especial\\nrecord that a law was passed prohibiting profane\\nswearing and Sabbath breaking.\\nThe moral sense of these bold pioneers was shocked\\n^t the desecration of the Creator s name among their\\nsublime solitudes.\\nThe controversy between the Transylvania Com-\\npany and the Government of Virginia was short but", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "SUFFERINGS JF THE PIONEERS. 1 35\\nvery sharp. Virginia could then very easily send an\\narmy of several thousand men to exterminate the\\nKentucky colony. A compromise was the result.\\nThe title of Henderson was declared null and void.\\nBut he received in compensation a grant of land on\\nthe Ohio, about twelve miles square, below the mouth\\nof Green River. Virginia assumed that the Indian\\ntitle was entirely extinguished, and the region called\\nTransylvania now belonged without encumbrance to\\nthe Old Dominion.\\nStill the tide of emigration continued to flow into\\nthis beautiful region. Among others came the family\\nof Colonel Calloway, consisting of his wife and two\\ndaughters. For a long time no Indians had been seen\\nin the vicinity of Boonesborough. No one seemed to\\napprehend the least danger from them, and the people\\nin the fort wandered about as freely as if no foe had\\never excited their fears. An accident occurred which\\nsent a tremor of dismay through the whole colony, and\\nwhich we will describe as related to the intelligent\\nhistorian, Peck, from the lips of one of the parties,\\nwho experienced all the terrors of the scene\\nOn the fourteenth of July, 1776, Betsey Calloway,\\nher sister Frances, and Jemima Boone, a daughter of\\nDaniel Boone, the two last about fourteen years of\\nage, carelessly crossed the river opposite Boones-\\nborough in a canoe, at a late hour in the afteroooa", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "136 DANIEL BOONE.\\nThe trees and shrubs on the opposite bank were thick\\nand came down to the water s edge. The girls, uncon-\\nscious of danger, were playing and splashing the\\nwater with their paddles, until the canoe floating with\\nthe current, drifted near the shore. Five stout Indians\\nlay there concealed, one of whom, noiseless and\\nstealthy as the serpent, crawled down the bank until\\nhe reached the rope that hung from the bow, turned\\nits course up the stream, and in a direction to be\\nhidden from the view of the fort. The loud shrieks\\nof the captured girls were heard, but too late for their\\nrescue.\\nThe canoe, their only means of crossing, was on\\nthe opposite shore, and none dared to risk the chance of\\nswimming the river, under the impression that a large\\nbody of savages was concealed in the woods. Boone\\nand Calloway were both absent, and night came on\\nbefore arrangements could be made for their pursuit.\\nNext morning by daylight we were on the track, and\\nfound they had prevented our following them by\\nwalking some distance apart through the thickest\\ncanes they could find. We observed their course, and\\non which side they had left their sign and traveled\\nupwards of thirty miles. We then imagined they\\nwould be less cautious in traveling, and made a turn\\nin order to cross their trace, and had gone but a few\\nmiles when we found their tracks in a buffalo patlu", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "SUFFERINGS OF THE PIONEERS. 137\\nWe pursued and overtook them on going about ten\\nmiles, as they were kindhng a fire to cook.\\nOur study had been more to get the prisoners\\nwithout giving the Indians time to murder them, aftet\\nthey discovered us, than to kill them. We discovered\\neach other nearly at the same time. Four of us fired,\\nand all of us rushed on them, which prevented them\\nfrom carrying away anything, except one shot-gun\\nwithout ammunition. Mr. Boone and myself had a\\npretty fair shoot, just as they began to move off. I\\nam well convinced I shot one through, and the one he\\nshot dropped his gun. Mine had none. The place\\nwas very thick with canes, and being so much elated\\non recovering the three broken-hearted girls, prevent-\\ned our making further search. We sent them off with-\\nout their mocassins, and not one of them with so much\\nas a knife or a tomahawk.\\nThe Indians seemed to awake increasingly to the\\nconsciousness that the empire of the white man in\\ntheir country could only exist upon the ruins of their\\nown. They divided themselves into several parties,\\nmaking incessant attacks upon the forts, and prowling\\naround to shoot every white man who could be found\\nwithin reach of their bullets. They avoided all open\\nwarfare, and fought only when they could spring from\\nan ambush, or when protected by a stump, a rock, or\\na tree. An Indian would conceal himself in the night", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "138 DANIEL BOONK\\nbehind a stump, shoot the first one ^ho emerged from\\nthe fort in the morning, and then with a yell disappear\\nin the recesses of the forest. The cattle could scarcely\\nappear for an hour to graze beyond the protection of\\nthe fort, without danger of being struck down by the\\nbullet of an unseen foe.\\nThe war of the American Revolution was just\\ncommencing. Dreadfully it added to the perils of\\nthese distant emigrants. The British Government,\\nwith infamy which can never be effaced from her\\nrecords, called in to her aid the tomahawk and the\\nscalping knife of the savage. The Indian alone in\\nhis wild and merciless barbarity, was terrible enough.\\nBut when he appeared as the ally of a powerful\\nnation, guided in his operations by the wisdom of her\\nofficers, and well provided with guns, powder, and\\nbullets from inexhaustible resources, the settler had\\nindeed reason to tremble. The winter of 1776 and\\n1777 was gloomy beyond expression. The Indians\\nwere hourly becoming more bold. Their predatory\\nbands were wandering in all directions, and almost\\nevery day came fraught with tidings of outrage or\\nmassacre.\\nThe whole military force of the colony was but\\nabout one hundred men. Three hundred of the\\npioneers, dismayed by the cloud of menace, every\\nhout growing blacker, had returned across the moun*", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "SUFPERINGS OF THE PIONEERS. 1 39\\nlains. There were but twenty-two armed men left\\nin the fort at Boonesborough. The dismal winter\\npassed slowly away, and the spring opened replete\\nwith nature s bloom and beauty, but darkened by the\\ndepravity of man. On the fifteenth of April, a band\\nof a hundred howling Indians appeared in the forest\\nbefore Boonesborough. With far more than their\\nordinary audacity, they rushed from their covert upon\\nthe fort. Had they been acquainted with the use ol\\nscaling ladders, by attacking at different points, they\\nmight easily, by their superior numbers, have carried\\nthe place by storm.\\nBut fortunately the savages had but little military\\nscience, and when once repulsed, would usually re-\\ntreat in dismay. The garrison, behind their impene-\\ntrable logs, took deliberate aim, and every bullet\\nkilled or wounded some Indian warrior. The sav-\\nages fought with great bravery, and succeeded in\\nkilling one man in the garrison. Dismayed by the\\nslaughter which they were encountering, they fled,\\ntaking their dead and wounded with them. But so\\nfully were they conscious, that would they retain\\ntheir own supremacy in the wilderness, they must ex-\\nterminate the white man, that their retreat was only\\nin preparation for a return with accumulated numbers*\\nAn intelligent historian writes\\nDaniel Boone appears before us in these exciting", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "140 DANIEL BOONE.\\ntimes the central figure towering like a colossus amid\\nthat hardy band of pioneers who opposed their\\nbreasts to the shock of the struggle which gave a\\nterrible significance and a crimson hue to the history\\nof the old dark and bloody ground.\\nThe Indians were scattered everywhere in desper-\\nate bands. Forty men were sent from North Caro-\\nlina and a hundred from Virginia, under Colonel\\nBowman, to strengthen the feeble settlements. The\\nlatter party arrived on the twentieth of August, 1776.\\nThere were at that time skirmishes with the Indians\\nalmost every day. The pioneers within their log-\\nhouses, or behind their palissades, generally repelled\\nthese assaults with but little loss to themselves and\\nnot often inflicting severe injury to the wary savages.\\nIn the midst of these constant conflicts and dangers,\\nthe winter months passed drearily away. Boones-\\nborough was constantly menaced and frequently\\nattacked. In a diary kept within the fort we find\\nMay 2j. A large party of Indians attacked\\nBoonesborough fort. Kept a warm fire till eleven\\no clock at night. Began it next morning, and kept a\\nwarm fire till midnight. Attempting several times to\\nburn the fort. Three of our men were wounded, but\\nnot mortally.\\nMay 26. A party went out to hunt Indiana\\nOne wounded Squire Boone, and escaped.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "SUFFERINGS OF THE PIONEERS. I41\\nVery cruel warfare was now being waged by the\\nmajestic power of Great Britain to bring the revolted\\ncolonies back to subjection to their laws. As we\\nhave mentioned they called into requisition on their\\nside the merciless energies of the savage, openly de-\\nclaring to the world that they were justified in making\\nuse of whatever weapons God and nature might place\\nin their hands. From the strong British garrisons at\\nDetroit, Vincennes and Kaskaskia, the Indians were\\nabundantly supplied with rifles, powder and bullets,\\nand were offered liberal rewards for such prisoners,\\nand even scalps, as they might bring in.\\nThe danger which threatened these settlements in\\nKentucky was now such as might cause the stoutest\\nheart to quail. The savage had been adopted as an\\nally by the most wealthy and powerful nation upon\\nthe globe. His marauding bands were often guided\\nby the intelligence of British officers. Boone organ-\\nized what might be called a corps of explorers to go\\nout two and two, penetrating the wilderness with ex-\\ntreme caution, in all directions, to detect any indica-\\ntion of the approach of the Indians. One of these\\nexplorers, Simon Kenton, acting under the sagacious\\ncounsel of Colonel Boone, had obtained great and\\ndeserved celebrity as among the most heroic 01 the\\nremarkable men who laid the foundation of the State\\nof Kentucky. It would be difficult to find in any", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "142 DANIEL BOONE,\\npages of romance incidents of more wonderful adven-\\nture, or of more dreadful suffering, or stories of more\\nmiraculous escape, than were experienced by this\\nman. Several times he was taken captive by the\\nIndians, and though treated with great inhumanity,\\nsucceeded in making his escape. The -following inci-\\ndent in his life, occurring about this time, gives one a\\nvery vivid picture of the nature of this warfare with\\nthe Indians\\nColonel Bowman sent Simon Kenton with two\\nother men, Montgomery and Clark, on an exploring\\ntour. Approaching an Indian town very cautiously\\nin the night, on the north side of the Ohio river, they\\nfound a number of Indian horses in an enclosure. A\\nhorse in the wilderness was one of the most valuable\\nof prizes. They accordingly each mounted an animal,\\nand not daring to leave any behind, which would aid\\nthe Indians to pursue them, by hastily constructed\\nhalters they led the rest. The noise which the horses\\nmade awoke the Indians, and the whole village was\\nat once in a state of uproar. The mounted adven-\\nturers dashed through the woods and were soon be-\\nyond the reach of the shouts and the yells which they\\nleft behind them. They knew, however, full well that\\nthe swift-footed Indian warriors would be immediately\\non their trail. Without a moment s rest they rode all\\nnight, the next day and the next night, and on the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "SUFFERINGS OF THE PIONEERS. 143\\nmorning of the second day reached the banks of the\\nOhio river. The flood of that majestic stream flowed\\nbroad and deep before them, and its surface was\\nlashed into waves by a very boisterous wind. The\\nhorses could not swim across in such a gale, but theii\\ndesire to retain the invaluable animals was so o-reat\\nthat they resolved to wait upon the banks until sun-\\nset, when they expected the wind to abate. Having\\nbeen so well mounted and having such a start of the\\nIndians, they did not suppose it possible that their\\npursuers could overtake them before that time.\\nNight came, but with it an increase of the fury ot\\nthe gale, and the stream became utterly impassable.\\nEarly in the morning Kenton, who was separated\\nfrom his companions, observed three Indians and a\\nwhite man, well mounted, rapidly approaching. Rais-\\ning his rifle, he took steady aim at the breast oi the\\nforemost Indian, and pulled the trigger. The powder\\nflashed in the pan. Kenton took to his heels, but\\nwas soon overtaken and captured. The Indians\\nseemed greatly exasperated at the loss of their horses.\\nOne seized him by the hair and shook his head till\\nhis teeth rattled. The others scourged him severely\\nwith their ramrods over the head and face, exclaiming\\nat every blow, Steal Indian hoss, he)^\\nJust then Kenton saw Montgomery coming boldly\\nto his assistance. Instantly two Indian rifles were", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "144 DANIEL BOONE.\\ndischargc. d, and Montgomery fell dead His bloody\\nscalp was waved in the face of Kenton, with menaces\\nof a similar fate. Clark had sought safety in flight.\\nKenton was thrown upon the ground upon his back,\\nElis neck was fastened by a halter to a sapling his\\narms, extented to their full length, were pinioned to\\nthe earth by stakes his feet were fastened in a similar\\nmanner. A stout stick was passed across his breast,\\nand so attached to the earth that he could not move\\nhis body. All this was done in the most violent and\\ncruel manner, accompanied by frequent cuffs, and\\nblows, as the maddened Indians called him in the\\nbroken English which they had acquired, a tief, a\\nboss steal, a rascal, which expressions the Indians\\nhad learned to intersperse with English oaths.\\nIn this condition of suffering Kenton remained\\nthrough the day and through the night. The next\\nmorning the savages having collected their scattered\\nhorses, put Kenton upon a young colt, tied his hands\\nbehind him and his feet beneath the horse s belly, and\\nset out on their return. The country was rough and\\nKenton could not at all protect himself from the\\nbrambles through which they passed. Thus they rode\\nall day. When night came, their prisoner was bound\\nto the earth as before. The next day they reached\\nthe Indian village, which was called Chilicothe, on the\\nMiami river, forty or fifty miles west of the present", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "SUFFERINGS OF THE PIONEERS. 14$\\ncSiy of Chilicothe, Ohio. A courier was sent forward,\\nto inform the village of their arrival. Every man\u00c2\u00ab\\nwoman and child came running out, to view thtf\\nprisoner. One of their chiefs. Blackfish, approached\\nKenton with a strong hickory switch in his hand, alid\\naddressing him said,\\nYou have been stealing our horses, have you\\nYes, was the defiant reply.\\nDid Colonel Boone, inquired the chief, tell you\\nto steal our horses\\nNo, said Kenton, I did it of my own accord.**\\nBlackfish then with brawny arms so merc ilessly\\napplied the scourge to the bare head and shoulders of\\nhis prisoner, as to cause the blood to flow freely, and\\nto occasion the acutest pain.\\nIn the mean time the whole crowd of men, women\\nand children danced and hooted and clapped their\\nhands, assailing him with the choicest epithets of\\nIndian vituperation. With lou(d cries they demanded\\nthat he should be tied to the stake, that they might\\nall enjoy the pleasure of tormenting him. A stake\\nwas immediately planted in the ground, and he was\\nfirmly fastened to it. His entire clothing was torn\\nfrom him, mainly by the Indian women. The whole\\nparty then danced around him until midnight, yelling\\nin the most frantic manner, smiting him with theil\\nhjinds and lacerating his flesh with their switches.\\n18", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "146 DANIEL BOONE.\\nAt midnight they released him from the stake, and\\nallowed him some little repose, in preparation for their\\nprincipal amusement in the morning, of having their\\nprisoner run the gauntlet. Three hundred Indians of\\nall ages and both sexes were assembled for the savage\\nfestival. The Indians were ranged in two parallel\\nlines, about six feet apart, all armed with sticks, hickory\\nrods, whips, and other means of inflicting torture.\\nBetween these lines, for more than half a mile to the\\nvillage, the wretched prisoner was doomed to run for\\nhis life, exposed to such injury as his tormentors\\ncould inflict as he passed. If he succeeded in reaching\\nthe council-house alive, it would prove an asylum to\\nhim for the present.\\nAt a given signal, Kenton started in the perilous\\nrace exerting his utmost strength and activity, he\\npassed swiftly along the line, receiving numerous\\nblows, stripes, buffets, and wounds, until heapproached\\nthe town, near which he saw an Indian leisurely\\nawaiting his advance, with a drawn knife in his hand,\\nintent upon his death.\\nTo avoid him, he instantly broke through the line,\\nand made his rapid way towards the council-house,\\npursued by the promiscuous crowd, whooping and\\nyelling like infernal furies at his heels. Entering the\\ntown in advance of his pursuers, just as he supposed\\nthe council-house within his reach, an Indian was per-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "SUFFERINGS OF THE PIONEERS. I47\\nceived leisurely approaching him with his blanket\\nwrapped around him but suddenly he threw ofif the\\nblanket and sprung upon Kenton as he advanced.\\nExhausted with fatigue and wounds, he was thrown\\nto the ground, and in a moment he was beset with\\ncrowds, eager to inflict upon him the kick or blow\\nwhich had been avoided by breaking through the\\nline. Here beaten, kicked and scourged, until he was\\nnearly lifeless, he was left to die.\\nA few hours afterwards he was supplied with food\\nand water, and was suffered to recuperate for a few\\ndays, until he was enabled to attend at the council-\\nhouse, and receive the announcement of his final\\ndoom. It was here decided that he should be made\\na public sacrifice to the vengeance of the nation. The\\nIndian town of Wappatomica, upon the present site\\nof Zanesville, Ohio, was the appointed place of his\\nexecution. Being in a state of utter exhaustion his\\nescape was deemed impossible, and he was carelessly\\nguarded. In despair he attempted it. He was\\npromptly recaptured and punished by being taken to\\na neighboring creek where he was dragged through\\nmud and water, till life was nearly extinct. Still his\\nconstitutional vigor triumphed, and he revived.\\nWappatomica was a British trading post Here\\nMacdonald s Sketches", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "148 DANIEL BOONE.\\nKenton met an old comrade, Simon Girty, who had\\nbecome a renegade, had joined the Indians, and had\\nso adopted their dress and manners as hardly to be\\ndistinguished from his savage associates. Girty cau-\\ntiously endeavored to save the condemned prisoner.\\nHe represented to the band that it would be of great\\nadvantage to them to have possession of one so in-\\ntimately acquainted with all the white settlements and\\ntheir resources.\\nA respite was granted. Another council was held.\\nThe spirit of Indian revenge prevailed. Kenton was\\nagain doomed to death, to be preceded by the terri-\\nble ordeal of running the gauntlet.\\nBut a British officer, influenced by the persuasions\\nof the Indian chief Logan, the friend of the white\\nman, urged upon the Indian chiefs that the British\\nofficers at Detroit would regard the possession of\\nKenton, with the information he had at his command,\\nas a great acquisition, and that they would pay for\\nhim a ransom of at least one hundred dollars. They\\ntook him to Detroit the ransom was paid, and\\nKenton became the prisoner of the British officers^\\ninstead of the savage chieftains. Still he was a\\nprisoner, though treated with ordinary humanity, and\\nwas allowed the liberty of the town.\\nThere were two other American captives there,\\nCaptain Nathan Bui lit and Jesse Coffer. Escape", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "SUFFERINGS OF THE PIONEERS. I49\\nseemed impossible, as it could only be effected through\\na wilderness four hundred miles in extent, crowded\\nwith wandering Indian bands, where they would be\\nimminently exposed to recapture, or to death by\\nstarvation.\\nSimon Kenton was a very handsome man. He won\\nthe sympathies of a very kind English woman, Mrs.\\nHarvey, the wife of one of the traders. She secretly\\nobtained for him and his two companions, and con-\\ncealed in a hollow tree, powder, lead, moccasins, and\\na quantity of dried beef One dark night, when the\\nIndians were engaged in a drunken bout, she met\\nKenton in the garden and handed him three of the best\\nrifles, which she had selected from those stacked near\\n/he house. The biographer of these events writes\\nWhen a woman engages to do an action, she will\\nrisk limb, life or character, to serve him whom she\\nrespects or wishes to befriend. How differently the\\nsame action would be viewed by different per-\\nsons By Kenton and his friends her conduct waa\\nviewed as the benevolent conduct of a good angel\\nwhile if the part she played in behalf of Kenton and\\nhis companions had been known to the commander at\\nDetroit, she would have been looked upon as a\\ntraitress, who merited the scorn and contempt of all\\nhonest citizens. This night was the last that Kenton\\never saw or heard of her.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "I50 DANIEL BOONE.\\nOur fugitives traveled mostly by night, guided by\\nthe stars. After passing through a series of wonderful\\nadventures, which we have not space here to record,\\non the thirty-third day of their escape, they reached\\nthe settlement at the Falls of the Ohio, now Louis-\\nville. During the rest of the war, Kenton was a very\\nactive partisan. He died in the year 1836, over eighty\\nyears of age, having been for more than a quarter of a\\nrentmy an honored member of the Methodist Church,", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nLift in the Wilderness^\\nStewart killed by the Indians Squire Boone returns to the Bettlei\\nments. Solitary Life of Daniel Boone Return of Sqiiire Boou i\\nExtended and Romantic Explorations. Charms and Perils of\\nthe Wilderness The Emigrant Party. The Fatal Ambuscade.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nRetreat of the Emigrants. Solitude of the Wilderness.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Expe-\\ndition of Lewis and Clarke. Extraordinary Adventures oi\\nCotter.\\nThere were now four hungry men to occupy the\\nlittle camp of our bold adventurers. They do not\\nseem to have been conscious of enduring any hard-\\nships. The winter was mild. Their snug tent\\nfurnished perfect protection from wind and rain.\\nWith abundant fuel, their camp-fire ever blazed\\nbrightly. Still it was necessary for them to be diligent\\nIn hunting, to supply themselves with their daily food.\\nBread, eggs, milk, butter, sugar, and even salt, were\\narticles of which they were entirely destitute.\\nOne day, not long after the arrival of Squire Boone,\\nDaniel Boone, with his companion Stewart, was a\\nlong distance from the camp, hunting. Suddenly\\nthe terrible war-whoop of the Indians resounded from\\na thicket, and a shower of arrows fell around them,\\n(151)", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "152 DANIEL BOONE.\\nStewart, pierced by one of these deadly missiles, fell\\nmortally wounded. A sturdy savage sprang from the\\nambuscade upon his victim, and with a yell buried a\\ntomahawk in his brain. Then, grasping with one\\nhand the hair on the top of his head, he made a rapid\\ncircular cut with his gleaming knife, and tore off the\\nacalp, leaving the skull bare. The revolting deed was\\ndone quicker than it can be described. Shaking the\\nbloody trophy in his hand, he gave a whoop of\\nexultation which echoed far and wide through the\\nsolitudes of the forest.\\nBoone, swift of foot as the antelope, escaped and\\nreached the camp with the sad tidings of the death of\\nhis companion, and of the presence, in their immediate\\nvicinity, of hostile Indians. This so affrighted the\\nNorth Carolinian who had come with Squire Boone,\\nthat he resolved upon an immediate return to the\\nYadkin. He set out alone, and doubtless perished\\nby the way, as he was never heard of again. A\\nskeleton, subsequently found in the wilderness, was\\nsupposed to be the remains of the unfortunate hunter.\\nHe probably perished through exhaustion, or by the\\narrow or tomahawk of the savage.\\nThe two brothers, Daniel and Squire, were now\\nleft entirely alone.\\nThey selected a favorable spot in a wild ravine\\nwhere they would be the least likely to be discovered", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. 153\\nby hunting bands, and built for themselves a snug\\nand comfortable log-house, in which they would be\\nmore effectually sheltered from the storms and cold\\nof winter, and into which they moved from their open\\ncamp. Here they remained, two loving brothers of\\ncongenial tastes, during the months of January, Feb-\\nruary, March and April. Solitary as their life must\\nhave been probably, every hour brought busy employ-\\nment. Each day s food was to be obtained by the\\nrifle. Wood was to be procured for their fire. All\\ntheir clothing, from the cap to the moccasin, was to\\nbe fashioned by their own hands from the skin of the\\ndeer, which they had carefully tanned into pliancy\\nand softness; and there were to be added to their\\ncabin many conveniences which required much in-\\ngenuity with knife and hatchet for their only tools,\\nand with neither nail nor screw for their construction.\\nIn addition to this they were under the necessity of\\nbeing ever on the alert to discover indications of the\\napproach of the Indians.\\nThe winter passed away, not only undisturbed, but\\nevidently very happily. It is remarkable that their\\nretreat was not discovered by any of the Indian\\nbands, who in pursuit of game were constantly roving\\nover those rich hunting grounds.\\nAs summer s warmth returned, Squire Boone de-\\ncided to retrace his steps to the Yadkin, to carry to", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "154 DANIEL BOONE.\\nhis brother s family news of his safety, and to obtain\\nmuch needed supplies of powder and of lead. There\\ni nc satisfactory explanation of the motives which\\n;ould have induced Daniel, after the absence of a\\nyear from his home, to remain alone in that solitary\\ncabin. In his autobiography he has assigned no\\nreason for the extraordinary decision. One of the\\nmost judicious of his biographers makes the following\\nstatement which by no means solves the mystery:\\nWhen the spring came it was time for another\\nmovement. The spring came early, and the awaking\\nto its foliage seemed like the passing from night to\\nthe day. The game had reduced their powder and\\nlead, and without these there was nc existence to the\\nwhite man. Again Daniel Boone rises to the emer-\\ngency. It was necessary that the settlement which\\nthey had made should be continued and protected,\\nand it was the duty in the progress of events that one\\nof them should remain to that task. He made the\\nselection and chose himself. He had the courage to\\nremain alone. And while he felt the keenest desire\\nto see his own family, he felt that he had a noble\\npurpose to serve and was prepared for it.\\nDaniel Boone, in his quaint autobiography, in the\\nfollowing terms alludes to the departure of his\\nLife of Boone, by W. H. Bogart.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. 1 55\\nbrother and his own solitary mode of life during the\\nthree months of his brother s absence\\nOn the first day of May, 1770, my brother re-\\nturned home to the settlement by himself for a new\\nrecruit of horses and ammunition, leaving me by my-\\nself without bread, salt or sugar, without company 0/\\nmy fellow creatures, or even a horse or dog. I con-\\nfess I never before was under greater necessity of\\nexercising philosophy and fortitude. A few days I\\npassed uncomfortably. The idea of a beloved wife\\nand family, and their anxiety on account of my ab-\\nsence and exposed situation, made sensible impres-\\nsions on my heart. A thousand dreadful apprehen-\\nsions presented themselves to my view, and had\\nundoubtedly exposed me to melancholy if further\\nindulged.\\nOne day I took a tour through the country, and\\nthe diversity and beauties of nature I met with in\\nthis charming season, expelled every gloomy and\\nvexatious thought. Just at the close of the day the\\ngentle gales retired, and left the place to the disposal\\nof a profound calm. Not a breeze shook the most\\ntremulous leaf. I had gained the summit of a com-\\nmanding ridge, and looking around with astonishing\\ndelight beheld the ample plain, the beauteous tracts\\nbelow. On the other hand I surveyed the famou.s\\nriver Ohio, that rolled in silent dignity, marking the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "IS6 DANIEL BOONE.\\nwestern boundary of Kentucky, with inconcefvable\\ngrandeur. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains\\nlift their venerable heads and penetrate the clouds.\\nI kindled a fire near a fountain of sweet water,\\nand feasted on the loin of a buck. The fallen shades\\nof night soon overspread the whole hemisphere, and\\nthe earth seemed to gape after the hovering moisture.\\nMy roving excursion this day had fatigued my body\\nand diverted my imagination. I laid me down to\\nsleep, and I woke not until the sun had chased away\\nthe night. I continued this tour, and in a lew days\\nexplored a considerable part of the country, each day\\nequally pleased as the first. I returned to my old\\ncamp which was not disturbed in my absence. I did\\nnot confine my lodging to it, but often reposed in\\nthick cane brakes, to avoid the savages, who I believe\\noften visited it, but, fortunately for me, in my ab-\\nsence.\\nIn this situation I was constantly exposed to\\ndanger and death. How unhappy such a condition\\nfor a man tormented with fear, which is vain if no\\ndanger comes and if it does, only augments the\\npain It was my happiness to be destitute of this\\nafflicting passion, with which I had the greatest reason\\nto be affected. The prowling wolves diverted my\\nnocturnal hours with perpetual bowlings, and the\\nvarious species of animals io this vast forest, in the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. 1 57\\nday-time were continually in my view. Thus I was\\nsurrounded with plenty in the midst of want. I was\\nhappy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.\\nIn such a diversity it was impossible I should be dis-\\nposed to melancholy. No populous city, with all the\\nvarieties of commerce and stately structures, could\\nafford so much pleasure to my mind, as the beauties\\nof nature I found here.\\nThus through an uninterrupted scene of sylvan\\npleasures, I spent the time until the twenty-seventh\\nday of July following, when my brother, to my great\\nfelicity, met me, according to appointment, at our old\\ncamp.\\nBoone was at this time thirty-six years of age. He\\nwas about five feet ten inches in height, and of re-\\nmarkably vigorous and athletic frame. His Hfe in\\nthe open air, his perfect temperance, and his freedom\\nfrom all exciting passions, gave him constant health.\\nSquire brought back to his brother the gratifying\\nnews that hfe wife Rebecca was in good health and\\nspirits, and cheerfully acquiesced in whatever decision\\nher husband might make, in reference to his absence.\\nShe had full confidence in the soundness of his judg-\\nment, and in his conjugal and parental love. The\\nchildren were all well, and from the farm and the\\nforest the wants of the family were fully supplied.\\nIt appears that Squire Boone had succeeded ifi\\n14", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "158 DANIEL BOONE.\\nbringing one or two horses across the movuntains. The\\nabundance of grass kept them in fine condition. Upon\\nthe backs of these horses, the pioneers could traverse\\nthe treeless prairies without obstruction, and lai^e\\nportions of the forest were as free from underbrush\\nas the park of an English nobleman. Invaluable as\\nthese animals were to the adventurers, they greatly\\nincreased their perils. They could not easily be con-\\ncealed. Their footprints could not be effaced, and\\nthere was nothing the Indians coveted so greatly as\\na horse.\\nThe two adventurers now set out on horseback for\\nan exploring tour to the south-west. Following a\\nline nearly parallel with the Cumberland Range, after\\ntraversing a magnificent region of beauty and fertility\\nfor about one hundred and fifty miles, they reached\\nthe banks of the Cumberland river. This majestic\\nstream takes its rise on the western slope of the\\nCumberland mountains. After an exceedingly cir-\\ncuitous route of six hundred miles, running far down\\ninto Tennessee, it turns north-westerly again, a?w:J\\nempties its waters into the Ohio, about sixty miles\\nabove the entrance of that river into the Mississippi,\\nIt was midsummer. The weather was delightful.\\nThe forest free from underbrush, attractive as the\\nmost artificial park, and the smooth sweep of the\\ntreeless prairie presented before them as enticing a", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. 1 59\\nroute of travel as the imagination could desire.\\nThere were of course hardships and privations, which\\nwould have been regarded as very severe by the\\ndwellers in the sealed houses, but none which dis-\\nturbed in the slightest degree the equanimity of these\\nhardy adventurers. They journeyed very leisurely\\nseven months being occupied in the tour. Probably\\nonly a few miles were accomplished each day. With\\nsoft saddles made of the skin of buffalo, with their\\nhorses never urged beyond a walk, with bright skies\\nabove them, and vistas of beauty ever opening before\\nthem, and luxuriance, bloom and fragrance spread\\neverywhere around, their journey seemed replete with\\nenjoyment of the purest kind.