Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer: Comprising an Account of His Early History, His Daring and Remarkable Career as the First Settler of Kentucky ...J. E. Potter, 1865 - 351 páginas |
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adventurers alarm arrived attack AUTOBIOGRAPHY battle began Blue Licks Boone and Stuart Boone's Boonesborough brother Bryant's Station cabin Callaway camp canebrake Captain Cherokees Clark Clinch River Colonel Boone colony command commenced companions Creek Cumberland Cumberland Gap Cumberland River Daniel Boone deer dians distance Dunmore early emigrants enemy erected escape Exeter expedition Finley fire forest frontier garrison George Boone George Rogers Clark Girty Governor Governor Dunmore Harrodsburg Henderson horses hostile hundred hunter hunting immediately instantly Kenton Kentuckians Kentucky River killed land Logan logs ments miles mountains night North Carolina Ohio party of Indians Peck pioneer prisoners pursued rendered residence retreat returned Richard Callaway rifle savages settle settlements settlers Shawanese side Simon Girty soon Squire Boone squirrels Tennessee tion tomahawk took town traders tree tribes tucky valley Virginia warriors West Western whites wild wilderness woods wounded Yadkin
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Página 9 - Motion was in their days, rest in their slumbers, And cheerfulness the handmaid of their toil : Nor yet too many nor too few their numbers ; Corruption could not make their hearts her soil ; The lust which stings, the splendour which encumbers, With the free foresters divide no spoil : Serene, not sullen, were the solitudes Of this unsighing people of the woods.
Página 123 - I have known Boone in times of old, when poverty and distress had him fast by the hand: and in these wretched circumstances, I have ever found him of a noble and generous soul, despising every thing mean; and therefore I will freely grant him a discharge for whatever sums of mine he might have been possessed of at the time.
Página 79 - My advice to you, sir, is to come or send as soon as possible. Your company is desired greatly, for the people are very uneasy, but are willing to stay and venture their lives with you, and now is the time to flusterate their intentions and keep the country, whilst we are in it.
Página 79 - This day we start from the battle ground, for the mouth of Otter Creek, where we shall immediately erect a Fort, which will be done before you can come or send, then we can send ten men to meet you, if you send for them.
Página 312 - I never before was under greater necessity of exercising philosophy and fortitude. A few days I passed uncomfortably. Tha idea of a beloved wife and family, and their anxiety upon the account of my absence and exposed situation, made sensible impressions on my heart.
Página 167 - Girty,' in consequence of his striking resemblance to the man of that name ; that if he had either artillery or reinforcements, he might bring them up and be d — d ; that if either himself or any of the naked rascals with him found their way into the fort, they would disdain to use their guns against them, but would drive them out again with switches, of which they had collected a great number for that purpose alone ; and, finally, he declared that they also expected reinforcements ; that the whole...
Página 43 - We walked out together, and followed the rocky margins of the Kentucky River, until we reached a piece of flat land thickly covered with black walnuts, oaks, and hickories. As the general mast was a good one that year, squirrels were seen gambolling on every tree around us.
Página 309 - ... parts of the continent. Here; where the hand of violence shed the blood of the innocent; where the horrid yells of savages, and the groans of the distressed, sounded in our ears, we now hear the praises and adorations of our Creator; where wretched wigwams stood, the miserable abodes of savages, we behold the foundations of cities laid, that, in all probability, will rival the glory of the greatest upon earth.
Página 289 - on a hunting expedition on the banks of the Green River, when the lower parts of this State (Kentucky) were still in the hands of nature, and none but the sons of the soil were looked upon as its lawful proprietors. We Virginians had for some time been waging a war of intrusion upon them, and I, amongst the rest, rambled through the woods in pursuit of their race, as I now would follow the tracks of any ravenous animal. The Indians outwitted me one dark night, and I was as unexpectedly as suddenly...
Página 236 - ... meaL A staff was let into a hole in the upper surface of the runner, near the outer edge, and its upper end through a hole in a board fastened to a joist above, so that two persons could be employed in turning the mill at the same time The grain was put into the opjning in the runner by hand.