\\nThough it was necessary to practice the extreme of\\ncaution, to avoid capture by the Indians, our adven-\\nturers do not seem to have been annoyed in the slightest\\ndegree with any painful fears on that account. Each\\nmorning they carefully scanned the horizon, to see if\\nanywhere there could be seen the smoke of the camp*\\nfire curling up from the open prairie or from the\\nforest. Through the day they were ever on the alert^\\nexamining the trails which they occasionally passed, to\\nsee if there were any fresh foot prints, or other indi-\\ncations of the recent presence of their foe. At night,\\nbefore venturing to kindle their own camp-fire, they\\nlooked cautiously in every direction to see if a gleaiw", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "l60 DANIEL BOONE.\\nfrom an Indian encampment could anywhere be\\nseen. Thus from the first of August to the ensuing\\nmonth of March, these two bold men traversed, for\\nmany hundred miles, an unknown country, filled with\\nwandering hunting bands of hostile Indians, and yet\\navoided capture or detection.\\nIf a storm arose, they would rear their cabin in\\nsome secluded dell, and basking in the warmth of\\ntheir camp-fire wait until the returning sun invited\\nthem to resume their journey. Or if they came to\\nsome of nature s favored haunts, where Eden-like\\nattractions were spread around them, on the borders\\nof the lake, by the banks of the stream, or beneath the\\nbrow of the mountain, they would tarry for a few\\ndays, reveling in delights, which they both had the\\ntaste to appreciate.\\nIn this way, they very thoroughly explored the\\nupper valley of the Cumberland river. For some\\nreason not given, they preferred to return north several\\nhundred miles to the Kentucky river, as the seat of\\ntheir contemplated settlement. The head waters of\\nthis stream are near those of the Cumberland. It\\nhowever flows through the very heart of Kentucky,\\ntill it enters the Ohio river, midway between the\\npresent cities of Cincinnati and Louisville. It was in\\nthe month of March that they reached the Kentucky\\nriver on their return. For some time they wandered", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. lOi\\nalong its banks searching for the more suitable situ-\\nation for the location of a colony.\\nThe exemption of these men, said W. H.\\nBogart, from assault by the Indians during all this\\nlong period of seven months, in which, armed and on\\nhorseback, they seem to have roamed just where they\\nchose, is most wonderful. It has something about it\\nwhich seems like a special interposition of Providence,\\nbeyond the ordinary guardianship over the progress\\nof man. On the safety of these men rested the hope\\nof a nation. A very distinguished authority has\\ndeclared, that without Boone, the settlements could\\nnot have been upheld and the conquest of Kentucky\\nwould have been reserved for the emigrants of the\\nnineteenth century.\\nBoone having now, after an absence of nearly two\\nyears, apparently accomplished the great object of\\nhis mission having, after the most careful and exten-\\nsive exploration, selected such a spot as he deemed\\nmost attractive for the future home of his family,\\ndecided to return to the Yadkin and make prepar-\\nations for their emigration across the mountains. To us\\nnow, such a movement seems to indicate an almost in-\\nsane boldness and recklessness. To take wife and chil-\\ndren into a pathless wilderness filled with unfriendly\\nsavages, five hundred miles from any of the settle-\\nments of civilization would seem to invite death.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "l62 DANIEL BOONE.\\nfamily could not long be concealed. Their discovery\\nby the Indians would be almost the certain precursor\\nof their destruction. Boone, in his autobiography,\\nsays in allusion to this hazardous adventure\\nI returned home to my family with a determi-\\nnation to bring them as soon as possible, at the risk of\\nmy life and fortune, to live in Kentucky, which I\\nesteemed a second paradise.\\nThe two brothers accomplished the journey safely,\\nand Daniel Boone found his family, after his long\\nabsence, in health and prosperity. One would have\\nsupposed that the charms of home on the banks of\\nthe Yadkin, where they could dwell in peace, abund-\\nance and safety, would have lured our adventurer\\nto rest from his wanderings. And it is probable that\\nfor a time, he wavered in his resolution. Two\\nyears elapsed ere he set out for his new home in the\\nFar-West.\\nThere was much to be done in preparation for so\\nmomentous a movement. He sold his farm on the\\nYadkin and invested the proceeds in such comforts\\nas would be available on the banks of the Kentucky.\\nMoney would be of no value to him there. A path\\nhad been discovered by which horses could be led\\nthrough the mountains, and thus many articles could\\nbe transported which could not be taken in packs on\\nthe back. Several of the neighbors, elated by the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. 163\\ndescription which Boone gave of the paradise he had\\nfound, were anxious to join his family in their emigra-\\ntion. There were also quite a number of young men\\nrising here and there, who, lured by the romance of\\nthe adventure, were eager to accompany the expedi-\\ntion. All these events caused delays. The party of\\nemigrants became more numerous than Boone at first\\nexpected.\\nIt was not until the twenty-fifth of September, 1773,\\nthat Daniel Boone, his brother Squire, and quite\\na large party of emigrants, probably in all men,\\nwomen and children not less than sixty in number,\\ncommenced their journey across the mountains. There\\nwere five families and forty pioneers, all well armed,\\nwho were quite at home amid the trials and priva-\\ntions of the wilderness. Four horses, heavily laden,\\nled the train throusrh the narrow trails of the forest.\\nThen came, in single file, the remainder of the party,\\nof all ages and both sexes. It must have been a\\nsingular spectacle which was presented, as this long\\nline wound its way through the valleys and over the\\nridges.\\nSquire Boone was quite familiar with the path. It\\nwas delightful autumnal weather. The days were\\nlong and calm, and yet not oppressi\\\\ely hot. There\\nwere no gloved gentlemen or delicate ladies in the\\ncompany. All were hardy men and women, accus-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "164 DANIEL BOONE.\\ntomed to endurance. Each day s journey was short\\nAn hour before the sun disappeared in the west, the\\nlittle village of cabins arose, where some spring gur-\\ngled from the cliff, or some sparkling mountain sticam\\nrippled before them. In front of each cabin tlie camp\\nfire blazed. All was animation and apparent joy, as\\nthe women prepared the evening meal, and the\\nwearied children rested upon their couch of dried\\nleaves or fragrant twigs. If a storm arose, they had\\nbut to remain beneath their shelter until it passed\\naway.\\nTraveling, says Madame de Stael, who was ac-\\ncustomed to the most luxurious of European convey-\\nances, is the most painful of pleasures. Probably\\nour travelers on this journey experienced as many\\npleasures and as few pains as often fall to the lot of\\nany tourist. The solitary wilderness has its attrac-\\ntions as well as the thronged town.\\nThese bold men armed with their rifles, under such\\nan accomplished leader as Daniel Boone, penetrated\\nthe wilderness with almost the strength of an inva-\\nding army. Upon the open prairie, the superiority of\\ntheir arms would compensate for almost any inferior-\\nity of numbers. Indeed they had little to fear from\\nthe savages, unless struck suddenly with overwhelm-\\ning numbers leaping upon them from some ambu^.\\nPleasant days came and went, while nothing occurred", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. l6$\\nto interrupt the prosperity of their journey. They\\nwere approaching the celebrated Cumberland Gap^\\nwhich seems to be a door that nature has thrown^\\nopen for passing through this great mountain barrier,.\\nThe vigilance they ought to have practiced had been\\nin some degree relaxed by their freedom from all\\nalarm. The cows had fallen a few miles behind,.\\nseven young men were with them, a son of Daniel\\nBoone being one of the number. The main party\\nwas not aware how far the cattle had fallen in the\\nrear.\\nIt is probable that the savages had been following;\\nthem for several days, watching for an opportunity to*\\nstrike, for suddenly, as they were passing through a.\\nnarrow ravine, the fearful war-whoop resounded from;\\nthe thickets on both sides, a shower of arrows fell\\nupon them, and six of the seven young men were\\ninstantly struck down by these deadly missiles. One\\nonly escaped. The attack was so sudden, so unex-\\npected, that the emigrants had scarcely time for one\\ndischarge of their firearms, ere they were struck with,\\ndeath. The party in advance heard with conster-\\nnation the reports of the muskets, and immediately\\nreturned to the scene of the disaster. But several\\nmiles intervened. They met the fugitive who had\\nescaped, bleeding and almost breathless.\\nHurrying on, an avful spectacle met their view.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "1 66 DANIEL BOONE.\\nThe bodies of six of the young men lay in the path,\\nin angled and gory, with their scalps torn from their\\nheads the cattle were driven into the forest beyond\\npursuit. One of these victims was the eldest son cl\\nDaniel Boone. James was a noble lad of but seventeen\\nyears. His untimely death was a terrible blow to his\\nfather and mother. This massacre took place on the\\ntenth of October, only a fortnight after the expedition\\nhad commenced its march. The gloom which it threw\\nover the minds of the emigrants was so great, that\\nthe majority refused to press any farther into a wil-\\nderness where they would encounter such perils.\\nThey had already passed two mountain ridges.\\nBetween them there was a very beautiful valley,\\nthrough which flows the Clinch River. This many\\nleagues below, uniting with the Holston River, flowing\\non the other side of Powell s Ridge, composes the\\nmajestic Tennessee, which, extending far down into\\nAlabama, turns again north, and traversing the whole\\nbreadth of Tennessee and Kentucky, empties into the\\nOhio.\\nNotwithstanding the remonstrances of Daniel Boone\\nand his brother, the majority of the emigrants resolved\\nto retreat forty miles over the Walden Ridge, and\\nestablish themselves in the valley of the Clinch.\\nDaniel Bcx)ne, finding all his attempts to encourage\\nthem to proceed in vain, decided with his customary", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. l6f\\ngood sense to acquiesce in their wishes, and quietly\\nto await further developments. The whole party\\nconsequently retraced their steps, and reared their\\ncabins on fertile meadows in the valley of the Clinch\\nRiver. Here, between parallel ridges of mountains^\\nrunning north-east and south-west, Boone with his.\\ndisheartened emigrants passed seven months. This^\\nsettlement was within the limits of the present State\\nof Virginia, in its most extreme south-western corner.\\nThe value of the vast country beyond the mountains\\nwas beginning to attract the attention of the governors\\nof the several colonies. Governor Dunmore of Vir-\\nginia had sent a party of surveyors to explore the\\nvalley of the Ohio River as far as the celebrated Falls-\\nof the Ohio, near the present site of Louisville. Quite\\na body of these surveyors had built and fortified a\\ncamp near the Falls, and were busy in exploring the\\ncountry, in preparation for the granting of lands\\nas rewards for services to the officers and soldiers in\\nthe French war. These pioneers were far away in the\\nwilderness, four hundred miles beyond any settlement\\nof the whites. They were surrounded by thousands\\nof Indian warriors, and still they felt somewhat\\nsecure, as a treaty of peace had been made by the\\nGovernor of Virginia with the neighboring chiefs.\\nBut, notwithstanding this treaty, many of the more\\nintelligent of the Inc:ians foresaw the inevitable des^", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "l6S DANIEL BOONE.\\ntruction of their hunting grounds, should the white\\nf^^men succeed in establishing themselves on their lands,\\nand cutting them up mto farms.\\nA friendly Indian had informed Governor Dunmorc\\nAat a very formidable conspiracy had been organised\\nby the tribes for the destruction of the party en-\\ncamped at the Falls of the Ohio, and for the extermi-\\nnation of every other party of whites who should\\npenetrate their hunting grounds. It was in accordance\\n^th this conspiracy that Daniel Boone s party was\\nso fiercely assailed when near the Gap, in the Cum-\\nberland mountains and it was probably the know-\\nledge of this conspiracy, thus practically developed,\\nwhich led the husbands and fathers to abandon their\\nenterprise of plunging into the wilderness of Ken-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0tucky.\\nThere were about forty men all numbered, in the\\nlittle band of surveyors at the Fails. They were in\\nterrible peril. Unconscious of danger, and supposing\\nthe Indians to be friendly, they were liable to be\\nattacked on any day by overwhelming numbers of\\nSavages, and utterly exterminated. It consequently\\nt became a matter of great moment that Governor\\nDunmore should send them word of their danger,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0and if possible secure their safe return to the settle-\\nments, But who would undertake such a mission\\n^ne fraught with greater danger could not easily be", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. 1 69\\nimagined. The courier must traverse on foot a\\ndistance of four or five hundred miles through a\\npathless wilderness, filled with hunting bands of\\nhostile savages. He must live upon the game he\\ncould shoot each day, when every discharge of his\\nmusket was liable to bring upon him scores of foesw\\nHe must either eat his food raw, or cook it at a file\\nwhose gleam at night, or smoke by day, would be\\nalmost sure to attract the attention of death-dealing\\nenemies. He must conceal his footprints from hunting\\nbands, wandering far and wide in every direction, so\\nkeen in their sagacity that they could almost follow the\\ntrack of the lightest-footed animal through the forest or\\nover the prairie.\\nThe Indians had also well-trained dogs, who being\\nonce put upon the scent, could with unerring instinct\\nfollow any object of search, until it was overtaken.\\nThe name of Daniel Boone was mentioned to\\nGovernor Dunmore as precisely the man to meet\\nthis exigency. The Governor made application to\\nthe practiced hunter, and Boone, without the slightest\\nhesitancy, accepted the perilous office. Indeed he\\nseems to have been entirely unconscious of the\\nheroism he was developing. Never did knight errant\\nof the middle ages undertake an achievement of equal\\ndaring for capture not .only was certain death, but\\ndeath under the most frightful tortures. But Boonej\\n16", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "I/O DANIEL BOONE.\\ncalm, imperturbable, pensive, with never a shade oi\\nboastfulness in word or action, embarked in the enter-\\nprise as if it had been merely one of the ordinary\\noccurrences of every-day life. In the following modest\\nwords he records the event in his autobiography:\\nI remained with my family on the Clinch rivei\\nuntil the sixLh of June, 1774, when I, and one Michael\\nStoner, were solicited by Governor Dunmore of Vir-\\nginia, to go to the Falls of the Ohio to conduct into the\\nsettlements a number of surveyors that had been\\nsent thither by him some months before, this country\\nhaving about this time drawn the attention of many\\nadventurers. We immediately complied with the\\nGovernor s request, and conducted in the surveyors,\\ncompleting a tour of eight hundred miles, through\\nmany difficulties, in sixty-two days.\\nThe narrative which follows will give the reader\\nsome idea of the wilderness which Boone was about\\nto penetrate and the perils which he was to encounter.\\nAn emigrant of these early days who lived to\\nwitness the transformation of the wilderness from a\\nscene of unbroken solitude into the haunts of\\nbusy men, in the following words describes this\\ndiange and its influence upon the mind\\nTo a person who has witnessed all the changes\\nwhich have taken place in the western country since\\nits first settlement, its former appearance is like a", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. 171\\ndream or romance. He will find it difficult to realise\\nthe features of that wilderness which was the abode\\nof his infant days. The little cabin of his father no\\nlonger exists. The little field and truck patch which\\ngave him a scant j supply of coarse bread and vege-\\ntables have been swallowed up in the extended\\nmeadows, orchard or grain fields. The rude fort in\\nwhich his people had resided so many painful\\nsummers has vanished.\\nEverywhere surrounded by the busy hum of\\nmen and the splendor, arts, refinements and comforts\\nof civilised life, his former state and that of his\\ncountry have vanished from his memory; or if\\nsometimes he bestows a reflection on its original\\naspect, the mind seems to be carried back to a period\\nof time much more remote than it really is. One\\nadvantage at least results from having lived in a state\\nof society ever on the change and always for the\\nbetter, that it doubles the retrospect of life. With\\nme at any rate it has had that efiect Did not the\\ndefinite number of my years teach me to the contrary,\\nI should think myself at least one hundred years old\\ninstead of fifty. The case is said to be widely\\ndifferent with those who have passed their lives in\\ncities or ancient settlements where, from year to\\nyear, the same unchanging aspect of things presents\\nitself:", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "1/2 DANIEL BOOxVE.\\n**One prominent feature of the wilderness is its\\nsolitude. Those who plunged into the bosom of tha\\nforest left behind them not only the busy hum of men,\\nbut of domesticated animal life generally. The\\nsolitude of the night was interrupted only by the\\nhowl of the wolf, the melancholy moan of the ill-\\nboding owl or the shriek of the frightful panther.\\nEven the faithful dog, the only steadfast companion\\nof man among the brute creation, partook of the\\nsilence of the desert the discipline of his master\\nforbade him to bark or move but in obedience to his\\ncommand, and his native sagacity soon taught the\\npropriety of obedience to this severe government.\\nThe day was, if possible, more solitary than the\\nnight. The noise of the wild turkey, the croaking of\\nthe raven, or the woodpecker tapping the hollow\\nbeac^tree, did not much enliven the dreary scene.\\nThe various tribes of singing birds are not inhabitants\\nof the desert. They are not carnivorous and there-\\nfore must be fed from the labors of man. At any\\nrate they did not exist in this country at its first\\nsettlement.\\nLet the imagination of the reader pursue the track\\nof the adventurer into the solitary wilderness, bending\\nhis course towards the setting sun over undulating\\nhilifi, under the shade of large forest trees, and wading\\nthrough the rank weeds and grass which then covered", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. 1 73\\nthe earth. Now he views from the top of a hill the\\nwinding course of a creek whose streams he wishes\\nto explore. Doubtful of its course and of his own,\\nhe ascertains the cardinal points of north and south\\nby the thickness of the moss and bark on the north\\nside of the ancient trees. Now descending into a\\nvalley, he presages his approach to a river by seeing\\nlarge ash, basswood and sugar trees beautifully\\nfestooned with wild grape vines. Watchful as Argus,\\nhis restless eye catches everything around him.\\nIn an unknown region and surrounded with\\ndangers, he is the sentinel of his own safety and\\nrelies on himself for protection. The toilsome march\\nof the day being ended, at the fall of night he seeks\\nfor safety some narrow sequestered hollow, and by\\nthe side of a large log builds a fire and, after eating\\na coarse and scanty meal, wraps himself up in his\\nblanket and lays him self down for repose on his bed\\nof leaves, with his feet to the fire, hoping for favorable\\ndreams, ominous of future good luck, while his faith-\\nful dog and gun rest by his side.\\nBut let not the reader suppose that the pilgrim\\nof the wilderness could feast his imagination with the\\nromantic beauties of nature, without any drawback\\nfrom conflicting passions. His situation did not afford\\nhim much time for contemplation. He was an exile\\nfrom the warm clothing and plentiful mansions o/", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "174 DANIEL BOONE.\\nsociety. His homely woodman s dress soon became\\nold and ragged. The cravings of hunger compelled\\nhim to sustain from day to day the fatigues of the\\nchase. Often he had to eat his venison, bear s meat,\\nor wild turkey without bread or salt. His situation\\nwas not without its dangers. He did not know at\\nwhat moment his foot might be stung by a serpent,\\nat what moment he might meet with the formidable\\nbear, or on what limb of a tree over his head the\\nmurderous panther might be perched, in a squatting\\nattitude, to drop down upon him and tear him in pieces\\nin a moment.\\nExiled from society and its comforts, the situation\\nof the first adventurers was perilous in the extreme.\\nThe bite of a serpent, a broken limb, a wound of any\\nkind, or a fit of sickness in the wilderness without\\nthose accommodations which wounds and sickness\\nrequire, was a dreadful calamity. The bed of sickness,\\nwithout medical aid, and above all to be destitute of\\nthe kind attention of a mother, sister, wife, or other\\nfemale friends, was a situation which could not be\\nanticipated by the tenant of the forest, with other\\nsentiments than those of the deepest horror.\\nThere are no narratives of more thrilling interest\\nthan those which describe the perils and hair-breadth\\nDoddridge t Notes.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. 1/5\\nescapes which some of these bold hunters encountered.\\nImmediately after the purchase of Louisiana, an ex\u00c2\u00ab\\npedition under Lewis and Clark was fitted out, undei\\nPresident Jefferson s administration, to explore the\\nvast, mysterious, undefined realms which the govern-\\nment had purchased. In the month of May, 1804, the\\nexpedition, in birch canoes, commenced the ascent of\\nthe Missouri river.\\nThey knew not whence its source, what its length\\nor the number of its tributaries, through what regions\\nof fertility or barrenness it flowed, or what the charac-\\nter of the nations who might inhabit its banks.\\nPaddling up the rapid current of this flood of waters\\nin their frail boats, the ascent was slow. By the latter\\npart of October they had reached a point fifteen\\nhundred miles above the spot where the Missouri\\nenters the Mississippi. Here they spent the winter\\nwith some friendly Indians called the Mandans.\\nEarly in April, Lewis and Clark, with thirty men\\nin their canoes, resumed their voyage. Their course\\nwas nearly west. In May they reached the mouth of\\nthe Yellow Stone river, and on the 13th of June came\\nto the Great Falls of the Missouri, Here they found\\na series of cataracts ten miles in length. At one spot\\nthe river plunged over a precipice eighty-seven feet in\\nheight. Carrying their canoes around these falls, they\\nre-embarked, and paddled through what they called", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "176 DANIEL 300NE.\\nThe Gates of the Rocky Mountains. Here for six\\nmiles they were in a narrow channel with perpendicular\\nwalls of rock, rising on both sides to the height of\\ntwelve hundred feet. Thus these adventurers con-\\ntinued their voyage till they reached the head of\\nnavigation, three thousand miles from the mouth oi\\nthe Missouri river. Passing through the mountains\\nthey launched their canoes on streams flowing to the\\nwest, through which they entered the Columbia\\nriver, reaching its mouth, through a thousand perils\\n9\\non the 15th of November. They were now more\\nthan four thousand miles distant from the mouth of\\nthe Missouri. Such was the breadth of the estate\\nwe had purchased of France.\\nHere they passed their second winter. In the\\nearly spring they commenced their return. When\\nthey arrived at the Falls of the Missouri they encoun-\\ntered a numerous band of Indians, very bold and\\ndaring, called the Blackfoot. These savages were\\nastonished beyond measure, at the effect of the rifle\\nwhich could emit thunder and lightning, and a deadly\\nthough invisible bolt. Some of the boldest endea-\\nvored to wrench the rifles from some of the Americans.\\nMr. Lewis found it necessary to shoot one of them\\nbefore they would desist. The rest fled in dismay,\\nbut burning with the desire for revenge. The\\nexplorers continuing their voyage arrived at \u00c2\u00bb^aint", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. 1 77\\nLoais on the 23rd of September, 1806, having been\\nabsent more than two years, and having traveled more\\nthan nine thousand miles.\\nWhen the expedition, on its return, had reached the\\nhead v/aters of the Missouri, two of these fearless men,\\nColter and Potts, decided to remain in the wilderness\\nto hunt beaver. Being well aware of the hostility of\\nthe Blackfoot Indians, within whose regions they were,\\nthey set their traps at night, and took them up in the\\nfirst dawn of the day. Early one morning, they were\\nascending a creek in a canoe, visiting their traps,\\nwhen they were alarmed by a great noise, like the\\ntrampling of animals. They could see nothing, as\\nthe perpendicular banks of the river impeded their\\nview. Yet they hoped that the noise was occasioned\\nsimply by the rush of a herd of buffaloes.\\nTheir doubts were soon painfully removed. A\\nband of six hundred Blackfoot warriors appeared\\nupon each side of the creek. Escape was hopeless.\\nThe Indians beckoned to the hunters to come ashore.\\nColter turned the head of the canoe towards the\\nbank, and as soon as it touched the land, a burly savage\\nseized the rifle belonging to Potts, and wrenched it\\nfrom his hand. But Colter, who was a man of extra-\\nordinary activity and strength, grasped the rifle, tore\\nit from the hands of the Indian, and handed it back\\nto Potts. Colter stepped ashore and was a captive", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "178 DANIEL BOONE.\\nPoLts, with apparent infatuation, but probably in*\\nfluenced by deliberate thought, pushed again out into\\nthe stream. He knew that, as a captive, death by\\nhorrible torture awaited him. He preferred to pro-\\nvoke the savages to his instant destruction. An\\narrow was shot at him, which pierced his body. He\\ntook deliberate aim at the Indian who threw it and\\nshot him dead upon the spot. Instantly a shower of\\narrows whizzed through the air, and he fell a dead\\nman in the bottom of the boat. The earthly troubles\\nof Potts were ended. But fearful were those upon\\nwhich Colter was about to enter.\\nThe Indians, after some deliberation respecting the\\nmanner in which they would put him to death, strip-\\nped him entirely naked, and one of the chiefs led him\\nout upon the prairie to the distance of three or four\\nhundred yards from the rest of the band who were\\ngrouped together. Colter then perceived that he was\\nto have the dreadful privilege of running for his life\\n^he, entirely naked and unarmed, to be pursued by\\nsix hundred fleet-footed Indians with arrows and\\njavelins, and with their feet and limbs protected\\nfrom thorns and brambles by moccasins and deer-\\nskin leggins.\\nSave yourself if you can, said the chief in the\\nBlackfoot language as he set him loose. Colter\\nsprung forward with almost supernatural speed. In\u00c2\u00bb", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. 1 79\\nstantly the Indian s war-whoop burst from the lips of\\nhis six hundred pursuers. They were upon a plain\\nabout six miles in breadth abounding with the prickly\\npear. At the end of the plain there was Jefferson\\nriver, a stream but a few rods wide. Every step Colter\\ntook, bounding forward with almost the speed of an\\nantelope, his naked feet were torn by the thorns.\\nThe physical effort he made was so great that the\\nblood gushed from his nostrils, and flowed profisely\\ndown over his chest. He had half crossed the plain\\nbefore he ventured to glance over his shoulder upon\\nhis pursuers, who, with hideous yells, like baying blood-\\nhounds, seemed close upon his heels. Much to his\\nrelief he perceived that he had greatly distanced most\\nof the Indians, though one stout savage, with a javelin\\nin his hand, was within a hundred yards of him.\\nHope reanimated him. Regardless of lacerated\\nfeet and blood, he pressed forward with renovated\\nvigor until he arrived within about a mile of the river,\\nwhen he found that his pursuer was gaining rapidly\\nupon him. He could hear his breathing and the\\nsound of his footsteps, and expected every moment\\nto feel the sharp javelin piercing his back.\\nIn his desperation he suddenly stopped, turned\\nround and stretching out both of his arms, rushed, in\\nhis utter defencelessness, upon the armed warrior.\\nThe savage, startled by thi\u00c2\u00ab unexpected movement", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "l8o DANIEL BOONE.\\nand by the bloody appearance of his victim, stumbled\\nand fell, breaking his spear as he attempted to throw\\nit. Colter instantly snatched up the pointed part, and\\npinned his foe, quivering with convulsions to the earth.\\nAgain he plunged forward on the race for life.\\nThe Indians, as they came up, stopped for a moment\\naround the body of their slain comrade, and then\u00c2\u00bb\\nwith hideous yells, resumed the pursuit. The stream\\nwas fringed with a dense growth of cotton-wood trees.\\nColter rushed through them, thus concealed from\\nobservation, and seeing near by a large raft of drift\\ntimber, he plunged into the water, dived under the\\nraft and fortunately succeeded in getting his head\\nabove the water between the logs, wh6re smallef\\nwood covered hihi to the depth of several feet.\\nScarcely had he attained this hiding place ere the\\nIndians like so many fiends came rushing down to\\nthe river s bank. They searched the cotto wood\\nthickets, and traversed the raft in all directions. They\\nfrequently came so near the hiding place of Colter\\nthat he could see them through the chinks. He was\\nterribly afraid that they would set fire to the raft\\nNight came on, and the Indians disappeared. Colter,\\nin the darkness, dived from under the raft, swam\\ndown the river to a considerable distance, and then\\nlanded and traveled all night, following the course of\\nthe stream.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. i8l\\nAlthough happy in having escaped from the\\nIndians, his situation was still dreadful. He ivas com-\\npletely naked under a burning sun. The soles of his\\nfeet were filled with the thorns of the prickly pear.\\nHe was hungry and had no means of killing game^\\nalthough he saw abundance around him and was at\\na great distance from the nearest settlement. After\\nsome days of sore travel, during which he had no\\nother sustenance than the root known by naturalists\\nunder the name oi psoralea esculenta, he at length\\narrived in safety at Lisa Fort, on the Big Horn, a\\nbranch of the Yellow Stone river.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nCaptivity and Flight.\\nHeroism of Thomas Higgins and of Mrs. Pursley. AfRtlrs at Boones-\\nborough. Continued Alarms. Need of Salt. Its Manufaotare.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nIndian Schemes. Capture of Boone and twenty-seven men.\\nDilemma of the British at Detroit. Blackfish adopts Colonel\\nBoone. Adoption Ceremony. Indian Designs. Escape of Boono.\\nAttacks the Savages. ^The Fort Threatened.\\nThe following well authenticated account of the\\nadventures of a ranger is so graphically described in\\nBrown s History of Illinois^ that we give it in the\\nwords of the writer\\nThomas Higgins, a native Kentuckian, was, in\\nthe summer of 1814, stationed in a block-house eight\\nmiles south of Greenville, in what is now Bond\\nCounty, Illinois. On the evening of the 30th of\\nAugust, 1 8 14, a small party of Indians having been\\nseen prowling about the station, Lieutenant Journay,\\nwith all his men, twelve only in number, sallied forth\\nthe next morning, just before daybreak, in pursuit of\\nthem. They had not proceeded far on the border of the\\nprairie, before they were in an ambuscade of seventy\\nor eighty savages. At the first fire, the lieutenant\\nand three of his men were killed. Six fled to the fort\\n(183)", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "CAfTIVITY AND FLIGHT. 1 83\\nunder cover of the smoke, for the morning was sultry,\\nand the air being damp, the smoke from the guns hung\\nlike a cloud over the scene. But Higgins remained\\nbehind to have one more pull at the enemy, and to\\navenge the death of his companions.\\nHe sprang behind a small elm scarcely sufficient\\nto protect his body, when, the smoke partly rising,\\ndiscovered to him a number of Indians, upon whom\\nhe fired, and shot down the foremost one. Concealed\\nstill by the smoke, Higgins reloaded, mounted his\\nhorse, and turned to fly, when a voice, apparently\\nfrom the grass, hailed him with Tom, you won t\\nleave me, will you\\nHe turned immediately around, and seeing a fellow\\nsoldier by the name of Burgess lying on the ground,\\nwounded and gasping for breath, replied, No, I will\\nnot leave you come along. I can t come,* said\\nBurgess, my leg is all smashed to pieces.*\\nHiggins dismounted, and taking up his friend,\\nwhose ankle had been broken, was about to lift him\\non his horse, when the animal, taking fright, darted\\noff in an instant and left them both behind. This\\nis too bad, said Higgins, but don t fear. You hop\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ff on your three legs and I will stay behind between\\nyou and the Indians and keep them off. Get into\\nthe tallest grass and creep as near the ground as pos-\\ngible. Burgess did so and escaped.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "284 DANIEL BOONE.\\nThe smoke which had hitherto concealed Higgina\\nnow cleared away, and he resolved, if possible, to\\nretreat. To follow the track of Burgess was most\\nexpedient. It would, however, endanger his friend\\nHe determined, therefore, to venture boldly forward\\nand, if discovered, to secure his own safety by the\\nrapidity of his flight. On leaving a small thicket in\\nwhich he had sought refuge, he discovered a tall,\\nportly savage near by, and two others in the direction\\nbetween him and the fort.\\nHe started, therefore, for a little rivulet near, but\\nfound one of his limbs failing him, it having been\\nstruck by a ball in the first encounter, of which, till\\nnow, he was scarcely conscious. The largest Indian\\npressed close upon him, and Higgins turned round\\ntwo or three times in order to fire. The Indian\\nhalted and danced about to prevent his taking aim.\\nHe saw that it was unsafe to fire at random, and per-\\nceiving two others approaching, knew that he must\\nbe overpowered unless he could dispose of the forward\\nIndian first. He resolved, therefore, to halt and\\nreceive his fire.\\nThe Indian raised his rifle, and Higgins, watching\\nhis eye, turned suddenly as his finger pressed the\\ntrigger, and received the ball in his thigh. He fell,\\nbut rose immediately and ran. The foremost Indian,\\nnow certain oi his prey, loaded again, and with the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "CAPTIVITY AND FLIGHT. 1 85\\nOther two pressed on. They overtook him. He fell\\nagain, and as he rose the whole three fired, and he\\nreceived all their balls. He now fell and rose a third\\ntime, and the Indians, throwing away their guns,\\nadvanced upon him with spears and IcRives. As he\\npresented his gun at one or another, each fell back.\\nAt last the largest Indian, supposing his gun to be\\nempty, from his fire having been thus reserved, ad-\\nvanced boldly to the charge. Higgins fired and the\\nsavage fell.\\nHe had now four bullets in his body, an empty\\ngun in his hand, two Indians unharmed as yet before\\nhim, and a whole tribe but a few yards distant. Any\\nother man would have despaired. Not so with him.\\nHe had slain the most dangerous of the three, and\\nhaving but little to fear from the others, began to\\nload his rifle. They raised a savage whoop and\\nrushed to the encounter. A bloody conflict now en-\\nsued. The Indians stabbed him in several places.\\nTheir spears, however, wfre but thin poles, hastily\\nprepared, and which bent whenever they struck a rib\\nor a muscle. The wounds they made were not\\ntherefore deep, though numerous.\\nAt last one of them threw his tomahawk. It struck\\nhim upon the cheek, severed his ear, laid bare his\\nskuU to the back of his head, and stretched him upon\\nthe prairie. The Indians again rushed on, but Uig-^", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "1 86 DANIEL BOONE.\\ngins, recovering his self-possession, kept them off\\nwith his feet and hands. Grasping at length one of\\ntheir spears, the Indian, in attempting to pull it from\\nhim, raised Higgins up, who, taking his rifle, dashed\\nout the brains of the nearest savage. In doing this,\\nhowever, it broke, the barrel only remaining in his\\nhand. The other Indian, who had heretofore fought\\nwith caution, came now manfully into the battle.\\nHis character as a warrior was in jeopardy. To have\\nfled from a man thus wounded and disarmed, or to\\nhave suffered his victim to escape, would have tar-\\nnished his fame for ever. Uttering, therefore, a ter-\\nrific yell, he rushed on and attempted to stab the\\nexhausted ranger. But the latter warded off his\\nblow with one hand and brandished his rifle barrel\\nwith the other. The Indian was as yet unharmed,\\nand, under existing circumstances, by far the most\\npowerful man. Higgins courage, however, was un-\\nexhausted and inexhaustible.\\nThe savage at last began to retreat from the glare\\nof his untamed eye to the spot where he had dropped\\nhis rifle. Higgins knew that if he recovered that, his\\nown case was desperate. Throwing, therefore, his\\nrifle barrel aside, and drawing his hunting knife he\\nrushed upon his foe. A desperate strife ensued\\ndeep gashes were inflicted on both sides Higgins,\\nfatigued and exhausted by the loss of blood, was no", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "CAPTIVITY AND FLIGHT. 1 87\\nlonger a match for the savage. The latter succeeded\\nin throwing his adversary from him, and went imme-\\ndiately in pursuit of his rifle. Higgins at the same\\ntime rose and sought for the gun of the other Indian.\\nBoth, therefore, bleeding and out of breath, were in\\nsearch of arms to renew the combat.\\nThe smoke had now passed away, and a large\\nnumber of Indians were in view. Nothing, it would\\nseem, could now save the gallant ranger. There wa^\\nhowever, an eye to pity and an arm to save, and that\\narm was a woman s. The little garrison had wit-\\nnessed the whole combat. It consisted of but six\\nmen and one woman that woman, however, was a\\nhost a Mrs. Pursley. When she saw Higgins con-\\ntending single-handed with a whole tribe of savages,\\nshe urged the rangers to attempt his rescue. The\\nrangers objected, as the Indians were ten to one.\\nMrs. Pursley, therefore, snatched a rifle from her\\nhusband s hand, and declaring that so fine a fellow\\nas Tom Higgins should not be lost for want of help,*\\nmounted a horse and sallied forth to his rescue.\\nThe men, unwilling to be outdone by a woman,\\nfollowed at full gallop, reached the spot where\\nHiggins fainted and (Sl^ before the Indians\\ncame up, and while the savage with whom he had\\nbeen engaged was looking for his rifle, his friends\\nlifted the wounded ranger up and throwing him", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "1 88 DANIEL BOONE.\\nacross a horse before one of the party, reached the\\nibrt in safety.\\nHigijins was insensible for several days, and his\\nlife was preserved by continued care. His friend.?\\nextracted two of the balls from his thigh. Two,\\nhowever, yet remained, one of which gave him a good\\ndeal of pain. Hearing afterwards that a physician had\\nsettled within a day s ride of him, he determined to go\\nand see him. The physician asked him fifty dollars\\nfor the operation. This Higgins flatly refused, saying\\nthat it was more than half a year s pension. On\\nreaching home he found that the exercise of riding\\nhad made the ball discernible he requested his wife,\\ntherefore, to hand him his razor. With her assistance\\nhe laid open his thigh until the edge of the razor\\ntouched the bullet, then, inserting his two thumbs\\ninto the gash, *he flirted it out/ as he used to say,\\nwithout it costing him a cent.\\nThe other ball yet remained. It gave him, how-\\never, but little pain, and he carried it with him to the\\ngrave. Higgins died in Fayette County, Illinois, a\\nfew years ago. He was the most perfect specimen of\\na frontier man in his day, and was once assistant\\ndoor-keeper of the House of Representatives in\\nIllinois. The facts above stated are familiar to many\\nto whom Higgins was personally known.\\nBrown s Ilhuoui.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "CAPTIVITV AND FLIGHT. 1 89\\nThis narrative gives one a very vivid idea of the\\nnature of the conflict in which Boone, through so\\nmany years of his life, was engaged. The Httle fort,\\nwhose feeble garrison he commanded, was liable at\\nany time to be assailed by overwhelming numbers.\\nDaniel Boone, during his occupancy of the fort at\\nBoonesborough, manifested the most constant vigi-\\nlance to guard against surprise. He was however\\nstruggling against a foe whose cunning and strategems\\nwere such, as not to allow him an hour of quiet. One\\nmorning two men laboring in the field were shot at\\nby the Indians. Not being hit, they ran for the fort.\\nThey were pursued by the savages, and one was\\ntomahawked and scalped within a few hundred feet\\nof the gate. Boone hearing the alarm, inconsiderately\\nrushed out with ten men upon the miscreants. They\\nfled before him hotly pursued. In the eagerness of\\nthe chase, Boone had not counted the number of his\\nfoes. Some of them rushing from their ambush cut\\noff his retreat. At one discharge, six of his men fell\\nwounded. Boone s leg was shattered by a ball.\\nAs he fell to the ground, the tomahawk of a savage\\nwas over his head. Simon Kenton, who was one of\\nBoone s party, with sure aim pierced the heart of the\\nsavage with a rifle bullet and he fell dead. Reinforce-\\nments rushed from the fort, and fortunately succeeded\\nin rescuing the adventurous party, the wounded and", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "I^O DANIEL BOONE.\\nall. It is said of Boone, that though a silent man and\\nnot given to compliments, he manifested very deep\\ngratitude to his friend Kenton for saving his life.\\nThe very peculiar character of Boone is vividly pre-\\nsent ed in the following sketch, from the graphic pen\\nof Mr. Peck\\nAs dangers thickened and appearances grew\\nmore alarming, as scouts came in with rumors of\\nIndians seen here and there, and as the hardy and\\nbold woodsmen sat around their camp-fires with the\\nloaded rifle at hand, rehearsing for the twentieth time\\nthe tales of noble daring, or the hair-breadth escapes,\\nBoone would sit silent, apparently not heeding the\\nconversation, employed in repairing the rents in his\\nhunting shirt and leggins, moulding bullets or cleaning\\nhis rifle. Yet the eyes of the garrison were upon him.\\nCpncerning Indian signs he was an oracle.\\nSometimes with one or two trusty companions,\\nbut more frequently alone, as night closed in, he\\nwould steal noiselessly away into the woods, to recon-\\nnoiter the surrounding wilderness. And in the day\\ntime, stealthily would he creep along with his trusty\\nrifle resting on his arm, ready for the least sign of\\ndanger, his keen, piercing eyes glancing into every\\nthicket and canetrake, or watch intently for signs\\nof the wiley enemy. Accustomed to range the\\ncountry as a hunter and a scout, he would frequently", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "CAPTIVITY AND FLIGHT. I9I\\nmeet the approaching travelers on the road and pilot\\nthem into the settlement, while his rifle supplied them\\nwith provisions. He was ever more ready to aid\\nthe community, or to engage in public services, than\\nto attend to his private interests.\\nThe want of salt had become one of the greatest\\nprivations of the garrison. It was an article essential\\nto comfort and health, and yet, in the warfare then\\nexisting, was almost impossible of attainment.\\nUpon the [picking river, nearly a hundred miles north\\nfrom Boonesborough, there were valuable springs\\nrichly impregnated with salt. Animals from all\\nquarters frequented these springs, licking the satur-\\nated clay around them. Hence the name of Salt\\nLicks. Evaporating the water by boiling in large\\nkettles, salt of a good quality was easily obtained.\\nThe necessities of the garrison became so great, that\\nColonel Boone took a well-armed party of thirty\\nmen, and threading their way through the wilder-\\nderness, at length reached the springs unassailed. It\\nwas one of the boldest of adventures. It was\\ncertain that the watchful Indians would learn that a\\nparty had left the cover of the fort, and would fall\\nupon them with great ferocity.\\nColonel Boone, who desired to obtain salt for all the\\ngarrisons, deemed it consequently necessary to work\\nflight and day with the greatest possible diligence", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "192 DANIEL BOONE.\\nThey could never venture to move a step beyond\\nthe grasp of their rifles. For nearly four weeks the\\n.salt makers pursued their work unassailed. The news\\nof so strong and well armed a party having left the\\nfort, reached the ears of the Indians. They had a\\nvery great dread of Boone, and knew very well he\\nwould not be found sleeping or unprotected, at the\\nsprings. They shrewdly inferred that the departure\\nof so many men must greatly weaken the garrison,\\nand that they could never hope for a more favorable\\nopportunity to attack Boonesborough.\\nThis formidable fortress was the great object of\\ntheir dread. They thought that if they could lay it in\\nashes, making it the funeral pyre of all its inmates,\\nthe weaker forts would be immediately abandoned by\\ntheir garrisons in despair, or could easily be captured.\\nAn expedition was formed, consisting of more than\\na hundred Indian warriors, and accompanied it is\\nsaid by two Frenchmen. Boone had sent three men\\nback to the garrison, loaded with salt, and to convey\\ntidii gs of the good condition of the party at the\\nsprings\\nOn the morning of the seventh of February, Boone\\nwho was unequalled in his skill as a hunter, and also\\nin the sagacity by which he could avoid the Indians^\\nwas out in search of game as food for the party.\\nEmboldened by the absence of all signs of the vicinity", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "CAPTIVITY AND FLIGHT. 19$\\nof the Indians, he had wandered some distance from\\nthe springs, where he encountered this band of\\nwarriors, attended by the two Frenchmen, on the\\nmarch for the assault on Boonesborough. Though\\nexceedingly fleet of foot, his attempt to escape was\\nin vain. The young Indian runners overtook and\\ncaptured him.\\nThe Indians seem to have had great respect for\\nBoone. Even with them he had acquired the reputa-\\ntion of being a just and humane man, while his\\nextraordinary abilities, both as a hunter and a warrior,\\nhad won their admiration. Boone was not heading a\\nwar party to assail them. He had not robbed them\\nof any of their horses. They were therefore not\\nexasperated against him personally. It is also not\\nimprobable that the Frenchmen who were with them\\nhad influenced them not to treat their prisoner with\\nbarbarity.\\nBoone, whose spirits seemed never to be perturbed,\\nyielded so gracefully to his captors as to awaken in\\ntheir bosoms some emotions of kindness. They prom-\\nised that if the party at the springs would yield with-\\nout resistance which resistance, though unavailing,\\nthey knew would cost them the lives of many of their\\nwarriors the lives of the captives should be safe, and\\nthey should not be exposed to any inhuman treatment.\\nBoone was much perplexed. Had he been with his\\n17", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "194 DANIEL BOONE.\\nmen, he would have fought to the last extremity, and\\nhis presence not improbably might have inspirited\\ntliem, even to a successful defence. But deprived of\\ntheir leader, taken entirely by surprise, and out-\\nnumbered three or four to one, their massacre was\\ncertain. And it was also certain that the Indians,\\nexasperated by the loss which they would have en-\\ncountered, would put every prisoner to death, through\\nall the horrors of fiend-like torture.\\nUnder these circumstances, Colonel Boone very\\nwisely decided upon surrender. It would have been\\nvery impolitic and cruel to do otherwise. He having\\nthus given his word, the Indians placed implicit\\nconfidence in it. They were also perfectly faithful to\\ntheir own promises. Boone was allowed to approach\\nhis men, and represent the necessity of a surrender,\\nwhich was immediately effected. The Indians were so\\nelated by this great victory, and were so well satisfied\\nwith the result of the campaign, that instead of\\ncontinuing their march for the attack of Boones-\\nborough, they returned with their illustrious captive\\nand his twenty-seven companions to their head-\\nquarters on the Little Miami River.\\nThe modest, unaffected account which Boone\\nhimself gives of these transactions, is worthy of record\\nhere\\nOn the seventh of February, as I was hunting to", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "CAPTIVITY AND FLIGHT, 1 95\\nprocure meat for the company, I met a party of one\\nhundred and two Indians, and two Frenchmen, on\\nflieir march against Boonesborough that place being\\nparticularly the object of the enemy. They pursued\\nand took me, and brought me the eighth day to the\\nLicks, where twenty-seven of my party were, three of\\nthem having previously returned home with the salt\\nI, knowing it was impossible for them to escape,\\ncapitulated with the enemy, and at a distance, in their\\nview, gave notice to my men of their situation with\\norders not to resist, but surrender themselves captives,\\nThe generous usage the Indians had promised\\nbefore in my capitulation, was afterwards fully\\ncomplied with, and we proceeded with them as\\nprisoners to Old Chilicothe, the principal Indian town\\non Little Miami, where we arrived, after an uncomfort-\\nable journey in very severe weather, on the eighteenth\\nof February, and received as good treatment as\\nprisoners could expect from savages. On the tenth\\nof March following, I and ten of my men were\\nconducted by forty Indians to Detroit, where we\\narrived the thirtieth day, and were treated by\\nGovernor Hamilton, the British commander at that\\npost, with great humanity.\\nDuring our travels, the Indians entertained mc\\nwell, and their affection for me was so great, that they\\nutterly refused to leave me there with the others^", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "tg6 DANIEL BOONE.\\nalthough the Governor offered them one hundred\\npounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a\\nparole to go home. Several English gentlemen there,\\nbeing sensible of my adverse fortune, and touched\\nwith human sympathy, generously offered a friendly\\nsupply for my wants, which I refused with many\\nthanks for their kindness, adding that I never\\nexpected it would be in my power to recompense such\\nunmerited generosity.\\nThe British officers in Detroit could not venture to\\ninterfere in behalf of Colonel Boone, in any way which\\nwould displease their savage allies, for they relied\\nmuch upon them in their warfare against the colonies.\\nThere was much in the character of our hero to win\\nthe affection of the savages. His silent, unboastful\\ncourage they admired. He was more than their\\nequal in his skill in traversing the pathless forest\\nHis prowess as a hunter they fully appreciated. It\\nwas their hope that he would consent to be incorporated\\n|n their tribe, and they would gladly have accepted\\nhim as one of their chiefs. The savages had almost\\nuniversally sufficient intelligence to appreciate the\\nVast superiority of the white man.\\nThe Indians spent ten days at Detroit, and surren-\\ndered, for a ransom, all their captives to the English,\\nexcepting Colonel Boone. Him they took back on a\\nlong and fatiguing journey to Old Chilicothe on the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "CAPTIVITY AND FLIGHT. 19;\\nLittle Miami. The country they traversed, now so\\nfull of wealth, activity, and all the resources of\\nindividual and social happiness, was then a vast\\nwilderness, silent and lonely. Still in its solitude tt\\nwas very beautiful, embellished with fertile plains,\\nmagnificent groves, and crystal streams. At Chilicothe,\\nColonel Boone was formally adopted, according to an\\nIndian custom, into the family of Blackfish, one of\\nthe distinguished chiefs of the Shawanese tribe.\\nAt Chilicothe, writes Boone, I spent my time\\nas comfortably as I could expect. I was adopted\\naccording to their custom, into a family where I\\nbecame a son, and had a great share in the affection\\nof my new parents, brothers, sisters and friends. I\\nwas exceedingly familiar and friendly with them,\\nalways appearing as cheerful and satisfied as possible,\\nand they put great confidence in me. I often went\\nhunting with them, and frequently gained their ap-\\nplause for my activity, at our shooting matches. I\\nwas careful not to excel them when shooting, for no\\npeople are more envious than they in their sport I\\ncould observe in their countenances and gestures, the\\ngreatest expressions of joy when they exceeded me,\\nand when the reverse happened, of envy. The\\nShawanese king took great notice of me, and treated\\nme with profound respect and entire friendship, often\\ntrusting me to hunt at my liberty. I frequently", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "19^ DANIEL BOONE.\\nreturned with the spoils of the woods and as often\\npresented some of what I had taken to him; expres-\\nsive of my duty to my sovereign. My (c^d and\\nlodging were in common with them. Not so good,\\nindeed, as I could desire, but necessity makes every-\\nthing acceptable.\\nThe spirit manifested by Boone under these cir-\\ncumstances, when he was apparently a hopeless pri-\\nsoner in the hands of the Indians, was not influenced\\nby artifice alone. He had real sympathy for the\\nsavages, being fully conscious of the wrongs which\\nwere often inflicted upon them, and which goaded\\ntheir untamed natures to fearful barbarities. He had\\nalways treated them not only kindly, but with frater-\\nnal respect. The generous treatment he had received\\nin return won his regards. His peculiarly placid\\nnature was not easily disturbed by any reverses. Let\\nwhat would happen, he never allowed himself to com-\\nplain or to worry. Thus making the best of circum-\\nstances, he always looked upoa the brightest side of\\nthings, and was reasonably happy, even In this direful\\ncaptivity. Still he could not forget his home, and\\nwas continually on the alert to avail himself of what-\\never opportunity might be presented to escape and\\nreturn to his friends.\\nThe ceremony of adoption was pretty severe and\\npainful. All the hair of the head was plucked out", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "CAPTIVITY AND FLIGHT. I99\\nby a tedious operation, leaving simply a tuft three or\\nfour inches in diameter on the crown. This was\\ncalled the scalp-lock. The hair was here allowed to\\ng^ow long, and was dressed with ribbons and feathers\\nIt was to an individual warrior what the banner is to\\nan army. The victor tore it from the skull as his\\ntrophy. Having thus denuded the head and dressed\\nthe scalp-lock, the candidate was taken to the river\\nand very thoroughly scrubbed., that all the white\\nblood might be washed out of him. His face was\\npainted in the most approved style of Indian taste,\\nwhen he was led to the council lodge and addressed\\nby the chief in a long and formal speech, in which he\\nexpatiates upon the honor conferred upon the adopted\\nson, and upon the corresponding duties expected of\\nhim.\\nColonel Boone having passed through this trans-\\nformation, with his Indian dress and his painted\\ncheeks, his tufted scalp-lock and his whole person\\nembrowned by constant exposure to the open air,\\ncould scarcely be distinguished from any of his Indian\\nassociates. His wary captors however, notwithstand\\ning all the kindness with which they treated him^\\nseemed to be conscious that it must be his desire to\\nreturn to his friends. They therefore habitually, but\\nwithout a remark suggestive of any suspicions, adopted\\nprecautions to prevent his escape So skiliui a huo*", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "2O0 DANIEL BOONE.\\nter as Boone could, with his rifle and a supply of\\nammunition, traverse the solitary expanse around for\\nalmost any length of time, living in abundance. But\\ndeprived of his rifle or of ammunition, he would soon\\nalmost inevitably perish of starvation. The Indians\\nwere therefore very careful not to allow him to accu-\\nmulate any ammunition, which was so essential to\\nsustain him in a journey through the wilderness.\\nThough Boone was often allowed to go out alone\\nto hunt, they always counted his balls and the\\ncharges of powder. Thus they could judge whether\\nhe had concealed any ammunition to aid him, should\\nhe attempt to escape. He however, with equal\\nsagacity, cut the balls in halves, and used very small\\ncharges of powder. Thus he secretly laid aside quite\\na little store of ammunition. As ever undismayed\\nby misfortune, he serenely gave the energies of his\\nmind to the careful survey of the country around.\\nDuring the time that I hunted for them, he\\nwrites, I found the land for a great extent about\\nthis river to exceed the soil of Kentucky if possible,\\nand remarkably well watered.\\nUpon one of the branches of the Scioto river,\\nwhich stream runs about sixty miles east of the Little\\nMiami, there were some salt springs. Early in June\\na party of the Indians set out for these Licks to\\nmake salt. They took Boone with them. The In-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "CAPTIVITY AND FLIGHT. 20I\\ndians were quite averse to anything like hard work.\\nBoone not only understood the process of manufac-\\nture perfectly, but was always quietly and energeti-\\ncally devoted to whatever he undertook. The Indians,\\ninspired by the double motive of the desire to obtain\\nAS much salt as possible, and to hold securely the\\nprisoner, whom they so highly valued, kept him so\\nbusy at the kettles as to give him no opportunity to\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acscape.\\nAfter an absence of about a fortnight, they returned\\nwith a good supply of salt to the Little Miami.\\nHere Boone was quite alarmed to find that during\\nhis absence the chiefs had been marshaling a band of\\ntour hundred and fifty of their bravest warriors to\\nattack Boonesborough. In that fort were his wife and\\nhis children. Its capture would probably insure their\\nslaughter. He was aware that the fort was not suffi-\\nciently guarded by its present inmates, and that,\\nunapprehensive of impending danger, they were liable\\nto be taken entirely by surprise. Boone was suffi-\\nciently acquainted with the Shawanese dialect to\\nunderstand every word they said, while he very\\nsagaciously had assumed, from the moment of his\\ncaptivity, that he was entirely ignorant of their lan-\\nguage.\\nBoone s anxiety was very great. He was com-\\npelled to assume a smiling face as he attended theif", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "202 DANIEL BOONE.\\nwar dances. Apparently unmoved, he listened to the\\ndetails of their plans for the surprise of the fort\\nIndeed, to disarm suspicion and to convince them\\nthat he had truly become one of their number, he\\ncooperated in giving efficiency to their hostile designs\\nagainst all he held most dear in the world.\\nIt had now become a matter of infinite moment\\nthat he should immediately escape and carry to his\\nfriends in the fort the tidings of their peril. But the\\nslightest unwary movement would have led the sus-\\npicious Indians so to redouble their vigilance as to\\nrender escape utterly impossible. So skilfully did\\nhfe conceal the emotions which agitated him, and so\\nsuccessfully did he feign entire contentment with his\\nlot, that his captors, all absorbed in the enterprise in\\nwhich they were engaged, remitted their ordinary\\nvigilance.\\nOn the morning of the sixteenth of June, Boone\\nrose very early to take his usual hunt. With his\\nsecreted ammunition, and the amount allowed him\\nby the Indians for the day, he hoped to be\\nable to save himself from starvation, during his\\nflight of five days through the pathless wilderness.\\nThere was a distance of one hundred and sixty miles\\nbetween Old Chilicothe and Boonesborough. The\\nmoment his flight should be suspected, four hundred\\nand fifty Indian warriors, breathing vengeancOp and", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "CAPTIVITY AND FLIGHT. 20^\\nin perfect preparation for the pursuit, would be on\\nhis track. His capture would almost certainly result\\nin his death by the most cruel tortures for the\\nInfuriated Indians would wreak upon him all their\\nvengeance\\nIt is however not probable that this silent, pensive\\nman allowed these thoughts seriously to disturb his\\nequanimity. An instinctive trust in God seemed to\\ninspire him. He was forty-three years of age. In\\nthe knowledge of wood-craft, and in powers of endur-\\nance, no Indian surpassed him. Though he would be\\npursued by sagacious and veteran warriors and by\\nyoung Indian braves, a pack of four hundred and\\nfifty savages following with keener scent than that\\nof the bloodhound, one poor victim, yet undismayed,\\nhe entered upon the appalling enterprise. The\\nhistory of the world perhaps presents but few feats\\nso difficult, and yet so successfully performed. And\\nyet the only record which this modest man makes, in\\nhis autobiography, of this wonderful adventure is as\\nfollows\\nOn the sixteenth, before sunrise, I departed in\\nthe most secret manner, and arrived at Boones*\\nborough on the twentieth, after a journey of one\\nhundred and sixty miles, during which I had but one\\nmeal.\\nIt was necessary, as soon as Boone got out of sight", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "204 DANIEL BOONE.\\nof the village, to fly with the utmost speed, to put as\\ngreat a distance as possible between himself and his\\npursuers, before they should suspect his attempt at\\nescape. He subsequently learned that as soon as the\\nIndians apprehended that he had actually fled, there\\nwas the most intense commotion in their camp, and\\nimmediately a large number of their fleetest runners\\nand keenest hunters were put upon his trail. He\\ndared not fire a gun. Had he killed any game he\\ncould not have ventured to kindle a fire to cook it.\\nHe had secretly provided himself with a few cuts of\\ndried venison with which he could appease his hunger\\nas he pressed forward by day and by night, scarcely\\nallowing himself one moment for rest or sleep. His\\nroute lay through forests and swamps, and across\\nmany streams swollen by recent rains.\\nAt length he reached the Ohio river. Its current\\nwas swift and turbid, rolling in a majestic flood half a\\nmile in width, filling the bed of the stream with\\nalmost fathomless waters from shore to shore. Ex-\\nperienced as Colonel Boone was in wood-craft, he was\\nnot a skilful swimmer. The thought of how he\\nshould cross the Ohio had caused him much anxiety\\nUpon reaching its banks he fortunately may we not\\nsay providentially found an old canoe which had\\ndrifted among the bushes upon the shore. There was\\na large hole at one end, and it was nearly filled with", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "CAPTIVITY AND FLIGHT. 205\\nwater. He succeeded in bailing out the water and\\nplugging up the hole, and crossed the river in safety.\\nThen for the first time he so far indulged in a feeling\\nof security as to venture to shoot a turkey, and kind-\\nling a fire he feasted abundantly upon the rich repast.\\nIt was the only meal in which he indulged during\\nhis flight of five days.\\nOn his arrival at Boonesborough, he was welcomed\\nas one risen from the grave. Much to his disappoint-\\nment he found that his wife with his children, des-\\npairing of ever seeing him again, had left the fort\\nand returned to the house of her father, in North\\nCarolina. She supposed that the Indians had killed\\nhim. Oppressed, writes Boone, with the distresses\\nof the country and bereaved of me, her only happi-\\nness, she had undertaken her long and perilous jour-\\nney through the wilderness. It is gratifying to\\nrecord that she reached her friends in safety.\\nBoone found the fort as he had apprehended, in a\\nbad state of defence. His presence, his military\\nskill, and the intelligence he brought, immediately\\ninspired every man to the intensest exertion. The\\ngates were strengthened, new bastions were formed,\\nand provisions were laid in, to stand a siege. Every-\\nthing was done which could be done to repel an\\nassault from they knew not how many savages, aided\\nby British leaders, for the band from old Chilicothe,\\n18", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "2o6 DA.NIEL BOONE.\\nwas to be joined by warriors from several othes\\ntribes. In ten days, Boonesborough was ready fof\\nthe onset. These arduous labors being completed,\\nBoone heroically resolved to strike consternation into\\nthe Indians, by showing them that he was prepared\\nfor aggressive as well as defensive warfare, and\\nthat they must leave behind them warriors for the\\nprotection of their own villages.\\nSelecting a small party of but nineteen men, about\\nthe first of August he emerged from Boonesborough,\\nmarched boldly to the Ohio, crossed the river, entered\\nthe valley of the Scioto, and was within four miles of\\nan Indian town, Paint Creek, which he intended to\\ndestroy, when he chanced to encounter a band of\\nthirty savages painted, thoroughly armed and on\\nthe war path, to join the band advancing from Old\\nChilicothe. The Indians were attacked with such\\nvehemence by Boone, that they fled in consternation,\\nleaving behind them three horses and all their\\nbaggage. The savages also lost one killed and two\\nwounded, while they inflicted no loss whatever upon\\nthe white men.\\nBoone sent forward some swift runners as spies, and\\nthey speedily returned with the report that the Indians\\nin a panic had entirely abandoned Paint Creek.\\nAware that the warriors would rush to join the four\\nhundred and fifty from Old Chilicothe, and that they", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "CAPTIVITY AND FLIGHT. 20/\\nmight cut off his retreat, or reach Boonesborough\\nbefore his return, he immediately commenced a rapid\\nmovement back to the fort. Every man would be\\nneeded there for an obstinate defence. This foray\\nhad extended one hundred and fifty miles from the\\nfort. It greatly alarmed the Indians. It emboldened\\nthe hearts of the garrison, and gave them intelligence\\nof the approach of their foes. After an absence of\\nbut seven days, Boone with his heroic little band\\nquite triumphantly re-entered the fort.\\nThe approach of the foe is described in the following\\nterms by Boone\\nOn the eighth of August, the Indian army arrived,\\nbeing four hundred and fbrtv-four in number, com-\\nmanded by Captain (puquesnd eleven other French-\\nmen and some of their own chiefs, and marched up\\nin view of our fort, with British and French colors\\nflying. And having sent a summons to me in His\\nBritannic Majesty s name to surrender the fort, 1\\nrequested two days consideration which was granted.\\nIt was now a critical period with us. We were a\\nsmall number in the garrison; a powerful army before\\nour walls, whose appearance proclaimed inevitable\\ndeath fearfully painted and marking their foot-\\nsteps with desolation. Death was preferable to cap-\\ntivity and if taken by storm, we must inevitably be\\ndevoted to destruction.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "208 DANIEL BOONE.\\nIn this situation we concluded to maintain out\\ngarrison if possible. We immediately proceeded to\\ncollect what we could of our horses and other cattle^\\nand bring them through the posterns into the fort;\\nand in the evening of the ninth, I returned the\\nanswer that we were determined to defend our fort\\nwhile a man was living.\\nNow, said I to their commander who stood\\nattentively hearing my sentiments, *we laugh at\\nyour formidable preparations, but thank you for\\ngiving us notice, and time for our defence. Your\\nefibrts will not prevail, for our gates shall forever\\ndeny you admitance.\\nWhether this answer affected their courage or\\nnot, I cannot tell, but contrary to our expectations,\\nthey formed a scheme to deceive us, declaring it was\\ntheir orders from Governor Hamilton to take us\\ncaptives, and not to destroy us but if nine of us would\\ncome out and treat with them, they would imme-\\ndiately withdraw their forces from our walls, and\\nreturn home peaceably. This sounded grateful in\\nour ears, and we agreed to the proposal.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nVictories and Defeats.\\nsituation of the Fort. Indian Treachery. Bombardment. Boodq\\ngoes to North Carolina. New Trials. Boone Bobbed. He\\nReturns to Kentucky. Massacre of Col. Rogers. Adventure ol\\nCol. Bowman. New Attack by the British and Indians. ^Re-\\ntaliatory Measures. ^Wonderful Exploit.\\nThere were but fifty men in the garrison at Boones-\\nborough. They were assailed by a body of more\\nthan ten to one of the bravest Indian warriors, under\\nthe command of an officer in the British army. The\\nboldest in the fort felt that their situation was almost\\ndesperate. The ferocity of the Indian, and the intel-\\nligence of the white man, were combined against\\nthem. They knew that the British commander,\\nhowever humane he might be, would have no power,\\nshould the fort be taken by storm, to save them from\\ndeath by the most horrible tortures.\\nGeneral Duquesne was acting under instructions\\nfrom Governor Hamilton, the British officer in su-\\npreme command at Detroit. Boone knew that the\\nGovernor felt very kindly towards him. When he\\nhad been carried to that place a captive, the Governor\\nhad made very earnest endeavors to obtain his libeiv\\n(209)", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "2ro DANIEL BOONE.\\nation. Influenced by these considerations, he consented\\nto hold the conference.\\nBut, better acquainted with the Indian character\\nthan perhaps Duquesne could have been, he selected\\nnine of the most athletic and strong of the garrison,\\nand appointed the place of meeting in front of the\\nfort, at a distance of only one hundred and twenty\\nfeet from the walls. The riflemen of the garrison\\nwere placed in a position to cover the spot with their\\nguns, so that in case of treachery the Indians would\\nmeet with instant punishment, and the retreat of the\\nparty from the fort would probably be secured. The\\nlanguage of Boone is\\nWe held a treaty within sixty yards of the garri-\\nson on purpose to divert them from a breach of\\nhonor, as we could not avoid suspicion of the savages.\\nThe terms proposed by General Duquesne were\\nextremely liberal. And while they might satisfy the\\nBritish party, whose object in the war was simply to\\nconquer the colonists and bring them back to loyalty,\\nthey could by no means have satisfied the Indians,\\nwho desired not merely to drive the white men back\\nfrom their hunting grounds, but to plunder them of\\ntheir possessions and to gratify their savage natures\\nby hearing the shrieks of their victims at the stake\\nand by carrying home the trophies of numerous\\nscalps.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "VICTORIES AND DEFEATS. 211\\nBoone and his men, buried in the depths of the\\nwilderness, had probably taken little interest in the\\ncontroversy which was just then rising between the\\ncolonies and the mother country. They had regarded\\nthe King of England as their lawful sovereign, and\\ntheir minds had never been agitated by the question\\nof revolution or of independence. When, therefore,\\nGeneral Duquesne proposed that they should take\\nthe oath of allegiance to the King of Great Britain,\\nand that then they should be permitted to return\\nunmolested to their homes and their friends beyond\\nthe mountains, taking all their possessions with them,\\nColonel Boone and his associates were very ready to\\naccept such terms. It justly appeared to them in\\ntheir isolated condition, five hundred miles away from\\nthe Atlantic coast, that this was vastly preferable to\\nremaining in the wilderness assailed by thousands of\\nIndians guided by English energy and abundantly\\nprovided with all the munitions of war from British\\narsenals.\\nBut Boone knew ver well that the Indians would\\nnever willingly assent to this treaty. Still he and hi\u00c2\u00bb\\nfellow commissioners signed it while very curious to\\nlearn how it would be regarded by their savage foes.\\nThe commissioners on both sides had appeared at\\nthe appointed place of conference, as is usual on such\\noccasions, entirely unarmed. There were, however, a", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "212 DANIEL BOONE.\\nlarge number of Indians lingering around and draw-\\ning nearer as the conference proceeded. After the\\ntreaty was signed, the old Indian chief Blackfish,\\nBoone s adopted father, and who, exasperated by the\\nescape of his ungrateful son, had been watching him\\nwith a very unamiable expression of countenance^\\narose and made a formal speech in the most approved\\nstyle of Indian eloquence. He commented upon the\\nbravery of the two armies, and of the desirableness\\nthat there should be entire friendship between them,\\nand closed by saying that it was a custom with them\\non all such important occasions to ratify the treaty\\nby two Indians shaking hands with each white man.\\nThis shallow pretense, scarcely up to the sagacity\\nof children, by which Blackfish hoped that two savages\\ngrappling each one of the commissioners would easily\\nbe able to make prisoners of them, and then by\\nthreats of torture compel the surrender of the fort^\\ndid not in the slightest degree deceive Colonel Boone.\\nHe was well aware of his own strength and of that of\\nthe men who accompanied him. He also knew that\\nhis riflemen occupied concealed positions, from which,\\nwith unerring aim, they could instantly punish the\\nsavages for any act of treachery. He therefore con-\\nsented to the arrangement. The grasp was given.\\nInstantly a terrible scene of confusion ensued.\\nThe burly savages tried to drag off their victim", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "VICTORIES AND DEFEATS. 21$\\nThe surrounding Indians rushed in to their aid, and a\\ndeadly fire was opened upon them from the fort,\\nwhich was energetically responded to by all the\\narmed savages from behind stumps and trees. One\\nof the fiercest of battles had instantly blazed forth.\\nStill these stalwart pioneers were not taken by sur-\\nprise. Aided by the bullets of the fort, they shook\\noff their assailants, and all succeeded in escaping\\nwithin the heavy gates, which were immediately closed\\nbehind them. One only of their number, Boone s\\nbrother, was wounded. This escape seems almost\\nmiraculous. But the majority of the Indians in intel-\\nligence were mere children sometimes very cunning,\\nbut often with the grossest stupidity mingled with\\ntheir strategy.\\nDuquesne and Blackfish, the associated leaders,\\nnow commenced the siege of the fort with all their\\nenergies. Dividing their forces into two parties, they\\nkept up an incessant fire upon the garrison for nine\\ndays and nine nights. It was one of the most heroic\\nof those bloody struggles between civilization and\\nbarbarism, which have rendered the plains of Ken-\\ntucky memorable.\\nThe savages were very careful not to expose them-\\nselves to the rifles of the besieged. They were\\nstationed behind rocks, and trees, and stumps, so\\nthat it was seldom that the garrison could catch eveo", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "214 DANIEL BOONE.\\na glimpse of the foes who were assailing them. It\\nwas necessary for those within the fort to be sparing\\nof their ammunition. They seldom fired unless they\\ncould take deliberate aim, and then the bullet was\\nalmost always sure to reach its mark. Colonel Boone,\\nin describing this attempt of the Indians to capture\\nthe commissioners by stratagem, writes\\nThey immediately grappled us, but, although\\nsurrounded by hundreds of savages, we extricated\\nourselves from them and escaped all safe into the\\ngarrison except one, who was wounded through a\\nheavy fire from their army. They immediately at-\\ntacked us on every side, and a constant heavy fire\\nensued between us, day and night, for the space of\\nnine days. In this time the enemy began to under-\\nmine our fort, which was situated about sixty yards\\nfrom the Kentucky river. They began at the watei\\nmark and proceeded in the bank some distance,\\nwhich we understood by their making the water\\nmuddy with the clay. We immediately proceeded to\\ndisappoint their design by cutting a trench across\\ntheir subterranean passage. The enemy discovering\\nour counter mine by the clay we threw out of the\\nfort, desisted from that stratagem. Experience now\\nfully convincing them that neither their power nor\\ntheir policy could effect their purpose, on the twentieth\\nof August they raised the siege and departed.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "VICTORIES AND DEFEATS- 215\\nDuring this siege, which threatened death in\\nevery form, we had two men killed and four wounded,\\nbesides a number of cattle. We killed of the enemy\\nthirty-seven and wounded a great number. After\\nthey were gone we picked up one hundred and twenty-\\nfive pounds weight of bullets, besides what stuck in\\nthe logs of our fort, which certainly is a great proof\\nof their industry.\\nIt is said that during this siege, one of the negroes,\\nprobably a slave, deserted from the fort with one of\\ntheir best rifles, and joined the Indians. Concealing\\nhimself in a tree, where unseen he could take deli-\\nberate aim, he became one of the most successful of\\nthe assailants. But the eagle eye of Boone detected\\nhim, and though, as was afterwards ascertained by\\nactual measurement, the tree was five hundred and\\ntwenty-five feet distant from the fort, Boone took\\ndeliberate aim, fired, and the man was seen to drop\\nheavily from his covert to the ground. The bullet\\nfrom Boone s rifle had pierced his brain.\\nAt one time the Indians had succeeded in setting\\niire to the fort, by throwing flaming combustibles\\nupon it, attached to their arrows. One of the young\\nmen extinguished the flames, exposing himself to\\nthe concentrated and deadly fire of the assailants in\\ndoing so. Though the bullets fell like hailstones\\naround him, the brave fellow escaped unscathed.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "2l6 DANIEL BOONE.\\nThis repulse quite disheartened the Indians,\\nHenceforth they regarded Boonesborough as a\\nGibraltar impregnable to any force which they could\\nbting against it. They never assailed it again.\\nThough Boonesborough is now but a small village in\\nKentucky, it has a history which will render it for~\\never memorable in the annals of heroism.\\nIt will be remembered that Boone s family, sup-\\nposing him to have perished by the hands of the\\nIndians, had returned to the home of Mrs. Boone s\\nfather in North Carolina. Colonel Boone, anxious to\\nrejoin his wife and children, and feeling that Boones-\\nborough was safe from any immediate attack by the\\nIndians, soon after the dispersion of the savages\\nentered again upon the long journey through the\\nwilderness, to find his friends east of the mountains.\\nIn the autumn of 1778, Colonel Boone again found\\nhimself, after all his wonderful adventures, in a peace-\\nful home on the banks of the Yadkin.\\nThe settlements in Kentucky continued rapidly to\\nincrease. The savages had apparently relinquished all\\nhope of holding exclusive possession of the country.\\nThough there were occasional acts of violence and\\ncruelty, there was quite a truce in the Indian warfare.\\nBut the white settlers, and those who wished to\\nemigrate, were greatly embarrassed by conflicting\\nland claims. Many of the pioneers found their titlei", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "VICTORIES AND DEFEATS 2lf\\npronounced to be of no validity. Others who wished\\nto emigrate, experienced great difficulty in obtaining\\nsecure possession of their lands. The reputation of\\nKentucky as in all respects one of the most desirable\\nof earthly regions for comfortable homes, added to\\nthe desire of many families to escape from the\\nhorrors of revolutionary war, which was sweeping\\nthe seaboard, led to a constant tide of emigration\\nbeyond the mountains.\\nUnder these circumstances the Government of\\nVirginia established a court, consisting of four\\nprominent citizens, to go from place to place,\\nexamine such titles as should be presented to them,\\nand to confirm those which were good. This com-\\nmission commenced its duties at St. Asaphs. All\\nthe old terms of settlement proposed by Henderson\\nand the Transylvania Company were abrogated.\\nThus Colonel Boone had no title to a single acre of\\nland in Kentucky. A new law however was enacted\\nas follows\\nAny person may acquire title to so much unap-\\npropriated land, as he or she may desire to purchase,\\non paying the consideration of forty pounds for every\\none hundred acres, and so in proportion.\\nThis money was to be paid to the State Treasurer,\\nwho would give for it a receipt. This receipt was to\\nbe deposited with the State Auditor, who would in\\n19", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "2l8 DANIEL BOONE.\\nexchange for it give a certificate. This certificate\\nwas to be lodged at the Land Office. There it was\\nto be registered, and a warrant was to be given,\\nauthorizing the survey of the land selected. Sur-\\nveyors who had passed the ordeal of William and\\nMary College, having defined the boundaries of the\\nland, were to make a return to the Land Office. A\\ndue record was there to be made of the survey, a deed\\nwas to be given in the name of the State, which deed\\nwas to be signed by the Governor, with the seal of the\\nCommonwealth attached.\\nThis was a perplexing labyrinth for the pioneer to\\npass through, before he could get a title to his land.\\nNot only Colonel Boone, but it seems that his family\\nwere anxious to return to the beautiful fields of\\nKentucky. During the few months he remained on\\nthe Yadkin, he was busy in converting every particle\\nof property he possessed into money, and in raising\\nevery dollar he could for the purchase of lands he\\nso greatly desired. The sum he obtained amounted\\nto about twenty thousand dollars, in the depreciated\\npaper currency of that day. To Daniel Boone this\\nwas a large sum. With this the simple-hearted\\nman started for Richmond to pay it to the State\\nTreasurer, and to obtain for it the promised certificate\\nHe was also entrusted with quite large sums of money\\nfrom his neighbors, foi a similar purpose.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "VICTORIES AND DEFEATS. 219\\nOn his way he was robbed of every dollar. It was\\na terrible blow to him, for it not only left him\\npenniless, but exposed him to the insinuation of\\nhaving feigned the robbery, that he might retain the\\nmoney entrusted to him by his friends. Those who\\nknew Daniel Boone well would have no more suspected\\nhim of fraud than an angel of light. With others\\nhowever, his character suffered. Rumor was busy in\\ndenouncing him.\\nColonel Nathaniel Hart had entrusted Boone with\\ntwo thousand nine hundred pounds. This of course\\nwas all gone. A letter, however, is preserved from\\nColonel Hart, which bears noble testimony to the\\ncharacter of the man from whom he had suffered\\nI observe what you say respecting our losses by\\nDaniel Boone. I had heard of the misfortune so^\\nafter it happened, but not of my being a partaker\\nbefore now. I feel for the poor people who perhaps\\nare to lose their pre-emptions. But I must say I feel\\nmore for Boone, whose character I am told suffers\\nby it. Much degenerated must the people of this\\nage be, when amongst them are to be found men to\\ncensure and blast the reputation of a person so just\\nand upright, and in whose breast is a seat of virtue\\ntoo pure to admit of a thought so base and dishonor-\\nable. I have known Boone in times oi old, when\\npoverty and distress had him fast by the hand, and", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "220 DANIEL BOONE.\\nin these wretched circumstances, I have ever found\\nhim of a noble and generous soul, despising every*\\nthing mean, and therefore I will freely grant him a\\ndischarge for whatever sums of mine he might have\\nbeen possessed at the time.\\nBoone was now forty-five years of age, but the\\nnardships to which he had been exposed had borne\\nheavily upon him, and he appeared ten years older.\\nThough he bore without a murmur the loss of his\\nearthly all, and the imputations which were cast upon\\nhis character, he was more anxious than ever to find\\nrefuge from the embarrassments which oppressed\\nhim in the solitudes of his beautiful Kentucky.\\nNotwithstanding his comparative poverty, his family\\non the banks of the Yadkin need not experience any\\nwant. Land was fertile, abundant and cheap. He\\nand his boys in a few days, with their axes, could\\nerect as good a house as they desired to occupy. The\\ncultivation of a few acres of the soil, and the results\\nof the chase, would provide them an ample support\\nHere also they could retire to rest at night, with\\nunbolted door and with no fear that their slumbera\\nwould be disturbed by the yell of the blood-thirsty\\nsavage.\\nThe witc and mother must doubtless have wished\\nto remain in her pleasant home, but cheerfully and\\nnobly she acceded to his wishes, and was ready to", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "VICTORIES AND DEFEATS. 221\\naccompany him to all the abounding perils of the\\ndistant West. Again the family set out on its jour-\\nney across the mountains. Of the incidents which\\nthey encountered, we are not informed. The narrative\\nwe have from Boone is simply as follows our readers\\nwill excuse the slight repetition it involves\\nAbout this time I returned to Kentucky with my\\nfamily. And here, to avoid an enquiry into my\\nconduct, the reader being before informed of my\\nbringing my family to Kentucky, T am under the\\nnecessity of informing him that during my captivity\\nwith the Indians, my wife, who despaired of ever\\nseeing me again, had transported my family and\\ngoods back through the wilderness, amid a multitude\\nof dangers, to her father s house in North Carolina.\\nShortly after the troubles at Boonesborough, I went to\\nthem and lived peaceably there until this time. The\\nhistory of my going home and returning with my\\nfamily forms a series of difficulties, an account of\\nwhich would swell a volume. And being foreign to\\nmy purpose I shall omit them.\\nDuring Boone s absence from Kentuclcy, one of the\\nmost bloody battles was fought, which ever occurred\\nbetween the whites and the Indians. Colonel Rogers,\\nreturning with supplies (by boat) from New Orleans\\nto the Upper Ohio, when he arrived at the mouth of\\nthe Little Miami, detected the Indians in large", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "222 DANIEL BOONE.\\nnumbers, painted, armed, and evidently on the waf\\npath, emerging from the mouth of the river in theif\\ncanoes, and crossing the Ohio to the Kentucky shore.\\nHe cautiously landed his men, intending to attack the\\nIndians by surprise. Instead of this, they turned upon\\nhim with overwhelming numbers, and assailed him\\nwith the greatest fury. Colonel Rogers and sixty of\\nhis men vv^ere almost instantly killed. This constituted\\nnearly the whole of his party. Two or three effected\\ntheir escape, and conveyed the sad tidings of the\\nmassacre to the settlements.\\nThe Kentuckians were exceedingly exasperated,\\nand resolved that the Indians should feel the weight\\nof their vengeance. Colonel Bowman, in accordance\\nwith a custom of the times, issued a call, inviting all\\nthe Kentuckians who were willing to volunteer under\\nhis leadership for the chastisement of the Indians, to\\nrendezvous at Harrodsburg. Three hundred deter-\\nmined men soon assembled. -The expedition moved\\nin the month of July, and commenced the ascent of\\nthe Little Miami undiscovered. They arrived in the\\nvicinity of Old Chilicothe just before nightfall. Here\\nit was determined so to arrange their forces in the\\ndarkness, as to attack the place just before the dawn\\nof the ensuing day. One half of the army, under the\\ncommand of Colonel Logan, were to grope their way\\nthrough the woods, and march around the town so as", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "VICTORIES AND DEFEATS. 223\\nto attack it in the rear, at a given signal from\\nColonel Bowman, who was to place his men in position\\nfor efficient cooperation. Logan accomplished his\\nmovement, and concealing his men behind stumps\u00c2\u00bb\\ntrees, and rocks, anxiously awaited the signal for\\nattack.\\nBut the sharp ear of a watch-dog detected some\\nunusual movement, and commenced barking furiously.\\nAn Indian warrior came from his cabin, and cautiously\\nadvanced the way the dog seemed to designate. As\\nthe Indian drew near, one of the party, by accident\\nor great imprudence, discharged his gun. The Indian\\ngave a war-whoop, which immediately startled all the\\ninmates of the cabins to their feet. Logan and his\\nparty were sufficiently near to see the women and the\\nchildren in a continuous line rushing over the ridge,\\nto the protection of the forest.\\nThe Indian warriors instantly collected in several\\nstrong cabins, which were their citadels, and from\\nwhose loop-holes, unexposed, they could open a\\ndeadly fire upon their assailants. In an instant, the\\nwhole aspect of affairs was changed. The assailants\\nadvancing through the clearing, must expose their\\nunprotected breasts to the bullets of an unseen foe\\nAfter a brief conflict, Colonel Logan, to his bittef\\ndisappointment and that of his men, felt constrained\\nto order a retreat", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "224 DANIEL BOONE.\\nThe two parties were soon reunited, having lost\\nseveral valuable lives, and depressed by the conviction\\nthat the enterprise had proved an utter failure. The\\nsavages pursued, keeping up a harassing fire upon the\\nrear of the fugitives. Fortunately for the white men,\\nthe renowned Indian chieftain Blackfish, struck by\\na bullet, was instantly killed. This so disheartened\\nhis followers, that they abandoned the pursuit. The\\nfugitives continued their flight all the night, and then\\nat their leisure returned to their homes much dejected.\\nIn this disastrous expedition, nine men were killed\\nand one was severely wounded.\\nThe Indians, aided by their English allies, resolved\\nby the invasion of Kentucky to retaliate for the\\ninvasion of the Little Miami. Governor Hamilton\\nraised a very formidable army, and supplied them\\nwith two pieces of artillery. By such weapons the\\nstrongest log fort could speedily be demolished;\\nwhile the artillerists would be entirely beyond the\\nreach of the guns of the garrison. A British officer,\\nColonel Boyd, commanded the combined force. The\\nvalley of the Licking River, along whose banks many\\nthriving settlements had commenced, was their point\\nof destination.\\nA twelve days march from the Ohio brought this\\nanny, which was considered a large one in those times,\\nto a post called Kuddle s Station. The garrison was", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "VICTORIES AND DEFEATS. 22$\\nImmediately summoned to surrender, with the promise\\nof protection for their lives only. Resistance against:\\nartillery was hopeless. The place was surrendered..\\nIndians and white men rushed in, alike eager for\\nplunder. The Indians, breaking loose from all\\nrestraint, caught men, women and children, and\\nclaimed them as their prisoners. Three persons\\nwho made some slight resistance were immediately\\ntomahawked.\\nThe British commander endeavored to exonerate\\nhimself from these atrocities by saying that it was\\nutterly beyond his power to control the savages.\\nThese wolfish allies, elated by their conquest, their\\nplunder and their captives, now demanded to be led\\nalong the valley five miles to the next station, called\\nMartin s Fort. It is said that Colonel Byrd was so\\naffected by the uncontrollable atrocities he had\\nwitnessed, that he refused to continue the expedition,\\nunless the Indians would consent, that while they\\nshould receive all the plunder, he should have all the\\nprisoners. It is also said that notwithstanding this\\nagreement, the same scenes were enacted at Martin t\\nFort which had been witnessed at Ruddle s Station.\\nIn confirmation of this statement, it is certain that\\nColonel Byrd refused to go any farther. All the\\nstations on the river vere apparently at his disposal,,\\nand it speaks well for his humanity that he refused to", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "226 DANIEL BOONE.\\nlead any farther savages armed with the tomahawk\\nand the scalping knife, against his white brethrea\\nHe could order a retreat, as he did, but he could not\\nrescue the captives from those who had seized them.\\nThe Indians loaded down their victims with the\\nplunder of their own dwellings, and as they fell by\\nthe way, sinking beneath their burdens, they buried\\nthe tomahawk in their brains.\\nThe exasperation on both sides was very great,\\nand General Clark, who was stationed at Fort\\nJefferson with a thousand picked men, entered the\\nIndian territory, burned the villages, destroyed the\\ncrops, and utterly devastated the country. In refer-\\nence to this expedition, Mr. Cecil B. Hartley writes\\nSome persons who have not the slightest objection\\nto war, very gravely express doubts as to whether the\\nexpedient of destroying the crops of the Indians was\\njustifiable. It is generally treated by these men as if\\nit were a wanton display of a vindictive spirit,\\nwhere in reality it was dictated by the soundest\\npolicy for when the Indians harvests were destroy-\\ned, they were compelled to subsist their families\\naltogether by hunting, and had no leisure for their\\nmurderous inroads into the settlements. This result\\nwas plainly seen on this occasion, for it does not\\nappear that the Indians attacked any of the settle-\\nments during the remainder of this year.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "VICTORIES AND DEFEATS. 22/\\nThe following incident, well authenticated, which\\noccurred early in the spring of 1780, gives one a\\nvivid idea of the nature of this warfare\\nMr. Alexander McConnel of Lexington, while out\\nhunting, killed a large buck. He went home for\\nhis horse to bring it in. While he was absent, five\\nIndians accidentally discovered the body of the deer.\\nSupposing the hunter would return, three of them\\nhid themselves within rifle shot of the carcass while\\ntwo followed his trail. McConnel, anticipating no\\ndanger, was riding slowly along the path, when he\\nwas fired upon from ambush, his horse shot beneath\\nhim, and he seized as a prisoner. His captors were\\nin high glee, and treated him with unusual kindness.\\nHis skill with the rifle excited their admiration, and\\nas he provided them with abundance of game, they\\nsoon became quite fond of him. Day after day the\\nsavages continued their tramp to the Ohio river, to\\ncross over to their own country. Every night they\\nbound him very strongly. As they became better\\nacquainted, and advanced farther from the settle-\\nments of the pioneers, they in some degree remitted\\ntheir vigilance. One evening when they had arrived\\nnear the Ohio, McConnel complained so earnestly 0/\\nthe pain which the tightly bound cords gave him,\\nthat they more loosely fastened the cord of bufialo\\nhide around his wrists. Still they tied it, as they", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "228 DANIEL BOONE.\\nsupposed securely, and attached the end of the cord\\nto the body of one of the Indians.\\nAt midnight, McConnel discovered a sharp knife\\nlying near him, which had accidentally fallen from\\nits sheat. He drew it to him with his feet, and suc-\\nceeded noiselessly in cutting the cords. Still he\\nhardly dared to stir, for there was danger that the\\nslightest movement might rouse his vigilant foes.\\nThe savages had stacked their five guns near the fire.\\nCautiously he crept towards them, and secreted three\\nat but a short distance where they would not easily\\nfind them. He then crept noiselessly back, took a\\nrifle in each hand, rested the muzzles upon a log, and\\naiming one at the heart, and one at the head of two\\nIndians at the distance of a few feet, discharged both\\nguns simultaneously.\\nBoth shots were fatal. The three remaining savageb\\nin bewilderment sprang to their feet. McConnel\\ninstantly seizing the two other guns, shot one through\\nthe heart, and inflicted a terrible wound upon the\\nother. He fell to the ground bellowing loudly. Soon\\nhowever he regained his feet and hobbled off into the\\nwoods as fast as possible. The only remaining one\\nof the party who was unhurt uttered a loud yell of\\nterror and dismay, and bounded like a deer into the\\nforest. McConnel was not disposed to remain even\\nfor one moment to contemplate the result of his", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "VICTORIES AND DEFEATS.\\n229\\nachievement. He selected his own trusty rifle, plunged\\ninto the forest, and with the unerring instinct of the\\nveteran hunter, in two days reacned the garrison at\\nLexington to relate to them his wonderful escape.\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a23^", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X\\nBritish Allies,\\nDeath of Squire Boone. Indian Outrages. Gerty and McGee.\\nBattle of Blue Lick. Death of Isaac Boone. Colonel Boone s\\nNarrow Escape. Letter of Daniel Boone. Determination of\\nGeneral Clarke. Discouragement of the Savages. Amusing\\nAnecdote of Daniel Boone.\\nIt was in the autumn of the year 1780 that Daniel\\nBoone, with his family, returned to Boonesborough\u00c2\u00ab\\nA year before, the Legislature of Virginia had recog-\\nnized essentially what is now Kentucky as one of the\\ncounties of Virginia, and had established the town of\\nBoonesborough as its capital. By this act Daniel\\nBoone was named one of the trustees or selectmen.\\nTown lots were ordered to be surveyed, and a very\\nliberal grant of land was conferred upon every one\\nwho would erect a house at least sixteen feet square,\\nwith either brick, stone, or dirt chimney. For some\\nreason Colonel Boone declined this office. It is\\nprobable that he was disgusted by his own experience\\ntn the civil courts.\\nThere was little danger now of an attack upon\\nBoonesborough by the Indians. There were so many\\nsettlements around it that no foe could approach\\n(230)", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "BRITISH ALLIES. 23I\\nWithout due warning and without encountering serious\\nopposition. On the sixth of October Daniel Boone,\\nwith his brother Squire, left the fort alone for what\\nwould seem to be an exceedingly imprudent excursion,\\n50 defenceless, to the Blue Licks. They reached the\\nLicks in safety. While there they were discovered by\\na party of Indians, and were fired upon from ambush.\\nSquire Boone was instantly killed and scalped. Daniel,\\nheart-stricken by the loss of his beloved b-other, fled\\nlike a deer, pursued by the whole band, filling the\\nforest with their yells like a pack of hounds. The\\nIndians had a very powerful dog with them, who,\\nwith unerring scent, followed closely in the trail of\\nthe fugitive. For three miles this unequal chase con-\\ntinued. The dog, occasionally embarrassed in his\\npursuit, would be delayed for a time in regaining the\\ntrail. The speed of Boone was such that the foremost\\nof the savages was left far behind. He then, as the\\ndog came bounding on, stopped, took deliberate aim,\\nand shot the brute.\\nBoone was still far from the fort, but he reached it\\nin safety, leaving upon the Indians the impression\\n^at he bore a charmed life. He was very deeply\\nafflicted by the death of his brother. Squire was the\\nyoungest of the sons, and the tie which bound the\\nbrothers together was unusually tender and confiden-\\ntial. They had shared in many perilous adventures.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "232 DANIEL BOONE.\\nand for months had dwelt entirely alone in the wilder*\\nness, far away from any other society.\\nThe winter of 1780 was one of the saddest in the\\nannals of our country. The colonial army, every-\\nwhere defeated, was in the most deplorable state of\\ndestitution and suffering. Our frontiers were most\\ncruelly ravaged by a barbarian foe. To add to all\\nthis, the winter was severely cold, beyond any prece-\\ndent. The crops had been so destroyed by the\\nenemy that many of the pioneers were compelled to\\nlive almost entirely upon the flesh of the buffalo.\\nVirginia, in extending her jurisdiction over her\\nwestern lands of Kentucky, now, for the sake of a\\nmore perfect military organization, divided the exten-\\nsive region into three counties Fayette, Lincoln,\\nand Jefferson. General Clarke was made commander-\\nin-chief of the Kentucky militia. Daniel Boone was\\ncommissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel of Lincoln\\nCounty. The emigration into the State at this time\\nmay be inferred from the fact that the Court of Com-\\nmissioners to examine land titles, at the close of its\\nsession of seven months had granted three thousand\\nclaims. Its meetings had been held mainly at\\nBoonesborough, and its labors terminated in April,\\n1780. During the spring three hundred barges,\\nloaded with emigrants, were floated down the Ohia\\nto the Falls, at what is now Louisville.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "BRITISH ALLIES. 233\\nAs we have stated, the winter had been one of the\\nmost remarkable on record. From the middle of\\nNovember to the middle of February, the ground was\\ncovered with snow and ice, without a thaw. The\\nseverity of the cold was terrible. Nearly all unpro-\\ntected animals perished. Even bears, buffalo, wolves,\\nand wild turkeys were found frozen in the woods.\\nThe starving wild animals often came near the settle-\\nment for food. For seventy-five years the winter of\\n1780 was an era to which the old men referred.\\nThough the Indians organized no formidable raids,\\nthey were very annoying. No one could safely wan-\\nder any distance from the forts. In March, 1 78 1,\\nseveral bands entered Jefferson County, and by lying\\nin ambush killed four of the settlers. Captain Whit-\\ntaker, with fifteen men, went in pursuit of them. He\\nfollowed their trail to the banks of the Ohio. Sup-\\nposing they had crossed, he and his party embarked\\nin canoes, boldly to continue the pursuit into the\\nIndian country. They had scarcely pushed a rod\\nfrom the shore when hideous yells rose from the\\nIndians in ambush, and a deadly fire was opened\\nupon the canoes Nine of the pioneers were instantly\\nkilled or wounded. The savages, having accom-\\nplished this feat, fled into the wilderness, where the\\nparty, thus weakened in numbers, could not pursue\\nthem.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "234 DANIEL BOONE.\\nA small party of settlers had reared their log-huts\\nnear the present site of Shelbyville. Squire Boone\\nhad been one of the prominent actors in the estab-\\nlishment of this little colony. Alarmed by the\\nmenaces of the savages, these few settlers decided to\\nremove to a more secure station on Bear s Creek.\\nOn their way they were startled by the war-whoop of\\nthey knew not how many Indians concealed in am-\\nbush, and a storm of bullets fell upon them, killing\\nand wounding many of their number. The miscreants,\\nscarcely waiting for the return fire, fled with yells\\nwhich resounded through the forest, leaving their\\nvictims to the sad task of burying the dead and\\nnursing the wounded. Colonel Floyd collected twen-\\nty-five men to pursue them The wary Indians,\\ni:early two hundred in number, drew them into an\\nambush and opened upon the party a deadly fire\\nwhich almost instantly killed half their number. The\\nremainder with great difficulty escaped, leaving\\ntheir dead to be mutilated by the scalping knife of\\nthe savage.\\nAlmost every day brought tidings of similar disas*\\nters. The Indians, emboldened by these successes,\\nseemed to rouse themselves to a new determination\\nto exterminate the whites. The conduct of the\\nBritish Government, in calling such wretches to their\\nalliance in theii war with the colonies, created th*", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "BRITISH ALLIES. 235\\ngreatest exasperation. Thomas Jefferson gave ex-\\npression to the public sentiment in the Declaration of\\nIndependence, in which he says, in arraignment of\\nKing George the Third\\nHe has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of\\nour frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose\\nknown rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruc-\\ntion of all ages, sexes, and conditions.\\nThere were two wretched men, official agents of\\nthe British Government, who were more savage than\\nthe savages themselves. One of them, a vagabond\\nnamed Simon Gerty, had joined the Indians by\\nadoption. He had not only acquired their habits,\\nbut had become their leader in the most awful scenes\\nof ferocity. He was a tory, and as such was the\\nbitterest foe of the colonists, who were struggling for\\nindependence. The other. Colonel McGee, with a\\nlittle more respectability of character, was equally\\nfiendlike in exciting the Indians to the most revolting\\nbarbarities. Thus incited and sustained by British\\nauthority, the Indians kept all the settlers in Ken*\\ntucky in constant alarm.\\nInstigated by the authorities at Detroit, the wai-\\nriors of five tribes assembled at Old Chiiicothe to\\norganize the most formidable expedition which had\\nas yet invaded Kentucky. These tribes were the\\nShawanese on the Little Miami, the Cherokees on the", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "236 DANIEL BOONE.\\nTennessee, the Wyandot ts on the Sandusky^ the\\nTawas on the Maumee, and the Delawares on the\\nMuskingum.\\nTheir choicest warriors, five hundred in number,\\nrendezvoused at Old Chilicothe. This Indian village\\nwas built in the form of a square enclosing a large\\narea. Some of their houses were of logs, some of\\nbark, some of reeds filled in with clay. Boone says\\nthat the Indians concentrated their utmost force and\\nvengeance upon this expedition, hoping to destroy\\nthe settlements and to depopulate the country at a\\nsingle blow.\\nNot far from Boonesborough, in the same valley\\nof the Kentucky, there was a small settlement called\\nBryant s Station. William Bryant, the founder, had\\nmarried a sister of Colonel Boone. On the fifteenth\\nof August, a war party of five hundred Indians and\\nCanadians, under the leadership of Simon Gerty,\\nappeared before this little cluster of log-huts, each of\\nwhich was of course bullet-proof. The settlers fought\\nheroically. Gerty was wounded, and thirty of his\\nband were killed, while the garrison lost but four.\\nThe assailing party, thus disappointed in their ex*\\npectation of carrying the place by storm, and fearing\\nthe arrival of reinforcements from other settlements,\\nhastily retired. Colonel Boone, hearing of the attack,\\nhastened to the rescue, joining troops from several", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "BRITISH ALLIES. 237\\nthe adjacent forts. The party consisted of one hun-\\ndred and eighty men, under the leadership of Colonel\\nTodd, one of nature s noblemen. Colonel Boone\\nseems to have been second in command. Two of his\\nsons, Israel and Samuel, accompanied their father\\nupon this expedition.\\nThe Indians, led by British officers, were far more\\nto be dreaded than when left to their own cunning,\\nwhich was often childish. As the little band of\\npioneers, rushing to the rescue, approached Bryant s\\nStation and were informed of the retreat of the\\ninvaders, a council of war was held, to decide whether\\nit were best for a hundred and eighty men to pursue\\nfive hundred Indians and Canadians, through a region\\nwhere every mile presented the most favorable oppor-\\ntunities for concealment in ambush. Gerty was a\\ndesperado who was to be feared as well as hated.\\nContrary to the judgment of both Colonels Todd\\nand Boone, it was decided to pursue the Indians.\\nThere was no difficulty in following the trail of so\\nlarge a band, many of whom were mounted. Their\\npath led almost directly north, to the Licking River,\\nand then followed down its banks tov/ards the Ohio,\\nAs the pursuers were cautiously advancing, they\\ncame to a remarkable bend in the stream, where\\nthere was a large and open space, with prairie grass\\nvery high. A well trampled buffalo track led throuorh", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "238 DANIEL BOONE.\\nthis grass, which was almost like a forest of reeds,\\nAlong this street the Indians had retreated. The\\nscouts who had been sent forward to explore, returned\\nwith the report that there were no signs of Indians.\\nAnd yet, four hundred savages had so adroitly con-\\ncealed themselves, that their line really extended from\\nbank to bank of the river, where it bent like a horse-\\nshoe before them. The combined cunning of the\\nIndian, and the intelligence of their white leaders, was\\nnow fatally enlisted for the destruction of the settlers.\\nA hundred and eighty men were to be caught in a\\ntrap, with five hundred demons prepared to shoot them\\ndown.\\nAs soon as Colonel Todd s party passed the neck\\nof this bend, the Indians closed in behind them, rose\\nfrom their concealment, and with terrific yells opened\\nupon them a still more terrific fire. The pioneers\\nfought with the courage of desperation. At the first\\ndischarge, nearly one third of Colonel Todd s little\\nparty fell dead or wounded. Struck fatally by several\\nbullets, Colonel Todd himself fell from his horse\\ndrenched with blood. While a portion of the Indians\\nkept up the fire, others, with hideous yells sprang\\nforward with tomahawk and scalping knife, completing\\ntheir fiendlike work. It was a scene of awful con-\\nfusion and dismay. The survivors fighting every step\\nof the way, retreated towards the river, for there was", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "BRITISH ALLIES. 239\\nno er\u00c2\u00bbcape back through their thronging foes. Co onel\\nBoone s two sons fought by the side of their father.\\nSamuel, the younger, struck by a bullet, was severely\\nbiit not mortally wounded. Isaac, his second son, fell\\ndead. The unhappy father took his dead boy upon\\nhis shoulders to save him from the scalping knife.\\nAs he tottered beneath the bleeding body, an Indian\\nof herculean stature with uplifted tomahawk rushed\\nupon him. Colonel Boone dropped the body of his\\nson, shot the Indian through the heart, and seeing\\nthe savages rushing upon him from all directions,\\nfled, leaving the corpse of his boy to its fate.\\nBeing intimately acquainted with the ground, he\\nplunged into a ravine, baffling several parties who\\npursued him, swam across the river, and entering the\\nforest succeeded in escaping from his foes, and at\\nlength safely by a circuitous route returned to Bryant s\\nStation. In the meantime the scene of tumult and\\nslaughter was awful beyond all description. Victors\\nand vanquished were blended together upon the banks\\nof the stream. In this dreadful conflict there were\\nfour Indians to each white man. There was a narrow\\nford at the spot, but the whole stream seemed clogged,\\nsome swimming and some trying to wade, while the\\nexultant Indians shot and tomahawked without\\nmercy. Those who succeeded in crossing the river,\\nleaving the great buffalo track which they had been", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "240 DANIEL BOONE.\\nfollowing, plunged into the thickets, and though\\nvigorously pursued by the Indians, most of them\\neventually reached the settlements.\\nIn this dreadful disaster, the colonists lost sixty\\nmen in killed and seven were taken prisoners. The\\nIndians in counting up their loss, found that sixty-\\nfour were missing. In accordance with their barbaric\\ncustom, they selected in vengeance four of the pri-\\nsoners and put them to death by the most terrible\\ntortures which savage ingenuity could devise. Had\\nColonel Boone s advice been followed, this calamity\\nmight have been avoided. Still characteristically, he\\nuttered not a word of complaint. In his comments\\nupon the event he says\\nI cannot reflect upon this dreadful scene but\\nsorrow fils my heart. A zeal for the defence of\\ntheir country led these heroes to the scene of action,\\nthough with a few men to attack a powerful army of\\nexperienced warriors. When we gave way, they\\npursued us with the utmost eagerness, and in every\\nquarter spread destruction. The river was difficult\\nto cross, and many were killed in the flight some\\njust entering the river, some in the water, others after\\ncrossing, in ascending the clifis. Some escaped on\\nhorseback, a few on foot and being dispersed every-\\nwhere in a few hours, brought the melancholy news\\nof this unfortunate conflict to Lexington. The readei", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "BRITISH ALLIES. 24I\\nmay guess what sorrow filled the hearts of the\\ninhabitants exceeding anything I am able to des-\\ncribe. Being reinforced we returned to bury the\\ndead, and found their bodies strewed everywhere,\\ncut and mangled in a dreadful manner. This mourn-\\nful scene exhibited a horror almost unparalleled\\nsome torn and eaten by wild beasts those in the\\nriver eaten by fishes all in such a putrified condition\\nthat no one could be distinguished from another.\\nThis battle of the Blue Licks, as it is called,\\noccupies one of the most mournful pages in the history\\nof Kentucky. The escape of Boone adds another to\\nthe extraordinary adventures of this chivalric and\\nnow sorrow-stricken man. Colonel Boone communi-\\ncated an official report to the Governor of Virginia,\\nBenjamin Harrison, father of William Henry Harri-\\nson, subsequently President of the United States.\\nIn this report, it is noticeable that Boone makes no\\nallusion whatever to his own services. This modest\\ndocument throws such light upon the character of\\nthis remarkable man, and upon the peril of the\\ntimes, that it merits full insertion here. It is as\\nfollows\\nBoone s Station, Fayette Co., Aug. 30, 1782.\\nSir, Present circumstances of affairs cause me to\\nwrite to Your Excellency, as follows On the\\n21", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "242 DANIEL BOONE.\\nsixteenth instant, a large body of Indians, with some\\nwhite men, attacked one of our frontier stations,\\nknown as Bryant s Station. The siege continued\\nfrom about sunrise until two o clock of the next day,\\nwhen they marched off. Notice being given to the\\nneighboring stations, we immediately raised one hun-\\ndred and eighty-one horsemen, commanded by CoL\\nJohn Todd, including some of the Lincoln County\\nmilitia, and pursued about forty miles.\\nAfter a brief account of the battle which we have\\nalready given, he continues\\nAfterwards we were reinforced by Colonel Logan,\\nwhich made our force four hundred and sixty men.\\nWe marched again to the battle ground, but finding\\nthe enemy had gone, we proceeded to bury the dead.\\nWe found forty-three on the ground, and many lay\\nabout which we could not stay to find, hungry and\\nweary as we were, and dubious that the enemy might\\nnot have gone off quite. By the sign, we thought\\nthat the Indians exceeded four hundred, while the\\nwhole of the militia of the county does not amount to\\nmore than one hundred and thirty.\\nFrom these facts, Your Excellency may form an\\nidea of our situation. I know that your own circum-\\nstances are critical but are we to be wholly forgotten\\nI hope not. I trust that about five hundred men may\\nbe sent to our assistance immediately. If these shall", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "BRITISH ALLIES. 243\\nbe stationed as our county lieutenant shall deem\\nnecessary, it may be the means of saving our part of\\n,the country. But if they are placed under the direc-\\ntion of General Clarke, they will be of little or no\\nservice to our settlement. The Falls lie one hundred\\nmiles west of us, and the Indians north-east while\\nour men are frequently called to protect them.\\nI have encouraged the people in this county all\\nthat I could but I can no longer justify them or\\nmyself to risk our lives here, under such extraordinary\\nhazards. The inhabitants of this county are very\\nmuch alarmed at the thoughts of the Indians bringing\\nanother campaign into our country this fall. If this\\nshould be the case, it will break up these settlements.\\nI hope therefore that Your Excellency will take the\\nmatter into your consideration, and send us some\\nrelief as quick as possible. These are my sentiments\\nwithout consulting any person. Colonel Logan will\\nI expect immediately send you an express, by whom\\nI humbly request Your Excellency s answer. In the\\nmeantime, I remain yours, c., Daniel Boone.\\nGeneral Clarke, who was the military leader of\\nKentucky under the Colonial government, was estab-\\nlished at the Falls. The British authorities held their\\nhead-quarters at Detroit, from which post they were\\nsending out their Indian allies in all directions to\\nravage the frontiers. General Clarke was a man of", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "244 DANIEL BOONE.\\ngreat energy of character, and he was anxious to\\norganise an expedition against Detroit With this\\nobject in view, he had by immense exertions assem-\\nbled a force of nearly two thousand men. Much to\\nhis chagrin, he received orders to remain at the Falls\\nfor the present, to protect the frontiers then so se-\\nverely menaced. But when the tidings reached him\\nof the terrible disaster at the Blue Lick, he resolved to\\npursue the Indians and punish them with the greatest\\nseverity.\\nThe exultant savages had returned to Old Chili-\\ncothe, and had divided their spoil and their captives.\\nColonel Boone was immediately sent for to take part\\nin this expedition. Clarke s army crossed the Ohio,\\nand marching very rapidly up the banks of the Little\\nMiami, arrived within two miles of Chilicothe before\\nthey were discovered. On perceiving the enemy the\\nIndians scattered in all directions. Men, women and\\nchildren fled into the remote forest, abandoning their\\nhomes and leaving everything behind them. The\\navenging army swept the valley with fire and ruin.\\nTheir corn just ripening, and upon which they mainly\\nrelied for their winter supply of food, was utterly des-\\ntroyed. Every tree which bore any fruit was felled,\\nand five of their towns were laid in ashes. The trail\\nof the army presented a scene of utter desolation.\\nThe savages were alike astonished and dismayed.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "BRITISH ALLIES. 245\\nThey had supposed that the white men, disheartened\\nby their dreadful defeat at the Blue Lick, would\\nabandon the country. Instead of that, with amazing\\nrecuperative power, they had scarcely reached their\\nhomes ere another army, utterly resistless in numbers,\\nis burning their towns and destroying their whole\\ncountry.\\nThis avenging campaign so depressed the Indians\\nthat they made no farther attempt for the organised\\ninvasion of Kentucky. The termination of the war\\nwith England also deprived them of their military\\nresources, and left them to their own unaided and\\nunintelligent efforts. Still miserable bands continued\\nprowling around, waylaying and murdering the lonely\\ntraveler, setting fire to the solitary hut and inflicting\\nsuch other outrages as were congenial with their cruel\\nnatures. It thus became necessary for the pioneers\\nalways to live with the rifle in hand.\\nColonel Boone had become especially obnoxious to\\nthe Indians. Twice he had escaped from them, under\\ncircumstances which greatly mortified their vanity.\\nThey recognised the potency of his rifle in the\\nslaughter of their own warriors at the Blue Lick and\\nthey were well aware that it was his sagacity which\\nled the army of General Clarke in its avenging march\\nthrough their country. It thus became with them an\\nobject of intense desire to take him prisoner, and had", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "24^ DANIEL BOONE.\\nhe been taken, he would doubtless have been doomed\\nto the severest torture they could inflict.\\nMr. Peck, in his interesting life of Boone, gives the\\nfollowing account of one of the extraordinary adven-\\ntures of this man, which he received from the lips of\\nColonel Boone himself. On one occasion, four Indians\\nsuddenly appeared before his cabin and took him\\nprisoner. Though the delicacy of Colonel Boone s\\norganization was such, that he could never himself\\nrelish tobacco in any form, he still raised some for his\\nfriends and neighbors, and for what were then deemed\\nthe essential rites of hospitality.\\nAs a shelter for curing the tobacco, he had built\\nan enclosure of rails a dozen feet in height and\\ncovered with canes and grass. Stalks of tobacco are\\ngenerally split and strung on sticks about four feet in\\nlength. The ends of these are laid on poles placed\\nacross the tobacco house, and in tiers one above\\nanother, to the roof. Boone had fixed his temporary\\nshelter in such a manner as to have three tiers. He\\nhad covered the lower tier and the tobacco had become\\ndry when he entered the shelter for the purpose of\\nremoving the sticks to the upper tier, preparatory to\\ngathering the remainder of the crop. He had hoisted\\nup the sticks from the lower to the second tier, and\\nwas standing on the poles which supported it, while\\nraising the sticks to the upper tier, when four stout", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "BRITISH ALLIES. 247\\nIndians, with guns, entered the low door and called\\nhim by name.\\nNow, Boone, we got you. You no get away more.\\nWe carry you off to Chilicothe this time. You no\\ncheat us anymore.*\\nBoone looked down upon their upturned faces^\\nsaw their loaded guns pointed at his breast, and\\nrecognising some of his old friends the Shawanese,\\nwho had made him prisoner near the Blue Licks in\\n1778, coolly and pleasantly responded\\nAh, old friends, glad to see you.\\nPerceiving that they manifested impatience to\\nhave him come down, he told them he was quite\\nwilling to go with them, and only begged that they\\nwould wait where they were, and watch him closely\\nuntil he could finish removing the tobacco.\\nWhile thus parleying with them, Boone inquired\\nearnestly respecting his old friends in Chilicothe. He\\ncontinued for some time to divert the attention of\\nthese simple-minded men, by allusions to past events\\nwith which they were familiar, and by talking of his\\ntobacco, his mode of curing it, and promising them\\nan abundant supply. With their guns in their hands\\nhowever, they stood at the door of the shed, grouped\\nclosely together so as to render his escape apparently\\nimpossible. In the meantime Boone carefully gathered\\nhis arms full of the long, dry tobacco leaves, filled", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "248 DANIEL BOONE.\\nwith pungent dust, which would be blinding and\\nstifling as the most powerful snuff, and then with a\\nleap from his station twelve feet high, came directly\\nupon their heads, filling their eyes and nostrils, and so\\nbewildering and disabling them for the moment, that\\nthey lost all self-possession and all self-control.\\nBoone, agile as a deer, darted out at the door, and\\nin a moment was in his bullet-proof log-hut, which to\\nhim was an impregnable citadel. Loop-holes guarded\\nevery approach. The Indians could not shew them-\\nselves without exposure to certain death. They\\nwere too well acquainted with the unerring aim of\\nBoone s rifle to venture within its range. Keeping\\nthe log cabin between them and their redoubtable\\nfoe, the baffled Indians fled into the wilderness.\\nColonel Boone related this adventure with great\\nglee, imitating the gestures of the bewildered Indians.\\nHe said that notwithstanding his narrow escape, he\\ncould not resist the temptation, as he reached the door\\nof his cabin, to look around to witness the effect of\\nhis achievement. The Indians coughing, sneezing,\\nblinded and almost suffocated by the tobacco dust,\\nwere throwing out their arms and groping about in\\nall directions, cursing him for a rogue and calling\\nthemselves fools.**", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XI.\\nKentucky organized as a State,\\nPeace with England. Order of a Kentucky Court. Anecdotes.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSpeech of Mr. Daltou. Reply of Piankashaw. Renewed Indi\\nOfttlons of Indian Hostility Conventions at Danville. Ken-\\ntoeky formed into a State. New Trials for Boone.\\nThe close of the war of the Revolution, bringing\\npeace between the colonies and the mother country,\\ndeprived the Indians of that powerful alliance which\\nhad made them truly formidable. Being no longer\\nable to obtain a supply of ammunition from the\\nBritish arsenals, or to be guided in their murderous\\nraids by British intelligence, they also, through their\\nchiefs, entered into treaties of peace with the rapidly-\\nincreasing emigrants.\\nThough these treaties with the Indians prevented\\nany general organization of the tribes, vagabond In-\\ndians, entirely lawless, were wandering in all direc-\\ntions, ever ready to perpetrate any outrage. Civil\\nsociety has its highway robbers, burglars and mur-\\nderers. Much more so was this the case among these\\nsavages, exasperated by many wrongs for it cannot\\nbe denied that they were more frequently sinner J\\n(240)", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "250 DANIEL BOONEi\\nagainst than sinning. Tlieir untutored natures made\\nbut little distinction between the innocent and the\\nguilty. If a vagabond white man wantonly shot an\\nIndian and many were as ready to do it as to shoot\\na wolf the friends of the murdered Indian would take\\nrevenge upon the inmates of the first white man s\\ncabin they encountered in the wilderness. Thus it\\nwas necessary for the pioneers to be constantly upon\\ntheir guard. If they wandered any distance from\\nthe fort while hunting, or were hoeing in the field, or\\nventured to rear a cabin on a fertile meadow at a dis-\\ntance from the stations, they were liable to be startled\\nat any hour of the day or of the night by the terrible\\nwar-whoop, and to feel the weight of savage vengeance.\\nThis exposure to constant peril influenced the set-\\ntlers, as a general rule, to establish themselves in\\nstations. This gave them companionship, the benefits\\nof co-operative labor, and security against any small\\nprowling bands. These stations were formed upon\\nthe model of the one which Daniel Boone had so\\nwisely organized at Boonesborough. They consisted\\nof a cluster of bullet-proof log- cabins, arranged in a\\nquadrangular form, so as to enclose a large internal\\narea. All the doors opened upon this interior space.\\nHere the. cattle were gathered at night. The inter-\\nvals between the cottages were filled with palisades,\\nalso bullet-proof. Loop-holes through the logs", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "KENTUCKY AS A STATE. 251\\nenabled these riflemen to guard every approach tc\\ntheir fortress. Thus they had Httle to fear from the\\nIndians when sheltered by these strong citadels.\\nEmigration to Kentucky began very rapidly to\\nincrease. Large numbers crossed the mountains to\\nPittsburgh, where they took flat boats and floated\\ndown the beautiful Ohio, la belle rivikre, until they\\nreached such points on its southern banks as pleased\\nthem for a settlement, or from which they could\\nascend the majestic rivers of that peerless State,\\nComfortable homesteads were fast rising in all direc-\\ntions. Horses, cattle, swine, and poultry of all kinds\\nwere multiplied. Farming utensils began to make\\ntheir appearance. The hum of happy industry was\\nheard where wolves had formerly howled and buffalo\\nranged. Merchandise in considerable quantities was\\ntransported over the mountains on pack horses, and\\nthen floated down the Ohio and distributed among\\nthe settlements upon its banks. Country stores arose,\\nland speculators appeared, and continental paper\\nmoney became a circulating medium. This money,\\nhowever, was not of any very great value, as may be\\ninferred from the following decree, passed by one of\\nthe County Courts, establishing the schedule of prices\\nfor tavern-keeping\\nThe Court doth set the following rates to be ob-\\nserved by keepers in -his county Whiskey, fifteen", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "252 DANIEL BOONE.\\ndollars the half-pint rum, ten dollars the gallon a\\ntneal, twelve dollars stabling or pasturage, four\\ndollars the night.\\nUnder these changed circumstances, Colonel Boone,\\nw hose mtrepidity nothing could daunt, and whose\\nconfidence in the protective power of his rifle was\\nunbounded, had reared for himself, on one of the\\nbeautiful meadows of the Kentucky, a commodious\\nhome. He had selected a spot whose fertility and\\nloveliness pleased his artistic eye.\\nIt is estimated that during the years 1783 and 1784\\nnearly twelve thousand persons emigrated to Ken-\\ntucky. Still all these had to move with great caution,\\nwith rifles always loaded, and ever on the alert against\\nsurprise. The following incident will give the reader\\nan idea of the perils and wild adventures encountered\\nby these parties in their search for new and distant\\nhomes.\\nColonel Thomas Marshall, a man of much note,\\ncrossed the AUeghanies with his large family. At\\nPittsburgh he purchased a flat-boat, and was floating\\ndown the Ohio. He had passed the mouth of the\\nKanawha River without any incident of note occurring.\\nAbout ten o clock one night, as his toat had drifted\\nnear the northern shore of the solitary stream, he was\\nhailed by a man upon the bank, who, after inquiring\\nwho he was, where he was bound, etc., added", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "KENTUCKY AS A STATE. 253\\nI have been posted here by order of my brother,\\nSimon Gerty, to warn all boats of the danger of per-\\nmitting themselves to be decoyed ashore. My brother\\nregrets very deeply the injury he has inflicted upon\\nthe white men, and to convince them of the sincei ity\\nof his repentance, and of his earnest desire to be re-\\nstored to their society, he has stationed me here to\\nwarn all boats of the snares which are spread for them\\nby the cunning of the Indians. Renegade white men\\nwill be placed upon the banks, who will represent\\nthemselves as in the greatest distress. Even children\\ntaken captive will be compelled, by threats of torture,\\nto declare that they are all alone upon the shore, and\\nto entreat the boats to come and rescue them.\\nBut keep in the middle of the river, said Gerty,\\nand steel your heart against any supplications you\\nmay hear.\\nThe Colonel thanked him for his warning, and con-\\ntinued to float down the rapid current of the stream.\\nVirginia had passed a law establishing the town of\\nLouisville, at the Falls of the Ohio. A very thriv-\\ning settlement soon sprang up there.\\nThe nature of the warfare still continuing between\\nthe whites and the Indians may be inferred from the\\nfollowing narrative, which we give in the words of\\nColonel Boone\\nThe Indians continued to practice mischief secretly\\n28", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "254 DANIEL BOONE.\\nupon the inhabitants in the exposed part of the\\ncountry. In October a party made an incursion into\\na district called Crab Orchard. One of these Indiana\\nhaving advanced some distance before the others,\\nboldly entered the house of a poor defenseless family,\\nin which was only a negro man, a woman and her\\nchildren, terrified with apprehensions of immediate\\ndeath. The savage, perceiving their defenseless con-\\ndition, without offering violence to the family,\\nattempted to capture the negro, who happily proved\\nan over-match for him, and threw the Indian on the\\nground.\\nIn the struggle, the mother of the children drew an\\naxe from the corner of the cottage and cut off the\\nhead of the Indian, while her little daughter shut the\\ndoor. The savages soon appeared, and applied their\\ntomahawks to the door. An old rusty gun-barrel,\\nwithout a lock, lay in the corner, which the mother\\nput through a small crevice, and the savages per-\\nceiving it, fled. In the meantime the alarm spread\\ntHrough the neighborhood the armed men collected\\nimmediately and pursued the savages into the wilder-\\nness. Thus Providence, by means of this negro^\\nsaved the whole of the poor family from destruction.\\nThe heroism of Mrs. Merrill is worthy of being\\nperpetuated, not only as a wonderful achievement, but\\nas illustrative of the nature of this dreadful warfare*", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "KENTUCKY AS A STATE. 255\\nMr. Merrill, with his wife, little son and daughter,\\noccupied a remote cabin in Nelson County, Kentucky.\\nOn the 24th of December, 1 791, he was alarmed by the\\nbarking of his dog. Opening the door to ascertain the\\ncause, he was instantly fired upon by seven or eight\\nIndians who had crept near the house secreting them-\\nselves behind stumps and trees. Two bullets struck\\nhim, fracturing^ the bones both of his leg and of his\\narm. The savages, with hideous yells, then rushed for\\nthe door.\\nMrs. Merrill had but just time to close and bolt it\\nwhen the savages plunged against it and hewed it\\nwith their tomahawks. Every dwelling was at that\\ntime a fortress whose log walls were bullet proof.\\nBut for the terrible wounds which Mr. Merrill had\\nreceived, he would with his rifle shooting through loop\\nholes, soon have put the savages to flight. They,\\nemboldened by the supposition that he was killed, cut\\naway at the door till they had opened a hole suffi-\\nciently large to crawl through. One of the savages\\nattempted to enter. He had got nearly in when Mrs.\\nMerrill cleft his skull with an ax, and he Jell lifeless\\nupon the floor. Another, supposing that he had safely\\neffected an entrance, followed him and encountered\\nthe same fate. Four more of the savages were in this\\nway despatched, when the others, suspecting that all\\nwas not right, climbed upor the roof and two of them", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "256 DANIEL BOONE.\\nendeavored to descend through the chimney. The\\nnoise they made directed the attention of the inmates\\nof the cabin to the new danger.\\nThere was a gentle fire burning upon the hearth.\\nMr. Merrill, with much presence of mind, directed his\\nson, while his wife guarded the opening of the door\\nwith her ax, to empty the contents of a feather bed\\nupon the fire. The dense smothering smoke filled the\\nflue of the chimney. The two savages, sufi ocated with\\nthe fumes, after a few convulsive efforts to ascend fell\\nalmost insensible down upon the hearth. Mr. Merrill,\\nseizing with his unbroken arm a billet of wood, des-\\npatched them both. But one of the Indians now\\nremained. Peering in at the opening in the door he\\nreceived a blow from the ax of Mrs. Merrill which\\nseverely wounded him. Bleeding and disheartened he\\nfled alone into the wilderness, the only one of the eight\\nwho survived the conflict.\\nA white man who was at that time a prisoner\\namong the Indians and who subsequently effected his\\nescape, reported that when the wounded savage\\nreached his tribe he said to the white captive in\\nbroken English\\nI have bad news for the poor Indian. Me lose a\\nson me lose a broder. The squaws have taken the\\nbreech clout, and fight worse than the long knives.\\nBut the Indians were not always the aggressors.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "KENTUCKY AS A STATE. 257\\nIndeed it is doubtful whether they would ever have\\nraised the war-whoop against the white man, had it\\nnot been fcr the outrages they were so constantly ex-\\nperiencing from unprincipled and vagabond adven-\\nturers, who were ever infesting the frontiers. The\\nfollowing incident illustrates the character and conduct\\nof these miscreants\\nA party of Indian hunters from the South wandering\\nthrough their ancient hunting grounds of Kentucky,\\naccidentally came upon a settlement where they found\\nseveral horses grazing in the field. They stole the\\nhorses, and commenced a rapid retreat to their own\\ncountry. Three young men, Davis, Caffre and\\nMcClure, pursued them. Not being able to overtake\\nthe fugitives, they decided to make reprisals on the\\nfirst Indians they should encounter. It so happened\\nthat they soon met three Indian hunters. The parties\\nsaluted each other in a friendly manner, and proceeded\\non their way in pleasant companionship.\\nThe young men said that they observed the Indians\\nconversing with one another in low tones of voice, and\\nthus they became convinced that the savages medi-\\ntated treachery. Resolving to anticipate the Indians\\nattack, they formed the following plan. While\\nwalking together in friendly conversation, the Indians\\nbeing entirely off their guard, Caffre, who was a very\\npowerful man, was to spring upon the lightest of thr", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "258 DANIEL BOONE.\\nIndians, crush him to the ground, and thus take him\\na prisoner. At the same instant, Davis and McClure\\nwere each to shoot one of the other Indians, who,\\nbeing thus taken by surprise, could offer no resistance.\\nThe signal was given. Caffre sprang upon his\\nvictim and bore him to the ground. McClure shot\\nhis man dead. Davis gun flashed in the pan. The\\nIndian thus narrowly escaping death immediately\\naimed his gun at Caffre, who was struggling with the\\none he had grappled, and instantly killed him. Mc-\\nClure in his turn shot the Indian. There was now one\\nIndian and two white men. But the Indian had the\\nloaded rifle. McClure s was discharged and Davis\\nmissed fire. The Indian, springing from the grasp of\\nhis dying antagonist, presented his rifle at Davis, who\\nimmediately fled, hotly pursued by the Indian. Mc-\\nClure, stopping only to reload his gun, followed after\\nthem. Soon he lost sight of both. Davis was never\\nheard of afterwards. Doubtless he was shot by the\\navenging Indian, who returned to his wigwam with\\nthe white man s scalp.\\nMcClure, after this bloody fray, being left alone in\\nthe wilderness, commenced a return to his distant\\nhome. He had not proceeded far before he met an\\nIndian on horseback accompanied by a boy on foot.\\nThe warrior dismounted, and in token of peace offered\\nMcClure his pipe As they were seated together upon", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "KENTUCKY AS A STATE. 259\\na log, conversing, McClure said that the Indian in-\\nformed him by signs that there were other Indians in\\nthe distance who would soon come up, and that then\\nthey should take him captive, tie his feet beneath the\\nhorse s belly and carry him off to their village\\nMcClure seized his gun, shot the Indian through the\\nheart, and plunging into the forest, effected his escape.\\nAbout this same time Captain James Ward, with a\\nparty of half a dozen white men, one of whom was his\\nnephew, and a number of horses, was floating down\\nthe Ohio River from Pittsburgh. They were in a\\nflat boat about forty-five feet long and eight feet wide.\\nThe gunwale of the boat consisted of but a single pine\\nplank. It was beautiful weather, and for several days\\nthey were swept along by the tranquil stream, now\\nborne by the changing current towards the one shore,\\nand now towards the other. One morning when they\\nhad been swept by the stream within about one\\nhundred and fifty feet of the northern shore, suddenly\\nseveral hundred Indians appeared upon the bank, and\\nuttering savage yells opened upon them a terrible\\nfire.\\nCaptain Ward s nephew, pierced by a ball in the\\nbreast, fell dead in the bottom of the boat. Every\\nhorse was struck by a bullet. Some were instantly\\nkilled others, severely wounded, struggled so violently\\nas to cause the trail bark to dip water, threatening", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "260 DAMEL BOONE.\\nimmediate destruction. All the crew except Captain\\nWard were so panic-stricken by this sudden assault,\\nthat they threw themselves flat upon their faces in the\\nbottom of the boat, and attempted no resistance where\\neven the exposure of a hand would be the target for\\na hundred rifles.\\nFortunately Captain Ward was protected from this\\nshower of bullets by a post, which for some purpose\\nhad been fastened to the gunwale. He therefore\\nretained his position at the helm, which was an oar,\\nstriving to guide the boat to the other side of the\\nriver. As the assailants had no canoes, they could\\nnot attempt to board, but for more than an hour they\\nran along the banks yelling and keeping up an almost\\nconstant fire. At length the boat was swept to the\\nother side of the stream, when the miscreants aban-\\ndoned the pursuit, and disappeared.\\nQuite a large party of emigrants were attacked by\\nthe Indians near what is now called Scagg s Creek,\\nand six were instantly killed. A Mrs, McClure,\\ndelirious with terror, fled she knew not where, fol-\\nlowed by her three little children and carrying a little\\nbabe in her arms. The cries of the babe guided the\\npursuit of the Indians. They cruelly tomahawked\\nthe three oldest children, and took the mother and\\nthe babe as captives. Fortunately the tidings ot this\\noutrage speedily reached one oi the settlements.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "KENTUCKY AS A STATE. 26l\\nCaptain Whitley immediately started in pursuit of the\\nghfig. He overtook them, killed two, wounded two,\\nand rescued the captives. Such were the scenes\\nenacted during a period of nominal peace with the\\nIndians.\\nThere has been transmitted to us a very curious\\ndocument, giving an account of a speech made by\\nMr. Dalton, a Government agent, to a council of\\nIndian chiefs, upon the announcement of peace with\\nGreat Britain, and their reply. Mr. Dalton said\\nMy Children, What I have often told you is\\nnow come to pass. This day I received news from\\nmy great chief at the Falls of the Ohio. Peace is\\nmade with the enemies of America. The white flesh,\\nthe Americans, French, and Spanish, this day smoked\\nout of the peace-pipe. The tomahawk is buried, and\\nthey are now friends. I am told the Shawanese, the\\nDelawares, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and all other red\\nflesh, have taken the Long Knife by the hand. They\\nhave given up to them the prisoners that were in their\\nhands.\\nMy children on the Wabash, open your ears and\\nlet what I tell you sink into your hearts. You know\\nme. Near twenty years I have been among you.\\nThe Long Knife is my nation. I know their hearts;\\nPeace they carry in one hand and war in the other.\\nI leave you to yourselves to judge. Consider and", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "262 DANIEL BOONE.\\ntiow accept the one or the other. We never beg\\npeace of our enemies. If you love your women and\\nchildren, receive the belt of wampum I present you.\\nReturn me my flesh you have in your villages, and\\nthe horses you stole from my people in Kentucky.\\nYour corn-fields were never disturbed by the Long\\nKnife. Your women and children lived quiet in their\\nhouses, while your warriors were killing and robbing\\nny people. All this you know is the truth.\\nThis is the last time I shall speak to you. I have\\nwaited six moons to hear you speak and to get my\\npeople from you. In ten nights I shall leave the\\nWabash to see my great chief at the Falls of the\\nOhio, where he will be glad to hear from your own\\nlips what you have to say. Here is tobacco I give\\nyou. Smoke and consider what I have said.\\nMr. Dalton then presented Piankashaw, the chief\\nof the leading tribe, with a belt of blue and white\\nwampum. Piankashaw received the emblem of peace\\nwith much dignity, and replied\\nMy Great Father the Long Knife, You\\nhave been many years among us. You have suffered by\\nus. We still hope you will have pity and compassion\\nupon us, on our women and children. The sun shines on\\nus, and the good news of peace appears in our faces.\\nThis is the d ly of joy to the Wabash Indians. With om\\ntongue we now speak. We accept your peace-belt.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "KENTUCKY AS A STATE. 263\\n*We received the tomahawk from the English.\\nPoverty forced us to it. We were followed by other\\ntribes. We are sorry for it. To-day we collect the\\nscattered bones of our friends and bury them in one\\ngrave. We thus plant the tree of peace, that God\\nmay spread its branches so that we can all be secured\\nfrom bad weather. Here is the pipe that gives us\\njoy. Smoke out of it. Our warriors are glad you\\nare the man we present it to. We have buried the\\ntomahawk, have formed friendship never to be\\nbroken, and now we smoke out of your pipe.\\nMy father, we know that the Great Spirit was\\nangry with us for stealing your horses and attacking\\nyour people. He has sent us so much snow and cold\\nweather as to kill your horses with our own. We are\\na poor people. We hope God will help us, and that\\nthe Long Knife will have compassion on our women\\nand children. Your people who are with us are welL\\nWe shall collect them when they come in from hunt-\\ning. All the prisoners taken in Kentucky are alive.\\nWe love them, and so do our young women. Some\\nof your people mend our guns, and others tell us they\\ncan make rum out of corn. They are now the same\\nas we. In one moon After this we will take them\\nback to their friends in Kentucky.\\nMy father, this being the day of joy to the Wa-\\nbash Indians, we beg a little drop of your milk to let", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "264 DANIEL BOONE.\\nour warriors sec that it came from your own breast\\nWe were born and raised in the woods. We could\\nnever learn to make rum. God has made the white\\nmen masters of the world.\\nHaving finished his speech, Piankashaw presented\\nMr. Dalton with three strings of blue and white\\nwampum as the seal of peace. All must observe the\\nstrain of despondency which pervades this address,\\nand it is melancholy to notice the imploring tones\\nwith which the chief asks for rum, the greatest curse\\nwhich ever afflicted his people.\\nThe incessant petty warfare waged between vagrant\\nbands of the whites and the Indians, with the outrages\\nperpetrated on either side, created great exasperation.\\nIn the year 1784 there were many indications that\\nthe Indians were again about to combine in an attack\\nupon the settlements. These stations were widely\\nscattered, greatly exposed, and there were many of\\nthem. It was impossible for the pioneers to rally\\nin sufficient strength to protect every position. The\\nsavages, emerging unexpectedly from the wilderness,\\ncould select their own point of attack, and could thus\\ncause a vast amount of loss and misery. For a long\\ntime it had been unsafe for any individual, or even\\nsmall parties, unless very thoroughly armed, to wan-\\nder beyond the protection of the forts. Under these\\ncircumstances, a convention was held of the leading", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "KENTUCKY AS A STATE, ^5\\nmen of Kentucky at the Danville Station, to decide\\nwhat measures to adopt in view of the threatened\\ninvasion. It was quite certain that the movement of\\nthe savages would be so sudden and impetuous that\\nthe settlers would be compelled to rely mainly upon\\ntheir own resources.\\nThe great State of Virginia, of which Kentucky\\nwas but a frontier portion, had become rich and pow-\\nerful. But many weary leagues intervened, leading\\nthrough forests and over craggy mountains, between\\nthe plains of these distant counties and Richmond,\\nthe capital of Virginia. The convention at Danville\\ndiscussed the question whether it were not safer for\\nthem to anticipate the Indians, and immediately to\\nsend an army for the destruction of their towns and\\ncrops north of the Ohio. But here they were embar-\\nrassed by the consideration that they had no legal\\npower to make this movement, and that the whole\\nquestion, momentous as it was and demanding im-\\nmediate action, must be referred to the State Govern-\\nment, far away beyond the mountains. This involved\\nlong delay, and it could hardly be expected that the\\nmembers of the General Court in their peaceful homes\\nwould fully sympathize with the unprotected settlers\\nm their exposure to the tomahawk and the scalping\\nknite.\\nSeveral conventions were held, and the question\\n2S", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "266 DANIEL BOONE.\\nwas earnestly discussed whether the interests ol\\nKentucky did not require her separation from the\\nGovernment of Virginia, and her organization as a\\nself-governing State. The men who had boldly ven-\\ntured to seek new homes so far beyond the limits of\\ncivilization were generally men of great force of\\ncharacter and of political foresight. They had just\\nemerged from the war of the Revolution, during\\nwhich all the most important questions of civil polity\\nhad been thoroughly canvassed. Their meetings\\nwere conducted with great dignity and calm deliber-\\nation.\\nOn the twenty-third of May, 1785, the convention\\nat Danville passed the resolve with great unanimity\\nthat Kentucky ought to be separated from Virginia,\\nand received into the American Union, upon the same\\nbasis as the other States. Still that they might not\\nact upon a question of so much importance without\\ndue deliberation, they referred the subject to another\\nconvention to be assembled at Danville in August.\\nThis convention reiterated the resolution of its prede-\\ncessor issued a proclamation urging the people every-\\nwhere to organise for defence against the Indians, and\\nappointed a delegation of two members to proceed to\\nRichmond, and present their request for a separation\\nlo the authorities there.\\nThe Legislature of Virginia was composed of men", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "KENTUCKY AS A STATK 26/\\ntoo wise not to see that separation was inevitable\\nSeparated from the parent State by distance and by\\ndifficulties of communication, in those days most for-\\ntaidable, they saw that Kentuckians would not long\\nsubmit to be ruled by those whose power was so far\\nremoved as to surround every approach to it with the\\ngreatest embarrassment. It was, without its wrongs,\\nand tyranny and misgovernment, the repetition of the\\ncircumstances of the Crown and Colonies and with\\ngood judgment, and as the beautiful language of the\\nDanville convention expressed it, with sole intent to\\nbless its people, they agreed to a dismemberment of\\nits part, to secure the happiness of the whole.\\nIt is not important here to enter into a detail of the\\nvarious discussions which ensued. It is sufficient to\\nsay that the communication from Kentucky to the\\nLegislature of Virginia was referred to the illustrious\\nJohn Marshall, then at the commencement of his\\ndistinguished career. He gave to the request of the\\npetitioners his own strong advocacy. The result waa^\\nthat a decree was passed after tedious delays, au-\\nthorising the formal separation of Kentucky from\\nVirginia. On the fourth of February, 1791, the new\\nState, by earnest recommendation of George Wash-\\nington, was admitted into the American Unioa\\nDaniel Boone, by W. H. Bofut", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "268 DANIEL BOONE.\\nIt does not appear that Colonel Boone was a\\nmember of any of these conventions. He had no taste\\nfor the struggles in political assemblies. He dreaded\\nindeed the speculator, the land jobber, and the intri-\\ncate decisions of courts, more than the tomahawk of\\nthe Indian. And he knew full well that should che\\nhour of action come, he would be one of the first to be\\nsummoned to the field. While therefore ot.Aers of the\\nearly pioneers were engaged in these important deli-\\nberations, he was quietly pursuing those occupations,\\ncongenial to his tastes, of cultivating the farm, or in\\nhunting game in the solitude of the forests. His\\nhumble cabin stood upon the banks of the Kentucky\\nRiver, not far from the station at Boonesborough.\\nAnd thoroughly acquainted as he was with the habits\\nof the Indians, he felt quite able, in his bullet-proof\\ncitadel, to protect himself from any marauding bands\\nwhich might venture to show themselves so near the\\nfort.\\nIt seems to be the lot of humanity that life should\\nbe composed of a series of storms, rising one after\\nanother. In the palace and in the cottage, in ancient\\ndays and at the present time, we find the sweep of the\\nInexorable law that man is born to mourn.\\nSorrow is for the sods of men,\\nAnd weeping for earth s daughters.\\nThe cloud of menaced Indian invasion h\u00c2\u00abid passed", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "KENTUCKY AS A STATE. 269\\naway, when suddenly the sheriff appears in Boone s\\nlittle cabin, and informs him that his title to his land 13\\ndisputed, and that legal proceedings were commenced\\nagainst him. Boone could not comprehend this. Ken-\\ntucky he regarded almost his own by the right of his\\ndiscovery. He had led the way there. He had estab-\\nlished himself and family in the land, and had defend-\\ned it from the incursions of the Indians. And now,\\nin his advancing years, to be driven from the few\\nacres he had selected and to which he supposed he had\\na perfect title, seemed to him very unjust indeed. He\\ncould not recognise any right in what seemed to him\\nbut the quibbles of the lawyers. In his autobiography\\nhe wrote in reference to his many painful adventures\\nMy footsteps have often been marked with blood.\\nTwo darling sons and a brother have I lost by savage\\nhands, which have also taken from me forty valuable\\nhorses and abundance of cattle. Many dark and\\nsleepless nights have I been a companion for owls, se-\\nparated from the cheerful society of men, scorched by\\nthe summer s sun, and pinched by the winter s cold,\\nan instrument ordained to settle the wilderness.\\nAgitated by the thought of the loss of his farm and\\ndeeply wounded in his feelings, as though a great\\nwrong had been inflicted upon him, Boone addressed\\nan earnest memorial to the Legislature of Kentucky.\\nIn this he stated that immediately after the troubles", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "2/0 DANIEL BOONE.\\nwith the Indians had ceased, he located himself upon\\nlands to which he supposed he had a perfect title j\\nthat he reared his house and commenced cultivating\\nhis fields. And after briefly enumerating the sacri-\\nfices he had made in exploring, settling and defend-\\ning Kentucky, he said he could not understand the\\njustice of making a set of complicated forms of law,\\nsuperior to his actual occupancy of the land selected,\\nas he believed when and where it was, it was his un-\\nquestioned right to do so.\\nBut the lawyers and the land speculators were too\\nshrewd for the pioneer. Colonel Boone was sued;\\nthe question went to the courts which he detested, and\\nBoone lost his farm. It was indeed a very hard case.\\nHe had penetrated the country when no other white\\nman trod its soil. He discovered its wonderful\\nresources, and proclaimed them to the world. He\\nhad guided settlers into the region, and by his sagacity\\nand courage, had provided for their wants and protec-\\nted them from the savage. And now in his declining\\nyears he found himself driven from his farm, robbed\\nof every acre, a houseless, homeless, impoverished man*\\nThe deed was so cruel that thousands since, in reading\\nthe recital, have been agitated by the strongest\\nemotions of indignation and grief.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIL\\nAdventures Romantic and Perilous.\\nrhe Search for the Horse.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Navigating the Ohio HeroiBm of Mtb.\\nRowan.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lawless Gangs Exchange of Prisoners.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Boone Re-\\nvisits the Home of his Childhood.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Realms beyond th\u00c2\u00ab\\nMississippi.- Habits of the Hunters.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Corn Boone s Journey to\\nthe West.\\nThe Indians still continued hostile. The following\\nincident gives one an idea of the nature of the conflict\\nwhich continued, and of the perils which were\\nencountered.\\nThere was a striving station where a few set-\\ntlers were collected, at a spot now called State\\nCreek Iron Works. One or two farm-houses were\\nscattered around, but at such a short distance from\\nthe fort that their inmates could at once take refuge\\nbehind its log walls, in case of alarm. In the month\\nof August, 1786, a young man residing in the fort, by\\nthe name of Yates, called at one of these farm-houses\\nand requested a lad, Francis Downing, to accompany\\nhim in search of a horse, which had strayed away.\\nThe two friends set out together, and after searching\\nthe forest in vain, found themselves, the latter part of\\nthe afternoon, in a lonely uninhabited valley, nearly\\n(271)", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "2J2 DANIEL BOONE.\\nseven miles from the fort Here young Downing\\nbecame quite alarmed by some indications that\\nIndians were dogging their steps. He communicated\\nhis fears to his companion. But Yates, who was\\nseveral years older than Downing, was an expe-\\nrienced hunter and inured to life in the woods, had\\nbecome to a certain degree indifferent to danger.\\nHe made himself quite merry over his young com-\\npanion s fears, asking him at what price he was willing\\nto sell his scalp, and offering to insure it for sixpence.\\nStill Downing was not satisfied, and his alarm\\nincreased as he insisted that he occasionally heard\\nthe crack of dry twigs behind them, as if broken by\\nsome one pursueing. But Yates deriding his fears,\\npressed on, making the woods resound with a song, to\\nwhich he gave utterance from unusually full and strong\\nlungs. Downing gradually slackened his pace, and\\nwhen Yates was some thirty yards in advance of\\nhim, sprang into a dense cluster of tall whortleberry\\nbushes, where he was effectually concealed. Scarcely\\nhad he done this, when to his great terror he saw\\ntwo Indians peeping cautiously out of a thick cane-\\nbrake. Deceived by the song of Yates, who with\\nstentorian lungs was still giving forth his woodland\\nditty, they supposed both had passed. Young\\nDowning thought it impossible but that the savages\\nmust have seen him as he concealed himself. Greatly", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "ADVENTURES. 273\\nalarmed he raised his gun, intending to shoot one and\\nto trust to his heels for escape from the other.\\nBut his hand was so unsteady that the gun went off\\nbefore he had taken aim. Terror stricken, he rushed\\nalong the path Yates had trod. Yates, alarmed by\\nthe report of the gun, came running back. As they\\nmet, the two Indians were seen not far from them in\\nhot pursuit. They soon could easily see that the\\nenemy was gaining upon them. In their rapid flight\\nthey came to a deep gulley which Yates cleared at a\\nbound, but young Downing failed in the attempt\\nHis breast struck the opposite almost precipitous\\nbank, and he rolled to the bottom of the ditch. Some\\nobstruction in the way prevented the Indians from\\nwitnessing the fall of Downing. They continued the\\npursuit of Yates, crossing the gulley a few yards\\nbelow where Downing had met his mishap. Thus in\\nless time than we have occupied in the narration, the\\nIndians disappeared in their chase after Yates.\\nDowning was in great perplexity. He did not dare\\nto creep out of the gulley, lest he should be seen, and\\nas soon as the Indians should perceive that he was\\nnot with Yates, as they inevitably would ere long do,\\nthey would know that he was left behind, and would\\nturn back for his capture. Unfortunately young\\nDowning had so far lost his presence of mind, that he\\nhad failed to reload his gun. Just then he saw one of", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "274 DANIEL BOONE.\\nthe savages returning, evidently in search of hiin.\\nThere was no possible resource left but flight. Throw-\\ning away his now useless gun, he rushed into the\\nforest with all the speed which terror could inspire.\\nHe was but a boy, the full-grown Indian gained\\nrapidly upon him, he could almost strike him .vith his\\ntomahawk, when they came to an immense tree,\\nblown up by the roots. The boy ran on one side of\\nthe trunk and the Indian on the other, towards the\\nimmense pile of earth which adhered to the upturned\\nroots.\\nThe boy now gave up all hope in utter despair. It\\nseemed certain that the brawny Indian would get\\nahead of him and intercept his further flight. But it so\\nhappened was it an accident or was it a Providence\\nthat a she-bear had made her bed directly in the\\npath which the Indian with almost blind eagerness\\nwas pursuing. Here the ferocious beast was suckling\\nher cubs. The bear sprang from her lair, and instantly\\nwith a terrific hug grasped the savage in her paws.\\nThe Indian gave a terrific yell and plunged his knife\\nagain and again into the body of the bear. The boy\\nhad but one brief glance, as in this bloody embrace\\nthey rolled over and over on the ground. The boy,\\npraying that the bear might tear the Indian in pieces,\\nadded new speed to his flight and reached the fort in\\nsafety", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "ADVENTURES. 2/5\\nThere he found Yates who had arrived but a few\\nmoments before him, and who had outrun the other\\nIndian. The next morning a well armed part}^ returned\\nto the tree. Both the bear and the Indian had\\ndisappeared. Probably both had suffered very severely\\nin the conflict, and both had escaped with their lives.\\nAnother incident illustrative of these perilous ad-\\nventures in the now peaceful State of Kentucky. Mr.\\nRowan, with his own and five other families, left the\\nlittle hamlet at Louisville to float down the Ohio to\\nGreen River, and to ascend that stream, intending to\\nrear their new homes on its fertile and delightful\\nbanks. The families were quite comfortably accom-\\nmodated in a large flat-bottomed boat. Another\\nboat of similar construction conveyed their cattle and\\nsundry articles of household furniture. On the route\\nwhich they were pursuing, there were then no settle-\\nments. The Ohio river and the Green river flowed\\nthrough unbroken solitudes.\\nThe flat boats had floated down the beautiful Ohio,\\nthrough scenes of surpassing loveliness, about one\\nhundred miles, when one night about ten o clock a\\nprodigious shouting and yelling of Indians was heard\\nsome distance farther down the river on the northern\\nshore. Very soon they came in sight of their camp-\\niires, which were burning very brightly. It was\\nevident that the Indians were having a great carousal", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "2/6 DANIEL BOONE.\\nrejoicing over some victory. Mr. Rowan immediately\\nordered the two boats to be lashed firmly together.\\nThere were but seven men on board who were capable\\nof making efficient use of the rifle. Plying the oars\\nas vigorously and noiselessly as they could, they\\nendeavored to keep close to the Kentucky shore.\\nAnd yet they were careful not to approach too near,\\nlest there might be Indians there also. It was evi-\\ndent that there was a large gathering of the Indians\\non the northern bank, for their camp-fires extended\\nfor a distance of nearly half a mile along the river.\\nAs the boats floated noiselessly along in the gloom\\nof the night, under shadow of the clifls, they were not\\ndetected until they were opposite the central fire,\\nwhose brilliancy threw a flood of light nearly across\\ntlie stream. A simultaneous shout greeted this dis-\\ncovery, and with terrific yells the savages rushed to\\ntheir canoes and commenced a pursuit. The two flat\\nboats rapidly floated beyond the illumination of the\\nfires into the region of midnight darkness. The\\ntimid Indians, well acquainted with the white man s\\nunerring aim, pursued cautiously, though their hideous\\nyells resounded along the shores.\\nMr. Rowan ordered all on board to keep perfect\\nsilence, to conceal themselves as much as possible,\\nand ordered not a gun to be fired till the Indiana\\nwere so near that the powder of the gim would buru", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "ADVENTURES. 2/7\\nthem, thus rendering every shot absolutely certain.\\nThe Indians, with their hideous yells, pursued in\\ntheir canoes until within a hundred yards of the\\nboats. They then seemed simultaneously to have\\nadopted the conviction that the better part of valor\\nwas discretion. In the darkness, they could not see\\nthe boatmen, who they had no doubt were concealed\\nbehind bullet-proof bulwarks. Their birch canoes\\npresented not the slightest obstruction to the passage\\nof a rifle ball. Knowing that the flash of a gun from\\nthe boat would be certain death to some one of their\\nnumber, and that thus the boatmen, with the rapidity\\nwith which they could load and fire, would destroy a\\nlarge part of their company before they could hope\\nto capture the flat boats, they hesitated to approach\\nany nearer, but followed in the pursuit for nearly\\nthree miles down the river, assailing the white men\\nonly with harmless yells.\\nThe heroic Mrs. Rowan, as she saw the canoes\\napproaching, supposing that the savages would at-\\ntempt to board the boats, crept quietly around in the\\ndarkness, collected all the axes, and placed one by\\nthe side of each man, leaning the handle against his\\nknee. While performing this significant act she\\nuttered not a word, but returned to her own seat in\\nalienee, retaining a sharp hatchet for herself.\\nWith such determined spirits to assail, it was weU", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "2/8 DANIEL BOONE.\\nfor the savages that they did not approach withia\\narms-length of those whom they were pursuing. They\\nwould certainly have met with a bloody reception.\\nThe savages at length, despairing of success,\\nf\u00c2\u00abh*nquished the pursuit and returned to their de-\\nmoniac orgies around their camp-fires. It was sup-\\nposed that they had captured a boat which was\\ndescending the river the day before, and that their\\nextraordinary revelry was accompanied by the roast-\\ning of their captives. A son of Mr. Rowan, but ten\\nyears of age, who subsequently became one of the\\nmost distinguished men in Kentucky, was present on\\nthis occasion. He frequently, in after-years, alluded\\nto the indescribable sensations of sublimity and terror\\nwhich the scene inspired. The gloom of the night\\nthe solemn flow of the majestic river the dim view of\\nthe forests on either side the gleam of the camp-fires\\nof the Indians, around which the half-clad savages\\nwere dancing in hideous contortions the unearthly\\nyells in which every demoniac passion seemed con-\\ntending for the mastery the shout which was given\\nwhen they discovered the boats beneath the shadows\\nof the opposite cliffs the pursuit of the canoes with\\nredoubled vehemence of hooting the rapidity with\\nwhich, with brawny arms, they paddled their boats\\nto and fro the breathless silence which pervaded\\nthe flat boat while for more than an hour the occu\u00c2\u00ab", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "ADVENTURES. 279\\npants awaited, momentarily expecting the terrible\\nonset and above all, the fortitude and heroism dis-\\nplayed by his mother, all these combined to leave an\\nimpression upon the mind of the boy which could\\nnever be obliterated. Few will be able to read the\\nrecord of this adventure without emotion. What then\\nmust it have been to have experienced it in bodily\\npresence, and to have shared in all its terrible dangers\\nAs we have before said, there was no distinctly\\nproclaimed war, at this time, between the pioneers\\nand the Indians. While lawless men on both sides\\nwere committing the most atrocious outrages, the\\nchiefs and the legitimate authorities were nominally\\nat peace. The red men, whether engaged in what\\nthey deemed lawful warfare, or moving in plundering\\nbands, were in the habit of inflicting upon their cap-\\ntives the most dreadful tortures which their ingenuity\\ncould devise. The white men could not retaliate by\\nthe perpetration of such revolting cruelty.\\nIt probably was a suggestion of Colonel Boone\\nthat a council might be held with the Indian chiefs^\\nand a treaty formed by which prisoners should be\\nexempted from torture and exchanged, as in civilized\\nwarfare. The Indians were by no means reckless of\\nthe lives of their warriors, and would probably be\\nvery ready to give up a white captive if by so doing\\nthey could receive one of their own braves in return.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "280 DANIEL BOONE.\\nA council was held at a station where Maysville now\\nstands. Colonel Boone was at once selected as the\\nman of all others most fit to take part in these deli-\\nberations. He was not only thoroughly acquainted\\nwith the Indians, their habits, their modes of thought,\\nand the motives most likely to influence their minds,\\nbut his own peculiar character seemed just the one\\ncalculated to inspire them with admiration.\\nThe principle was here adopted of an exchange of\\nprisoners, which notwithstanding the continued vio-\\nlence of the lawless, saved the lives of many captives.\\nIt is an interesting fact, illustrative of the sagacity\\nand extraordinary power of Colonel Boone over the\\nIndian mind, that the chiefs with one consent agreed\\nin grateful commemoration of this treaty, that if any\\ncaptive should hereafter be taken by them from Mays-\\nville, that captive should be treated with every possi-\\nble degree of lenity. And it is worthy of record that\\nsuch a captive was subsequently taken, and that the\\nIndians with the most scrupulous fidelity fulfilled\\ntheir pledge. Indeed, it is difficult for an impartial\\nhistorian to deny, that these poor savages, ignorant\\nand cruel as they were, often displayed a sense of\\nhonor which we do not so often find in their oppo-\\nnents. It is to be feared that were Indian historians\\nto write the record of these wars, we should not find\\nthat they were always in the wrong.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "ADVENTURES. 28 1\\nColonel Bcone, ejected from his lands and thus left\\npenniless, felt keenly the wrongs which were inflicted\\nupon him. He knew full well that he had done a\\nthousand times more for Kentucky _ than any other\\nman living or dead. He had conferred upon the\\nState services which no money could purchase.\\nThough to his intimate friends he confided his suf-\\nferings, he was too proud to utter loud complaints.\\nIn silence he endured. But Kentucky had ceased to\\nbe a happy home for him. Over all its broad and\\nbeautiful expanse which he had opened to the world,\\nthere was not a single acre which he could call his\\nown. And he had no money with which to purchase a\\nfarm of those speculators, into whose hands most of\\nthe lands had fallen. Could the good old man now\\nrise from his grave, a Kentucky Legislature would not\\nlong leave him landless. There is scarcely a cabin or\\na mansion in the whole State, where Daniel Boone\\nwould not meet with as hospitable a reception as\\ngrateful hearts could give.\\nAs a grief-stricken child rushes to its mother s arms\\nfor solace, so it is natural for man, when world-weary\\nand struggling with adversity, to look back with\\nlonging eyes to the home of his childhood. The\\nremembrance of its sunny days animates him, and its\\ntrivial sadnesses are forgotten. Thus with Daniel\\nBoone houseless and stung by ingratitude, he turned", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "282 DANIEL BOONE.\\nhis eyes to the far distant home of his childhood, OA\\nthe banks of the Schuykill. More than forty years of\\na wonderfully adventurous life had passed, since he a\\nboy of fourteen had accompanied his father in his\\nremoval from Reading, in Berk s County, to North\\nCarolina. Still the remarkable boy had left traces\\nbehind him which were not yet obliterated.\\nHe visited Reading, probably influenced by a faint\\nhope of finding there a home. A few of his former\\nacquaintances were living, and many family friends\\nremained. By all he was received with the greatest\\nkindness. But the frontier settlement of log huts, and\\nthe majestic surrounding forests filled with game, had\\nentirely disappeared. Highly cultivated farms, from\\nwhich even the stumps of the forest had perished, ex-\\ntended in all directions. Ambitious mansions adorned\\nthe hillsides, and all the appliances of advancing civil-\\nization met the eye. There could be no home here for\\nDaniel Boone. Amid these strange scenes he felt as\\na stranger, and his heart yearned again for the soli-\\ntudes of the forest. He longed to get beyond the\\nreach of lawyers offices, and court-houses, and land\\nspeculators.\\nAfter a short visit he bade adieu forever to his\\nfriends upon the Schuykill, and turned his steps\\nagain towards the setting sun. His feelings had been\\nf-^ too deeply wounded to allow him to think of remain*", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "ADVENTURES. 283\\ning a man without a home in Kentucky. Still the\\nidea of leaving a region endeared to him by so many\\nmemories must have been very painful. He remem-\\nbered vividly his long and painful journeys over the\\nmountains, through the wilderness untrodden by the\\nfoot of the white man his solitary exploration of the\\nnew Eden which he seemed to have found there the\\nglowing accounts he had carried back to his friends of\\nthe sunny skies, the salubrious clime, the fertile soil,\\nand the majesty and loveliness of the landscape of\\nmountain, valley, lake and river which Providence had\\nlavished with a prodigal hand in this Garden of the\\nLord.\\nOne by one he had influenced his friends to emigrate,\\nhad led them to their new homes, had protected them\\nagainst the savages, and now when Kentucky had\\nbecome a prosperous State in the Union, containing\\nthirty thousand inhabitants, he was cast aside, and\\nunder the forms of law was robbed of the few acres\\nwhich he had cultivated as his own. His life embit-\\ntered by these reflections, and seeing nothing to\\nattract him in the wild and unknown regions beyond\\nthe Mississippi, Colonel Boone turned sadly back to\\nVirginia.\\nIt was an easy task for him to remove. In such an\\nhour, one can sometimes well say, Blessed be\\nNothing. A few pack-horses were sufficient to convey", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "284 DANIEL BOONE.\\nall his household goods. It is probable that his wife\\nand children, indignant at the treatment which the\\nhusband and father had received, were glad to leave.\\nThis was doubtless one of the saddest journeys\\nthat Colonel Boone ever undertook. Traversing an\\nalmost pathless wilderness in a direction a little north\\nof east from Boonesborough, he crossed the various\\nspeers of the Alleghany range, supporting his family\\nwith his rifle on the way, until after passing over three\\nhundred miles of the wilderness, he reached the mouth\\nof the Kanawha river, as that stream flows from\\nVirginia due north, and empties into the Ohio river.\\nHere there was a point of land washed by the Ohio\\non the north, and the Great Kanawha on the west, to\\nwhich the appropriate name of Point Pleasant had\\nbeen given. It does not appear that civilization had\\nas yet penetrated this region. The emigration to Ken-\\ntucky had floated by it down the river, descending\\nfrom Pittsburg, or had crossed the mountain passes\\nfrom North Carolina, several hundred miles to the\\nsouth.\\nColonel Boone was now fifty-five years of age. If\\nthere were any settlement at the time at Point Pleasant,\\nit must have consisted merely of a few log huts. Here\\nat all events. Colonel Boone found the solitude and\\nthe communion with nature alone, for which his heart\\nyearned. The world might call him poor, and still he", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "ADVENTURES. 28^\\nwas rich in the abundant supply of all his earthly\\nwants. He reared his log hut where no one appeared\\nto dispute his claim. The fertile soil around, a\\nvirgin soil, rich with undeveloped treasures, under the\\nsimplest culture produced abundantly, and the forest\\naround supplied him daily with animal food more\\nthan a European peasant sees in a year.\\nHere Colonel Boone and his family remained for\\nseveral years, to use a popular phrase, buried from\\nthe world. His life was mainly that of a hunter.\\nMr. Peck, speaking of the habits of those pioneers who\\ndepended mainly upon the rifle for support, writes\\nI have often seen him get up early in the morning,\\nwalk hastily out, and look anxiously to the woods\\nand snuff the autumnal winds with the highest rapture\\nthen return into the house and cast a quick and\\nattentive look at the rifle, which was always suspended\\nto a joist by a couple of buck-horns or little forks.\\nThe hunting dog understanding the intentions of his\\nmaster, would wag his tail, and by every blandishment\\nm his power, express his readiness to accompany him\\nto the woods.\\nIt probably did not diminish Colonel Boone s interest\\nin his new home, that it was exposed to all the perils of\\nborder life that his rifle should be ever loaded that his\\nfaithful watch-dog should be stationed at the door, to\\ngive warning of any approach ng footsteps and that", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "286 DANIEL BOONE.\\nhe and his family should always be ready for a siege ot\\nbattle. With these precautions, Boone had no more\\nfear of assault from half a dozen vagabond Indians^\\nthan he had from so many howling wolves.\\nThe casualties of life had greatly reduced his family.\\nOf his three sons, the eldest had fallen beneath the\\narrow and the tomahawk of the savages amidst the\\ngloomy defiles of the Alleghany mountains. His\\nsecond son was killed at the dreadful battle of the Blue\\nLicks, as his agonised father had been compelled to\\nabandon him to the* merciless foe. His third son,\\nprobably chagrined by the treatment which his father\\nhad received from the authorities of Kentucky, had\\nbidden adieu to all the haunts of civilized life, and\\ntraversing the wilderness towards the setting sun for\\nmany hundred miles, had crossed the Mississippi and\\nsought a home in the wilds of the upper Louisiana,\\nthen under the dominion of Spain.\\nAs Boone was quietly engaged in his solitary voca-\\ntion of farmer and hunter, where there were no books,\\nno newspapers, nothing whatever to inform him of\\nwhat was transpiring in the busy world of civilization,\\nor in the haunts of savage life, two or three hunters\\ncame one day to his cabin, where of course they met\\nwith a very hospitable reception. It was not difficult\\nto entertain guests in those days. The floor of the\\ncabin supplied all the needed accommodations for\\ni", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "ADVENTURES. 287\\nlodging. Each guest with his rifle could easily furnish\\nmore food than was desired for the whole family.\\nA little corn-meal, very coarsely ground in what\\nwas called a tub-mill, gave quite a variety of palatable\\nfood. Boiled in water it formed a dish called mush,\\nwhich when eaten with milk, honey or butter, presented\\ntruly a delicious repast for hungry mouths. Mixed\\nwith cold water, it was ready to be baked. When cov-\\nered with hot ashes, it emerged smoking from the glow-\\ning embers in the form of Ash Cake. When baked upon\\na shingle and placed before the coals, it was termed\\nJourney Cake, so called because it could be so speed-\\nily prepared. This name has been corrupted in\\nmodern times into Johnny Cake. When baked upon\\na helveless hoe, it formed the Hoe Cake. When\\nbaked in a kettle covered with a heated lid, if in one\\nlarge cake, it was called a Pone or loaf. If in quite\\na number of small cakes they were called Dodgers.\\nCorn flour seems to have been peculiarly prepared\\nby Providence for the pioneers. For them it possesses\\nsome very great advantages over all other flour. It\\nrequires but few and the most simple cooking utensils.\\nIt can be rendered very palatable without either yeast,\\neggs, sugar or spices of any kind. It can easily be\\nraised in the greatest abundance, and aflbrds the most\\nwholesome and nutritious food.\\nLet paeans, writes Mr. Hartly, be sung all over", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "288 DANIEL BOONE.\\nthe mighty West, to Indian Corn. Without it, the\\nWest would still have been a wilderness. Was the\\nfrontier suddenly invaded, without commissary, or\\nquartermaster, or other sources of supply, each soldier\\nparched a peck of corn. A portion of it was put into\\nhis pockets, the remainder in his wallet, and throwing\\nit upon his saddle with his rifle on his shoulder, he\\nwas ready in half an hour for the campaign. Did a\\nflood of emigration inundate the frontier, with an\\namount of consumers disproportioned to the supply\\nof grain, the facility of raising the Indian com,\\nand its early maturity, gave promise and guarantee\\nthat the scarcity would be temporary and tolerable.\\nDid the safety of the frontier demand the services of\\nevery adult militiaman, the boys and women could\\nthemselves raise corn, and furnish ample supplies of\\nbread. Did an autumnal intermittent confine the\\nwhole family, or the entire population to the sick bed,\\nthis certain concomitant of the clearing and culti-\\nvating the new soil, mercifully withholds its paroxysms\\ntill the crop of corn is made. It requires no further\\nlabor or care afterwards. Paeans, say we, and a temple\\nof woi^hipping to the creator of Indian Corn\\nThe hunters to whom we referred were indeed con-\\ngenial companions to Daniel Boone. As day after\\nday they accompanied him in the chase, and night\\nafter night sat by the blaze of his cabine-fire, related", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "ADVENTURES. 289\\nto him the adventures they had encountered far away\\nbeyond the Mississippi, the spirit of his youth revived\\nwithin him. An irrepressible desire sprang up in his\\nheart again to become a pioneer in the pathless\\nforest which he loved so well. It is not improbable\\nalso that his parental feelings might have been aroused\\nby the consideration that his son had gone before him\\nto that distant land and that he might have been\\nanimated by the hope of being reunited with him in\\nhis declining years.\\nThe hunters represented to him that another Ken-\\ntucky could be found beyond the Father of Waters\\nthat the game was abundant and would be inexhaust-\\nible, until long after his earthly pilgrimage should\\nend that the Spanish Government, desirous of pro^\\nmoting emigration, were ready to make the most\\nliberal grants of land to any man who would rear a\\ncabin and commence the cultivation of the soil that.\\nover an expanse of hundreds of miles of a sunny-\\nclime, and as luxurious soil as heart could desire, he\\ncould select his broad acres with no fear of ever again\\nbeing ejected from his home.\\nThese representations were resistless. Colonel\\nBoone decided again to become a wanderer to the\\nfar West, though it involved the relinquishment of\\nAmerican citizenship and becoming a subject of the\\ncrown of Spain.\\n26", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "290 DANIEL BOONE.\\nThe year 1795 had now come, as Colonel Boone\\ngathered up his few household goods for the fourth\\ngreat remove of his life. He was born on the banks\\nof the Delaware his childhood was passed amidst\\nthe solitudes of the Upper Skuylkill his early man-\\nhood, where he reared his cabin and took to it his\\nworthy bride, wa^. in North Carolina. Thence pene-\\ntrating the wilderness through adventures surpassing\\nthe dreams of romance, he had passed many years\\namidst the most wonderful vicissitudes of quietude\\nand of agitation, of peace and of war, on the settle-\\nment of which he was the father, at Boonesborough,\\nin the valley of the Kentucky river. Robbed of the\\npossessions which he had earned a hundred times\\nover, he had sought a temporary residence at Point\\nPleasant, in Virginia. And now, as he was approach-\\ning the termination of his three score years, he\\nwas prepared to traverse the whole extent of Ken-\\ntucky, from the Alleghany border on the east, to the\\nmighty flood of the Missisippi, which then upon the\\nwest rushed with its turbid flood through an almost\\nunbroken solitude. It was a long, long journey.\\nWe can only surmise the reasons why he did not\\nfloat down the Ohio in a flat boat. It may be said\\nthat he was entirely unaccustomed to boating. And\\nas it does not appear that any other families joined\\nhim in the enterprise, his solitary boat would be", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "ADVENTURES. 291\\nalmost certain to be attacked and captured by some\\nof the marauding bands which frequented the northern\\nbanks of the Ohio.\\nColonel Boone was perfectly at home in the wilder-\\nness. He could always find a path for himself, where\\nthere was no trail to follow. And but few Indians\\nnow ventured into the interior of the State. We have\\nno record of the journey. He reached the Missisippi\\nsafely, crossed the riv^sr into what is now the State of\\nMissouri, and found a warm greeting in the cabin of\\nhis son Daniel M. Boone, who had established him-\\nself upon the western banks of the river, near where\\nthe city of St Louis now stands.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIII.\\nA New Home,\\nColonel Boone welcomed by the Spanish Authorities. Boone s Nar-\\nrative to Audubon. The Midnight Attack. Pursuit of tha\\nSavages. Sickness In the Wilderness. Honesty of Colonel\\nBoone. Payment of his Debts. Loss of all his Property.\\nAt the time when Colonel Boone crossed the Mis-\\nsissippi and entered Missouri, the Spanish Govern-\\nment, then in possession of that territory, being\\nanxious to promote the settlement of the country,\\ngave a very cordial welcome to all emigrants.- The\\nfame of Colonel Boone, as one of the most bold and\\nvaluable of pioneers, had preceded him. The Lieu-\\ntenant Governor under the Spanish crown, who resided\\nat St. Louis, received him with marked attention, and\\ngave him the assurance that ample portions of land\\nshould be given to him and his family.\\nColonel Boone took up his residence, with his son,\\nIn what is called the Femme Osage district. The\\nSpanish authorities appointed him Commandant of\\nthe district, which was an office of both civil and\\nmilitary power. His commission was dated July nth,\\nl8oa Remote as was this region from the Atlantic\\n(292)", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 293\\nStates, bold adventurers, lured by the prospect of\\nobtaining large tracts of land, were rapidly pouring\\nin. Instead of collecting together, they scattered\\nwildly over the vast domain. Don Charles, the Spa-\\nnish governor, gave Colonel Boone eight thousand\\nacres of land on the north side of the Missouri riven\\nBy the law of the province he was bound to build\\nupon some part of this land a house within the yeafp.\\nand also to obtain a confirmation of the grant from^\\nthe representative of the Spanish crown, then residing;\\nin New Orleans. Both of these precautions the simple-\\nminded man neglected to adopt. To visit New Orleans;\\nrequired a journey through the wilderness of more\\nthan a thousand miles. Though he might float down\\nthe stream in his boat he would be exposed conti-\\nnually to attacks from the Indians on its banks, and\\nwhen ready to return he could not surmount the rapid\\ncurrent of the river in his boat, but would be com-\\npelled to traverse the winding banks, often through\\nalmost impenetrable forests and morasses. His duties\\nas syndic or justice of the peace also occupied much\\nof his time, and the Lieutenant Governor at St. Louis\\nagreed to dispense with his residence upon his lands.\\nIn addition to this, Colonel Boone had no doubt that\\nthe country would soon come under the power of the\\nUnited States, and he could not believe the United\\nStates Government would disturb his title.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "294 DANIEL BOONE.\\nSoon after Boone s emigration to Missouri, the\\nEmperor Napoleon, by treaty with Spain, obtained\\npossession of the whole of the vast region west of the\\nMississippi and Missouri, then known as Louisiana,\\nand the region was transferred to France. It is a cu-\\nrious fact in the history of Boone passing through such\\nwonderful adventures, that he had been a subject of\\nGeorge II., George III., a citizen of the United States,\\nof the temporary nationality ot Transylvania, an\\nadopted son and citizen of the Shawanese tribe of\\nIndians, a subject of Charles IV. of Spain, and now\\nhe found himself a subject of the first Napoleon,\\nwhose empire was then filling the world with ita\\nrenown.\\nNot long after this, the Emperor sold the country^\\nas we have recorded, to the United States, saying with\\nthat prophetic wisdom which characterised this extra-\\nordinary man, I have now given England a rival\\nupon the seas.** The fulfilment of this prophecy has\\nsince then been every hour in process of develop-\\nment.\\nColonel Boone seems to have been very happy in\\nhis new home. He still enjoyed his favorite pursuit of\\nhunting, for the forests around him were filled with\\ngame and with animals whose rich furs were every\\nyear becoming more valuable. The distinguished\\nnaturalist, J. J. Audubon, visited him in his solitary", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 295\\nretreat, and spent a night with him. In his Ornitho-\\nlogical Biography he gives the following narrative\\nwhich he received from, Boone, that evening as they\\nsat at the cabin fire. We give the story in the words\\nof the narrator\\nDaniel Boone, or as he was usually called in the\\nWestern country, Colonel Boone, happened to spend\\na night with me under the same roof, more than\\ntwenty years ago. We had returned from a shooting\\nexcursion, in the course of which his extraordinary\\nskill in the management of the rifle had been fully\\ndisplayed. On retiring to the room appropriated to\\nthat remarkable individual and myself for the night, I\\nfelt anxious to know more of his exploits and adven-\\ntures than I did, and accordingly took the liberty of\\nproposing numerous questions to him.\\nThe stature and general appearance of this wan-\\nderer 01 the western forests approached the gigantic.\\nHis chest was broad and prominent, his muscular\\npowers displayed themselves in every limb his\\ncountenance gave indication of his great courage,\\nenterprise and perseverance and when he spoke the\\nvery motion of his lips brought the impression that\\nwhatever he uttered could not be otherwise than\\nstrictly true. I undressed while he merely t\u00c2\u00a9ok off\\nhis hunting shirt and arranged a few folds of blankets\\non the floor, choosing rather to lie there, as be ob-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "296 DANIEL BOONE.\\nserved, than on the softest bed. When we had both\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2disposed of ourselves each after his own fashion, he\\nrelated to me the following account of his powers ot\\nmemory, which I lay before your kind reader in his\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2own words, hoping that the simplicity of his style\\n\u00c2\u00abnay prove interesting to you\\nI was once, said he, on a hunting expedition on\\nthe banks of the Green River, when the lower parts of\\nKentucky were still in the hands of nature, and rone\\nbut the sons of the soil were looked upon as its lawful\\nproprietors. We Virginians had for some time been\\nwaging a war of intrusion upon them, and I among\\nthe rest rambled through the woods in pursuit of\\ntheir race, as I now would follow the tracks of any\\nTavenous animal. The Indians outwitted me one dark\\nnight, and I was as unexpectedly as suddenly made a\\niprisoner by them.\\nThe trick had been managed with great skill;\\nfor no sooner had I extinguished the fire of my camp,\\n-and laid me down to rest in full security, as I thought,\\nthan I felt seized by an undistinguishable number of\\nhands, and was immediately pinioned as if about to be\\nled to the scaffold for execution. To have attempted\\nto be refractory would have proved useless and dan-\\ngerous to my life, and I suffered myself to be removed\\nfrom my camp to theirs, a few miles distant, without\\nuttering a word of complaint. You are aware. I dare-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 297\\nsay, that to act in this manner was the best policy, as\\nyou understand that by so doing, I proved to the\\nIndians at once that I was born and bred as fearless\\nof death as any of themselves.\\n*When we reached the camp great rejoicings were\\nexhibited. Two squaws and a few papooses appeared\\nparticularly delighted at the sight of me, and I was\\nassured by every unequivocal gesture and word that\\non the morrow the mortal enemy of the red skins\\nwould cease to live. I never opened my lips, but was\\nbusy contriving some scheme which might enable me\\nto give the rascals a slip before dawn. The women\\nimmediately fell a searching about my hunting shirt\\nfor whatever they might think valuable, and fortu-\\nnately for me soon found my flask filled with strong\\nwhiskey.\\nA terrific grin was exhibited on their murderous\\ncountenances, while my heart throbbed with joy at the\\nanticipation of their intoxication. The crew began\\nimmediately to beat their bellies and sing, as they\\npassed the bottle from mouth to mouth. How often\\ndid I wish the flask ten times its size and filled with\\naquafortis I observed that the squaws drank more\\nfreely than the warriors, and again my spirits were\\nabout to be depressed when the report of a gun was\\nheard at a distance. The Indians all jumped on their\\nfeet The singing and drinking were both brought to a", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "298 DANIEL BOONE.\\nstand, and I saw with inexpressible joy the men walk\\noff to some distance and talk to the squaws. I knew\\nthat they were consulting about me, and I foresaw\\nthat in a few moments the warriors would go to dis-\\ncover the cause of the gun having been fired so near\\ntheir camp. I expected that the squaws would be left\\nto guard me. Well, sir, it was just so. They returned,\\nthe men took up their guns and walked away. The\\nsquaws sat down again and in less than five minutes\\nhad my bottle up to their dirty mouths, gurgling\\ndown their throats the remains of the whiskey.\\nWith pleasure did I see them becoming more and\\nmore drunk, until the liquor took such hold of them\\nthat it was quite impossible for these women to be of\\nany service. They tumbled down, rolled about and\\nbegan to snore, when I, having no other chance of\\nfreeing myself from the cords that fastened me, rolled\\nover and over towards the fire, and after a short time\\nburned them asunder. I rose on my feet, snatched\\nup my rifle, and for once in my life spared that of\\nIndians. I now recollected how desirous I once or\\ntwice felt to lay open the skulls of the wretches with\\nmy tomahawk. But when I again thought upon\\nkilling beings unprepared and unable to defend\\nthemselves, it looked like murder without need, and J\\ngave up the idea.\\nBut,, sir, I felt determined to mark the spot, and", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 299\\nwalking to a thrifty ash sapling, I cut out of it three\\nlarge chips and ran off. I soon reached the river,\\nsoon crossed it, and threw myself into the cane-brakes,\\nimitating the tracks of an Indian with my feet, so that\\nno chance might be left for those from whom I had\\nescaped to overtake me.\\nIt is now nearly twenty years since this happened,\\nand more than five since I left the whites settlement,\\nwhirh I might never probably have visited again, had\\nI not been called upon as a witness in a law suit which\\nwas pending in Kentucky, and which I really believe\\nwould never have been settled had I not come forward\\nand established the beginning of a certain boundary\\nline. The story is this, bir\\nMr. moved from Old Virginia into Kentucky,\\nand having a large tract granted to him in the new\\nState, laid claim to a certain parcel of land adjoining\\nGreen River, and, as chance would have it, took for\\none of his corners the very ash tree on which I had\\nmade my mark, beginning, as it is expressed in the\\ndeed, At an ash marked by three distinct notches of\\nthe tomahawk of a white man.*\\nThe tree had grown much, and the bark had\\ncoveted the marks. But somehow or other Mi.\\nhad heard from some one all that I have already\\nsaid to you, and thinking that I might remember the\\nspot alluded to in the deed, but which was no longer", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "300 DANIEL BOONE.\\ndiscoverable, wrote for me to come and try at\\nleast to find the place or the tree. His letter men-\\ntioned that all my expenses should be paid and\\nnot caring much about once more going back to\\nKentucky, I started and met Mr. After some\\nconversation, the affair with the Indians came to my\\nrecollection. I considered for a while, and began to\\nthink that, after all, I could find the very spot, as well\\nas the tree, if it were yet standing.\\nMr. and I mounted our horses and off we\\nwent to the Green River bottoms. After some diffi-\\nculty for you must be aware, sir, that great changes\\nhave taken place in those woods I found at last the\\nspot where I had crossed the river, and waiting for\\nthe moon to rise, made for the course in which I\\nthought the ash trees grew. On approaching the\\nplace I felt as if the Indians were there still, and as if\\nI were still a prisoner among them. Mr. and I\\ncamped near what I conceived the spot, and waited\\njntil the return of day.\\nAt the rising of the sun I was on foot, and after a\\ngood deal of musing thought that an ash tree, then\\nin sight, must be the very one on which I had made\\nmy mark. I felt as if there could be no doubt about\\nit, and mentioned my thought to Mr.\\nWell, Colonel Boone, said he, if you think so I\\nhope that it may prove true, but we must have some", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 301\\nwitnesses. Do you stay hereabouts and I will go\\nanc bring some of the settlers whom I know.\\nI a^eed. Mr. trotted off, and I, to pass the\\ntime, rambled about to see if a deer was still living in\\nthe land. But ah sir, what a wonderful difference\\nthirty years makes in a country Why, at the time\\nwhen I was caught by the Indians, you would not\\nhave walked out in any direction more than a mile\\nwithout shooting a buck or a bear. There were then\\nthousands of buffaloes on the hills in Kentucky. The\\nland looked as if it never would become poor and\\nto hunt in those days was a pleasure indeed. But\\nwhen I was left to myself on the banks of Green\\nRiver, I daresay for the last time in my life, a few\\nsigns only of the deer were seen, and as to a deer\\nitself I saw none.\\nMr. returned, accompanied by three gentle-\\nmen. They looked upon me as if I had been Wash-\\nington himself, and walked to the ash tree, which I\\nnow called my own, as if in quest of a long lost\\ntreasure. I took an axe from one of them and cut a\\nfew chips off the bark. Still no signs were to be\\nseen So I cut again until I thought it time to be\\ncautious, and I scraped and worked away with my\\nbutcher knife until I did come to where my tomahawk\\nhad left an impression on the wood. We now went\\nregularly to work and scraped at the tree with care\\n20", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "302 DANIEL BOONE,\\nuntil three hacks, as plain as any three notches eveJ\\nwere, could be seen. Mr. and the other gentle-\\nmen were astonished, and I must allow that I was as\\nanuch surprised as pleased myself. I made affidavit\\nof this remarkable occurrence in presence of these\\ngentlemen. Mi. gained his cause. I left Green\\nRiver for ever, and came to where we are now and,\\nsir, I wish you a good night.\\nThe life of this wonderful man was filled with\\nsimilar adventures, many of which can now never be\\nrecalled. The following narrative will give the reader\\nan idea of the scenes which were continually occur-\\nring in those bloody conflicts between the white set-\\ntlers and the Indians\\nA widow was residing in a lonely log cabin, remote\\nfrom any settlers, in what is now Bourbon County,\\nKentucky. Her lonely hut consisted of but two\\nrooms. One, the aged widow occupied herself, with\\ntwo sons and a widowed daughter with an infant\\nchild the other was tenanted by her three unmarried\\ndaughters, the oldest of whom was twenty years of age.\\nIt was eleven o clock at night, and the members of\\nthe industrious family in their lonely habitation had\\nretired, with the exception of one of the daughters\\nand one of the sons who was keeping her company.\\nSome indications of danger had alarmed the young\\nman, though he kept his fears to himself.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 303\\nThe cry apparently of owls in an adjoining forest\\nwas heard, answering each other in rather an unusual\\nway. The horses in the enclosure by the side of the\\nhouse, who seemed to have an instinct informing them\\nof the approach of the Indians, seemed much excited\\nand galloped around snorting with terror. Soon steps\\nwere heard in the yard, and immediately several loud\\nknocks were made at the door, with some one enquir-\\ning, in good English, Who keeps this house The\\nyoung man very imprudently was just unbarring the\\ndoor when the mother sprang from the bed, exclaim-\\ning that they were Indians.\\nThe whole family was immediately aroused, and\\nthe young men seized their guns. The Indians now\\nthrew off all disguise, and began to thunder at the\\ndoor, endeavoring to break it down. Through a loop\\nhole prepared for such an emergency, a rifle shot,\\ndischarged at the savages, compelled a precipitate\\nretreat. Soon, however, they cautiously returned,\\nand attacking the other end of the cabin, where they\\nfound a point not exposed to the fire from within,\\nthey succeeded at length in breaking through, and\\nentered the room occupied by the three girls. One\\nof them they seized and bound. Her sister made\\ndesperate resistance, and stabbed one of the Indians\\nto the heart with a large knife which she was using at\\nthe loom. They immediately tomahawked her and", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "304 DANIEL BOONE.\\nshe fell dead upon the floor. The little girl in the\\ngloom of midnight they had overlooked. The poof\\nlittle thing ran out of the door, and might have\\nescaped had she not, in her terror, lost all self-control,\\nand ran round the house wringing her hands and\\ncrying bitterly.\\nThe brothers, agonized by the cries of their little\\nsister, were just about opening the door to rush out\\nto her rescue, when their more prudent mother de-\\nclared that the child must be abandoned to its fate,\\nthat any attempt to save her would not only be\\nunavailincr, but would ensure the certain destruction\\nof them all. Just then the child uttered a most\\nfrantic scream They heard the dull sound as of a\\ntomahawk falling upon the brain. There were a few\\nconvulsive moans, and all again was silent. It was\\nbut too evident to all what these sounds signified.\\nPresently the crackling of flames was heard, and\\nthrough the port-holes could be seen the glare of the\\nrising conflagration, while the shouts of the savages\\ngrew more exultant. They had set fire to the end of\\nthe building occupied by the daughters. The logs\\nwere dry as tinder, and the devouring element was\\nsoon enveloping the whole building in its fatal\\nembrace. To remain in the cabin was certain death,\\nin its most appalling form. In rushing out there was\\na bare possibility that some might escape. There was", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. JOJ\\nno time for reflection. The hot stifling flames and\\nsmotxiering smoke were rolling in upon them, when\\nthey opened the door and rushed out into the outer\\nair, endeavoring as soon as possible to reach the\\ngloom of the forest.\\nThe old lady, aided by her eldest son, ran in one\\ndirection towards a fence, while the other daughter,\\nwith her infant in her arms, accompanied by the\\nyounger of the brothers, ran in another direction. The\\nfire was blazing so fiercely as to shed all around the\\nlight of day. The old lady had just reached the fence\\nwhen several rifle balls pierced her body and she fell\\ndead. Her son almost miraculously escaped, and\\nleaping the fence plunged into the forest. The other\\nparty was pursued by the Indians, with loud yells.\\nThrowing down their guns which they had discharged,\\nthe savages rushed upon the young man and his sister\\nwith their gleaming tomahawks. Gallantly the brother\\ndefended his sister firing upon the savages as they\\ncame rushing on, and then assailing them with the\\nbutt of his musket which he wielded with the fury of\\ndespair. He fought with such herculean strength as\\nto draw the attention of all the savages upon himself,\\nand thus gave his sister an opportunity of escaping.\\nHe soon however fell beneath their tomahawks, and\\nwas in the morning found scalped and mangled in the\\nmost shocking manner.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "306 DANIEL BOONE.\\nOf this family of eight persons two only escaped\\nfrom this awful scene of midnight massacre. The\\nneighborhood was immediately aroused. The secorid\\ndaughter was carried off a captive by the savages.\\nThe fate of the poor girl awakened the deepest sym-\\npathy, and by daylight thirty men were assembled\\non horseback, under the command of Col. Edwards,\\nto pursue the Indians. Fortunately a light snow had\\nfallen during the night. Thus it was impossible for\\nthe savages to conceal their trail, and they were fol-\\nlowed on the full gallop. The wretches knew full well\\nthat they would not be allowed to retire unmolested\\nThey fled with the utmost precipitation, seeking to\\ngain the mountainous region which bordered upon\\nthe Licking River.\\nA hound accompanied the pursuing party. The\\nsagacious animal was very eager in the chase. As\\nthe trail became fresh, and the scent indicated that\\nthe foe was nearly overtaken, the hound rushing\\nforward, began to bay very loudly. This gave the\\nIndians the alarm. Finding the strength of their\\ncaptive failing, so that she could no longer continue\\nthe rapid flight, they struck their tomahawks into\\nher brain, and left her bleeding and dying upon the\\nsnow. Her friends soon came up and found her in\\nthe convulsions of death. Her brother sprang from\\nhis horse and tried in vq n to stop the eftusion ol", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 307\\nblood. She seemed to recognize him, gave him her\\nhand, uttered a few inarticulate words, and died.\\nThe pursuit was then continued with new ardor,\\nand in about twenty minutes the avenging white m ^n\\ncame within sight of the savages. With considerable\\nmilitary sagacity, the Indians had taken position\\nupon a steep and narrow ridge, and seemed desirous\\nof magnifying their numbers in the eyes of their\\npursuers by running from tree to tree and making\\nthe forest resound with their hideous yells. The\\npursuers were, however, too well acquainted with\\nIndian warfare to be deceived by this childish artifice.\\nThey dismounted, tied their horses, and endeavored\\nto surround the enemy, so as to cut off his retreat.\\nbut the cunning Indians, leaving two of their number\\nbehind to delay the pursuit by deceiving the white\\nmen into the conviction that they all were there, fled\\nto the mountains. One of this heroic rear-guard\\nfor remaining under the circumstances was the almost\\ncertain surrender of themselves to death was instantly\\nshot. The other, badly wounded, was tracked for a\\nlong distance by his blood upon the snow. At length\\nhis trail was lost in a running stream. Night came,\\na dismal night of rain, long and dark. In the morn-\\ning the snow had melted, every trace of the retteat\\nof the enemy was obliterated, and the further pursuit\\nof the foe was relinquished.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "308 DANIEL BOONE.\\nColonel Boone, deprived of his property by the\\nunrelenting processes of pitiless law, had left Ken-\\ntucky impoverished and in debt. His rifle was almost\\nthe only property he took with him beyond the Mis-\\nsissippi. The rich acres which had been assigned to\\nhim there were then of but little more value than so\\nmany acres of the sky. Though he was so far away\\nfrom his creditors that it was almost impossible that\\nthey should ever annoy him, still the honest-hearted\\nman was oppressed by the consciousness of his debts,\\nand was very anxious to pay them. The forests were\\nfull of game, many of the animals furnishing very\\nvaluable furs. He took his rifle, some pack-horses,\\nand, accompanied by a single black servant boy,\\nrepaired to the banks of the Osage River to spend\\nthe winter in hunting. Here he was taken danger-\\nously sick, and was apprehensive that he should die.\\nWe know not what were his religious thoughts upon\\nthis occasion, but his calmness in view of death, taken\\nin connection with his blameless, conscientious, and\\nreflective life, and with the fact that subsequently he\\nbecame an openly avowed disciple of Jesus, indicate\\nthat then he found peace in view of pardoned sin\\nthrough faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ. He\\npointed out to the black boy the place where, should\\nhe die, he wished to be buried. He gave very minute\\ndirections in reference to his burial and the disposal", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 309\\nof his rifle, blankets, and peltry. Mr. Peck in the\\nfollowing language describes this interesting incident\\nin the life of the pioneer\\nOn another occasion he took pack-horses and\\nwent to the country on the Osage river, taking for a\\ncamp-keeper a negro boy about twelve or fourteen\\nyears of age. Soon after preparing his camp and\\nlaying in his supplies for the winter, he was taken\\nsick and lay a long time in camp. The horses were\\nhobbled out on the range. After a period of stormy\\nweather, there came a pleasant and delightful day,\\nand Boone felt able to walk out. With his staff for\\nhe was quite feeble he took the boy to the summit\\nof a small eminence and marked out the ground in\\nshape and size of a grave, and then gave the following\\ndirections.\\nHe instructed the boy, in case of his death, to\\nwash and lay his body straight, wrapped up in one of\\nthe cleanest blankets. He was then to construct a\\nkind of shovel, and with that instrument and the\\nhatchet to dig a grave exactly as he had marked it\\nout. He was then to drag the body to the place and\\nput it in the grave, which he was directed to cover up,\\nputting posts at the head and foot. Poles were to\\nbe placed around and above the surface, the trees to\\nbe marked so that the place could be easily found by\\nhis friends the horses were to be caught, the blankets", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "310 DANIEL BOONE.\\nand skins gathered up, with some special instructions\\nabout the ^Id rifle, and various messages to his family.\\nAll these directions were given, as the boy afterwards\\ndeclared, with entire calmness, and as if he were giving\\ninstructions about ordinary business. He soon recov-\\nered, broke up his camp, and returned homeward\\nwithout the usual signs of a winter s hunt.\\nOne writer says Colonel Boone went on a trapping\\nexcursion up the Grand River. This stream rises in\\nthe southern part of Iowa, and flows in a southerly\\ncourse into the Missouri. He was entirely alone.\\nPaddling his canoe up the lonely banks of the\\nMissouri, he entered the Grand River, and established\\nhis camp in a silent sheltered cove, where an expe-\\nrienced hunter would with difficulty find it.\\nHere he first laid in his supply of venison, turkeys\\nand bear s meat, and then commenced his trapping\\noperation, where no sound of his rifle would disturb\\nthe beavers and no smell of gunpowder would excite\\ntheir alarm. Every morning he took the circuit of\\nhis traps, visiting them all in turn. Much to his\\nalarm, he one morning encountered a large encamp-\\nment of Indians in his vicinity, engaged in hunting.\\nHe immediately retreated to his camp and secreted\\nhimself Fortunately for him, quite a deep snow fell\\nthat night, which covered his traps. But this same\\nsnow prevented him from leaving his camp, lest hi*", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 31I\\nfootprints should be discovered. For twenty days he\\ncontinued thus secreted, occasionally, at midnight,\\nventuring to cook a little food, when there was no\\ndanger that the smoke of his fire would reveal his\\nretreat. At length the enemy departed, and he was\\nreleased from his long imprisonment. He subse-\\nquently stated that never in his life had he felt so\\nmuch anxiety for so long a period, lest the Indians\\nshould discover his traps and search out his camp.\\nIt seems that the object of Colonel Boone in these\\nlong hunting excursions was to obtain furs that he\\nmight pay the debts which he still owed in Kentucky.\\nA man of less tender conscience would no longer\\nhave troubled himself about them. He was far\\nremoved from any importunity on the part of his\\ncreditors, or from any annoyance through the law.\\nStill his debts caused him much solicitude, and he\\ncould not rest in peace until they were fully paid.\\nAfter two or three seasons of this energetic hunting,\\nColonel Boone succeeded in obtaining a sufficient\\nquantity of furs to enable him, by their sale, to pay\\nall his debts. With this object in view, he set out on\\nhis long journey of several hundred miles, through an\\nalmost trackless wilderness, to Kentucky. He saw\\nevery creditor and paid every dollar. Upon his\\nreturn, Colonel Boone had just one half dollar in his\\npocket. But he said triumphantly to his friends", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "312 DANIEL BOONE.\\nNow I am ready and willing to die. I am relieved\\nfrom a burden which has long oppressed me. I have\\npaid all my debts, and no one will say when I am\\ngone, Boone was a dishonest man.* I am perfectly\\nwilling to die.\\nIn the year 1803, the territory west of the Missis-\\nsippi came into the possession of the United States.\\nThe whole region, embracing what is now Missouri,\\nwas then called the territory of Louisiana. Soon after\\nthis a commission was appointed, consisting of three\\nable and impartial men, to investigate the validity of\\nthe claims to land granted by the action of the\\nSpanish Government. Again poor Boone was caught\\nin the meshes of the law. It was found that he had\\nnot occupied the land which had been granted him,\\nthat he had not gone to New Orleans to perfect his\\ntitle, and that his claim was utterly worthless.\\nPoor Boone Seventy-four years old, and the\\nsecond grasp you have made upon the West has been\\npowerless. You have risked life, and lost the life next\\ndearest your own for the West. In all its fearful\\nforms, death has looked you in the face^ and you have\\nmoved on to conquer the soil which you did but\\nconquer, that it might be denied to you. You hsTC\\nbeen the architect of the prosperity of others, but\\nyour own crumbles each time as you are about to\\noccupy it When he lost his f?4rm in Boonesborough;", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 313\\nhe did not Unger around in complainings, but went\\nquietly away, returning only to fulfil the obligations\\nhe had incurred. And now this last decision came,\\neven at old age, to leave Daniel Boone, the Pioneer of\\nthe West, unable to give a title deed to a solitary\\nacre.\\nThe fur trade was at this time very lucrative.\\nMany who were engaged in it accumulated large\\nfortunes. It was in this traffic that John Jacob Astor\\nlaid the foundations of his immense wealth. A guide\\nof Major Long stated that he purchased of an Indian\\none hundred and twenty beaver skins for two blankets,\\ntwo gallons of rum, and a pocket mirror. The skins\\nhe took to Montreal, where he sold them for over four\\nhundred dollars.\\nIn the employment of the fur companies the\\ntrappers are of two kinds, called the hired hand,\\nand the free trapper. The former is employed by\\nthe month, receiving regular wages, and bringing in\\nall the furs which he can obtain. Be they more or\\nJiess, he receives his stipulated monthly wages. The\\nfree trapper is supplied by the company with traps\\nand certain other conveniences with which he plunges\\ninto the forest on his own hook\u00c2\u00bb engaging however\\nLife of Boone, by W. H. Bogart, p. 369.\\n27", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "314 DANIEL BOONE.\\nto sell to the company, at a stipulated price, whatever\\nfurs he may secure.\\nThe outfit of the trapper as he penetrated the vast\\nand trackless region of gloomy forests, treeless prairies,\\nand solitary rivers, spreading everywhere around him,\\ngenerally consisted of two or three horses, one for the\\nsaddle and the others for packs containing his equip-\\nment of traps, ammunition, blankets, cooking utensils,\\nc., for passing lonely months in the far away solitudes.\\nHe would endeavor to find, if possible, a region which\\nneither the white man nor the Indian had ever visited.\\nThe dress of the hunter consisted of a strong shirt\\nof well-dressed and pliant buckskin, ornamented with\\nlong fringes. The vanity of dress, if it may be so\\ncalled, followed him into regions where no eye but his\\nown could see its beauties. His pantaloons were also\\nmade of buckskin decorated with variously-colored\\nporcupine quills and with long fringes down the out-\\nside of the leg. Moccasins, often quite gorgeously\\nembroidered, fitted closely to his feet. A very flexible\\nhat or cap covered his head, generally of felt,\\nobtained from some Indian trader. There was sus-\\npended over his left shoulder, so as to hang beneath\\nhis right arm, a powder horn and bullet pouch. In\\nthe latter he carried balls, flints, steel, and various\\nodds and ends. A long heavy rifle he bore upon liis\\nshoulder.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 315^\\nA belt of buckskin buckled tightly around the\\nwaist, held a large butcher knife in a sheath of\\nstout buffalo hide, and also a buckskin case contcining\\na whet-stone. A small hatchet or tomahawk was also\\nattached to this belt. Thus rigged and in a new\\ndress the hunter of good proportions presented a very\\npicturesque aspect. With no little pride he exhibited\\nhimself at the trading posts, where not only the squaws\\nand the children, but veteran hunters and Indiaa\\nbraves contemplated his person with admiration.\\nThus provided the hunter, more frequently alone\\nbut sometimes accompanied by two or three others,\\nset out for the mountain streams, as early in the spring\\nas the melting ice would enable him to commence\\noperations against the beaver.\\nArrived on his hunting ground he carefully ascends\\nsome creek or stream, examining the banks with prac-\\nticed eye to discern any sign of the presence of\\nbeaver or of any other animal whose fur would prove\\nvaluable. If a cotton-wood tree lies prostrate he\\nexamines it to see if it has been cut down by the\\nsharp tooth of the beaver and if so whether it ha\u00c2\u00bb\\nbeen cut down for food or to furnish material for\\ndamming a stream. If the track of a beaver is seen\\nin the mud, he follows the track until he finds a good\\nplace to set his steel trap in the run of the animal^\\nhiding it under water and carefully attaching it by a*", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "3i6\\nDANIEL BOONE.\\nchain to a bush or tree, or to some picket driven into\\nthe bank. A float strip is also made fast to the trap,\\nso that should the beaver chance to break away with\\nihe trap, this float upon the surface, at the end of a\\ncord a few feet long, would point out the position of\\nthe trap.\\nWhen a lodge is discovered the trap is set at\\nthe edge of the dam, at the point where the animal\\npasses from deep to shoal water. Early in the morn-\\ning the hunter always mounts his mule and examines\\nthe traps. The captured animals are skinned, and the\\ntails, which are a great dainty, carefully packed into\\ncamp. The skin is then stretched over a hoop or\\nframe-work of osier twigs and is allowed to dry, the\\nflesh and fatty substance being carefully scraped off.\\nWhen dry it is folded into a square sheet, the fur\\nturned inward, and the bundle, containing from about\\nten to twenty skins, lightly pressed and corded, is ready\\nfor transportation.\\nDuring the hunt, regardless of Indian vicinity, the\\nfearless trapper wanders far and near in search of\\nsign. His nerves must ever be in a state of tension\\nand his mind ever present at his call. His eagle eye\\nsweeps around the country, and in an instant detects\\nany foreign appearance. A turned leaf, a blade oi\\ngrass pressed down, the uneasiness of wild animals,\\nthe flight of birds, are all paragraphs to him written", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 317\\nin nature s Icgiole hand and plainest language. All the\\nwits of the subtle savage are called into play to gain\\nan advantage over the wily woodsman but with the\\ninstinct of the primitive man, the white hunter has the\\nadvantage of a civilised mind, and thus provided\\nseldom fails to outwit, under equal advantages, the\\ncunning savage.\\nSometimes the Indian following on his trai)\\nwatches him set his traps on a shrub-belted stream,\\nand passing up the bed, like Bruce of old, so that he\\nmay leave no track, he lies in wait in the bushes until\\nthe hunter comes to examine. Then waiting until he\\napproaches his ambush within a few feet, whiz flies\\nthe home-drawn arrow, never failing at such close\\nquarters to bring the victim to the ground. For one\\nwhite scalp, however, that dangles in the smoke of an\\nIndian lodge, a dozen black ones at the end of the\\nhunt ornament the camp-fire of the rendezvous.\\nAt a certain time when the hunt is over, or they\\nhave loaded their pack animals, the trappers proceed\\ntc their rendezvous, the locality of which has been\\npreviously agreed upon and here the traders and\\nagents of the fur companies await them, with such\\nassortments of goods as their hardy customers may\\nrequire, including generally a fair supply of alcohol\\nThe trappers drop in singly and in small bands,\\nbringing their packs 01 beaver to this mountain", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "3l8 DANIEL BOONE.\\nmarket, not unfrequently to the value of a thousand\\ndollars each, the produce of one hunt. The dissipation\\nof the rendezvous, however, soon turns the trapper s\\npocket inside out. The goods brought by the traders,\\nalthough of the most inferior quality, are sold at\\nenormous prices. Coffee twenty and thirty shillings a\\npint cup, which is the usual measure tobacco fetches\\nten and fifteen shillings a plug alcohol from twenty\\nto fifty shillings a pint gun-powder sixteen shillings\\na pint cup, and all other articles at proportionately\\nexhorbitant prices.\\nThe rendezvous is one continued scene of drunken-\\nness, gambling, brawling and fighting, so long as the\\nmoney and credit of the trappers last. Seated Indian\\nfashion around the fires, with a blanket spread before\\nthem, groups are seen with their decks of cards\\nplaying at euchre, poker, and seven-up, the\\nregular mountain games. The stakes are beaver,\\nwhich is here current coin and when the fur is gone,\\ntheir horses, mules, rifles and shirts, hunting packs and\\nbreeches are staked. Daring gamblers make the\\nrounds of the camp, challenging each other to play\\nfor the highest stake his horse, his squaw if he\\nhave one, and as once happened his scalp. A trapper\\noften squanders the produce of his hunt, amounting to\\nhundreds of dollars, in a couple of hours and supplied\\non credit with another equipment, leaves the rendez-", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "A NEW HOME. 3I9\\nvous for another expedition which has the same result,\\ntime after time, although one tolerably successful\\nhunt would enable him to return to the settlements\\nand civilised life with an ample sum to purchase and\\nstock a farm, and enjoy himself in ease and comfort\\nfor the remainder of his days.\\nThese annual gatherings are often the scene of\\nbloody duels, for over their cups and cards no men\\nare more quarrelsome than your mountaineers. Rifles\\nat twenty paces settle all differences, and as may be\\nimagined, the fall of one or other of the combatants\\nis certain, or, as sometimes happens, both fall at the\\nsame fire.\\nBuxton s Travels.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIV.\\nConclusion.\\nColonel Boone Appeals to Congress. Complimentary R(\u00c2\u00abolatlon8 oi\\nthe Legflslature of Kentucky. Death of Mrs. Boone. Catholic\\nLiberality. Itinerant Preachers. Grant by Congress to Colonel\\nBoone The Evening of his Days. Personal Appearance. Death\\nand Burial. ^Transference of the Remains of Mr, and Mi s, Boone\\nto Frankfort, Kentucky,\\nColonel Boone having lost all his property, sent in\\na memorial, by the advice of his friends, to the\\nLegislature of Kentucky, and also another to Congress.\\nKentucky was now a wealthy and populous State,\\nand was not at all indisposed to recognise the\\ninvaluable services she had received from Colonel\\nBoone. In allusion to these services Governor\\nMoorehead said\\nIt is not assuming too much to declare, that\\nwithout Colonel Boone, in all probability the settle-\\nments could not have been upheld and the conquest\\nof Kentucky might have been reserved for the\\nemigrants of the nineteenth century.\\nWhat obstacle stood in the way of a liberal grant\\nof land by the Kentucky Legislature we do not know.\\nWe simply know that by a unanimous vote of that\\nbody, the following preamble and resolution were\\npassed\\n(820)", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "CONCLUSION. 32 B\\nThe Legislature of Kentucky, taking into view\\nthe many eminent services rendered by Colonel\\nBoone, in exploring and settling the western country^\\nfrom which great advantages have resulted, not only\\nto this State, but to this country in general, and that\\nfrom circumstances over which he had no control, he\\nis now reduced to poverty; not having, so far as\\nappears, an acre of land out of the vast territory he\\nhas been a great instrument in peopling believing\\nalso that it is as unjust as it is impolitic, that useful\\nenterprise and eminent services should go unrewarded\\nby a Government where merit confers the only dis-\\ntinction and having sufficient reason to believe that\\na grant of ten thousand acres of land, which he claims\\nin Upper Louisiana, would have been confirmed by\\nthe SpanishGovemment,had not said territory passed\\nby cession into the hands of the General Government;,\\ntherefore\\nResolved by the General Assembly of the Com-\\nmonwealth of Kentucky: That our Senators in\\nCongress be requested to make use of their exertions\\nto procure a grant of land in said territory to said\\nBoone, either the ten thousand acres to which he\\nappears to have an equitable claim, from the grounds\\nset forth to this Legislature, by way of confirmation,\\nor to such quantity in such place as shall be deemed\\nmost advisable by way of donation.", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "J22 DANIEL BOONE.\\nWhile this question was pending before Congress\\nColonel Boone met with the heaviest grief he had\\nthus far encountered. In the month of March, 1813,\\nhis wife, whom he tenderly loved, died at the age of\\nseventy-six. She had been one of the best of wives and\\nmothers, seeking in all things to coniform to the wishes\\nof her husband, and aid him in his plans. She was a de-\\nvoted wife and a loving mother. Colonel Boone selected\\nupon the summit of a ridge the place for her burial,\\nand marked out the spot for his own grave by her side.\\nWe have no means of knowing what were the\\nreligious views which sustained Mrs. Roone in her\\ndying hour. Her life was passed in the discharge of\\nthe humble duties of a home in the wilderness, and\\nshe had no biographer. But we do know that the\\nreligion of Jesus had penetrated many of these remote\\ncabins, and had ennobled the lives of many of these\\nhardy pioneers.\\nUnder the Spanish Government, the Roman Catho-\\nlic Religion was the established religion of the province,\\nand none other was openly tolerated. Still, the\\nauthorities were so anxious to encourage emigration\\nfrom the United States, that they avoided any rigorous\\nenforcement of the law. Each emigrant was required\\nto be a good Catholic, un bon Catholique. But by\\nconnivance of the authorities, only a few genera]\\nquestions were asked, such as", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "CONCLUSION. 323\\nDo you believe in Almighty God in the Holy\\nTrinity in the true Apostolic Church in Jesus\\nChrist our Saviour in the Holy Evangelists\\nThe ceremony was closed by the declaration that\\nthe applicant was tin bon Catholique. Thus many\\nProtestant families entered the Spanish territory, and\\nremaaned undisturbed in their religious principles.\\nProtestant clergymen crossed over the Mississippi\\nriver and, unmolested, preached the gospel in the log\\ncabins of the settlers. The Catholic priests received\\ntheir salaries from the Spanish crown, and no taxes\\nfor religion were imposed.\\nThe Reverend John Clark, a very zealous Christian\\nminister, made monthly excursions to the Spanish\\nterritory. The commandant at St. Louis, Mr. Trudeau,\\nwould take no notice of his presence till the time\\nwhen he knew that Mr. Clark was about to leave.\\nThen he would send a threatening message ordering\\nhim to leave within three days. One of the emigrants,\\nMr. Murich, of the Baptist persuasion, petitioned for\\npermission to hold religious meetings at his house and\\nto have Mr. Clark preach. Mr. Trudeau replied\\nYou must not put a bill upon your house, or call\\n!t a church. But if any of your friends choose to\\nmeet at your house, sing, pray, and talk about religion,\\nyou will not be molested provided you continue, as I\\niuppose you are, U7i bo?i Catholique", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "324 DANIEL BOONE.\\nThus, in reality, there was scarcely any restrahit In\\nthose remote regions, even under the Spanish regime,\\nimposed upon religious freedom. Christian song^\\nthe penitential and the triumphant, often ascended,\\nblended with prayers and praises from these lonely\\nand lowly homes in the wilderness. Thus characters\\nwere formed for heaven, and life was ennobled, and\\noften far more of true nobility of soul and more real\\nand satisfying enjoyment were found in those log\\nhuts, illumined only by the blaze of the pitch pine\\nknot, than Louis XIV. and his courtiers ever ex-\\nperienced amidst the splendors and the luxuries of\\nVersailles and of Marly.\\nWe do not know that Colonel Boone ever made a\\npublic profession of his faith in Christ, though some-\\nwhere we have seen it stated that he died an honored\\nmember of the Methodist Church. It is certain that\\nthe religious element predominated in his nature. He\\nwas a thoughtful, serious, devout, good man. He\\nwalked faithfully in accordance with the light and the\\nprivileges which were conferred upon him in his sin-\\ngularly adventurous life.\\nColonel Boone was seventy-nine years of age when\\nCongress conferred upon him a grant of eight hundred\\nand fifty acres of land. He had never repined at his\\nlot, had never wasted his breath in unavailing mur-\\nmurs. He contentedly took life as it came, and was", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "CONCLUSION. 325\\never serene and cheerful. But this grant of land,\\nthough it came so late, greatly cheered him. He was\\nno longer dependent upon others. He had property\\nirapidly increasing in value to leave to the children\\nand the grand-children he so tenderly loved. His\\naged limbs would no longer allow him to expose him-\\nself to the vicissitudes of hunting, and he took up his\\nabode with one of his sons, enjoying, perhaps, as\\nserene and happy an old age as ever fell to the lot of\\nmortals. His conversation often gathered charmed\\nlisteners around him, for he had a very retentive\\nmemory, and his mind was crowded with the incidents\\nof his romantic career. It is said that at this period\\nof his life an irritable expression never escaped his\\nlips. His grand-children vied with each other in\\naffectionate attentions to one whom they ardently\\nloved, and of whose celebrity they were justly proud.\\nColonel Calloway, the gentleman whose two\\ndaughters were captured, with one of the daughters\\nof Colonel Boone, in a boat by the Indians, which\\nevent our readers will recall to mind, visited Colonel\\nBoone in Missouri about this time. He gives a very\\npleasing description of the gentle and genial old man,\\nas he then found him.\\nHis personal appearance was venerable and attrac-\\ntive, verj neatly clad in garments spun, woven, and\\nmade in the cabin His own room consisted of a", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "526 DANIEL BOONE.\\ncabin by itself, and was in perfect order. Hii\\ncountenance was pleasant, calm, and fair, his foreliead\\nhigh and bold, and the soft silvei of his hair in unison\\n\u00c2\u00abvith his length of days. He spoke feelingly and\\nwith solemnity of being a creature of Providence,\\nordained by heaven as a pioneer in the wilderness to\\nadvance the civilization and the extension of his\\ncountry. He professed the belief that the Almighty\\nhad assigned to him a work to perform, and that he\\nhad only followed the pathway of duty in the work\\nhe had pursued that he had discharged his duty to\\nGod and his country by following the direction of\\nProvidence. His stormy day of life had passed away\\ninto an evening of unusual beauty and serenity.\\nStill he was continually busy, engaged in innu-\\nmerable acts of kindness for his neighbors and his\\nfriends. He could repair rifles, make and carve\\npowder horns of great beauty, and could fashion\\nmoccasins and snowshoes of the most approved\\npatterns. His love for the solitude of the wilderness,\\nand for the excitement of the hunter s life, continued\\nunabated. He loved to cut tender slices of venison,\\nand to toast them upon the end of his ramrod ovcf\\nthe glaring coals of his cabin fire, finding in that\\nrepast a treat more delicious than any gourmand\\never yet experienced in the viands of the most costly\\nrestaurants of the Palais Royal, or the Boulevaid*", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "CONCLUSION. 327\\nUpon one occasion he could not resist the impulse\\nof again going hunting, though in the eighty-second\\nyear of his age. Exacting from his friends the pro-\\nmise that should he die, his remains should be brought\\nback and buried by the side of those of his wife, he\\ntook a boy with him and went to the mouth of the\\nKansas River, where he remained two weeks.\\nReturning from this, his last expedition, he visited\\nhis young v:st son. Major Nathan Boone, who had reared\\na comfortable stone house in that remote region, to\\nwhich emigrants were now rapidly moving. Here he\\ndied after an illnes? of but three days, on the 26th\\nday of September, 1820. He was then eighty-six\\nyears of age.\\nSoon after the death of his wife, Colonel Boone\\nmade his own coffin, which he kept under his bed\\nawaiting the day of his burial. In this coffin he was\\nburied by the side of his wife. Missouri, though very\\ndifferent from the Missouri of the present day, was no\\nlonger an unpeopled wilderness. The Indians had\\nretired thousands of emigrants had flocked to its\\nfertile plains, and many thriving settlements had\\nsprung up along the banks of its magnificent streams.\\nThe great respect with which Colonel Boone was\\niegarded by his fellow-citizens, was manifest in the\\nlarge numbers who were assembled at his burial.\\nThe Legislature of Missouri, which chanced then to", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "328 DANIEL BOONE.\\nbe in session, adjourned for one day, in respect for\\nhis memory, and passed a resolve that all the members\\nshould wear a badge of mourning for twenty days.\\nThis was the first Legislature of the new State.\\nColonel Boone was the father of nine children, five\\nBons and four daughters. His two eldest sons were\\nkilled by the Indians. His third son, Daniel Morgan\\nBoone, had preceded his father in his emigration to\\nthe Upper Louisiana, as it was then called, and had\\ntaken up his residence in the Femme Osage settle-\\nment. He became a man of influence and comparative\\nwealth, and attained the advanced age of fourscore.\\nJesse, the fourth son, also emigrated to Upper\\nLouisiana about the year 1806, where he died a few\\nyears after. The youngest son, Nathan, whose\\nprivilege it was to close his father s eyes in death, had\\nfound a home beyond the Mississippi he became a\\nman of considerable note, and received the commission\\nof Captain in the United States Dragoons. The\\ndaughters, three of whom married, lived and died in\\nKentucky.\\nIn the meantime Kentucky, which Boone had\\nfound a pathless wilderness, the hunting ground of\\nIndians who were scarcely less wild and savage\\nthan the beasts they pursued in the chase, was\\nrapidly becoming one of the most populous, wealtliy\\nand prosperous States in the Union. Upon the eastern", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "CONCLUSION. 329\\nbank of the Kentucky River, the beautiful city of\\nFrankfort had risen surrounded by remarkably roman-\\ntic and splendid scenery. It had become the capital\\nof the State, and was situated about sixty miles from\\nthe entrance of the Kentucky into the Ohio River.,\\nMany of the houses were tastefully built of brick or\\nof marble, and the place was noted for its polished,\\nintelligent; and hospitable society.\\nIt was but a few miles above Frankfort upon this\\nsame river that Colonel Boone had reared the log\\nfort of Boonesborough, when scarcely a white man\\ncould be found west of the AUeghanies. In the year\\n1845, th^ citizens of Frankfort, having, in accordance\\nwith the refinements of modem tastes, prepared a\\nbeautiful rural cemetery in the suburbs of their town,\\nresolved to consecrate it by the interment of the\\nremains of Daniel Boone and his wife. The Legis-\\nlature, appreciating the immense obligations of the\\nState to the illustrious pioneer, co-operated with the\\ncitizens of Frankfort in this movement. For twenty\\nfive years the remains of Col. Boone and his wife had\\nbeen mouldering in the grave upon the banks of the\\nMissouri.\\nThere seemed, said one of the writers of that day,\\n**to be a peculiar propriety in this testimonial of the\\nveneration borne by the Commonwealth for the\\nmemory of its illustrious dead. And it was fitting", "height": "3241", "width": "1993", "jp2-path": "danielboonepione01abbo_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "330 DANIEL BOONE.\\nthat the soil of Kentucky should afford the final\\nresting place for his remains, whose blood in life had\\nbeen so often shed to protect it from the fury of\\nsavage hostility. It was the beautiful and touching\\nmanifestation of filial affection shown by children to\\nthe memory of a beloved parent and it was right that\\nthe generation which was reaping the fruits of his\\ntoils and dangers should desire to have in their midst\\nand decorate with the tokens of their love, the sepul-\\nchre of this Primeval Patriarch whose stout heart\\nwatched by the cradle of this now powerful Common-\\nwealth.\\nThe honored remains of Daniel Boone and his wife\\nwere brought from Missouri to Frankfort, and the\\nre-interment took place on the 13th of September,\\n1845. The funeral ceremonies were very imposing.\\nColonel Richard M. Johnson, who had been Vice-\\nPresident of the United States, and others of the most\\ndistinguished citizens of Kentucky, officiated as pall-\\nbearers. The two coffins were garlanded with flowers,\\nand an immenjs^e procession followed them to their\\nfinal resting place. The Hon. John J. Crittenden,\\nwho was regarded as the most eloquent man in the\\nState, pronounced the funeral oration. 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