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Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the originaldocument have been preserved.
The author used superscripted numbers to indicate which of severalpeople with the same name are being referred to (e.g. George1,George2).
DANIEL BOONE.
From the portrait by Chester Harding made in 1819, when Boonewas eighty-five years old. (See pp. 237-239.)
Daniel Boone
BY
REUBEN GOLD THWAITES
Author of "Father Marquette," "The Colonies, 1492-1750,"
"Down Historic Waterways," "Afloat on the
Ohio," etc.; Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and
Allied Documents," "Chronicles of Border
Warfare," "Wisconsin Historical
Collections," etc.
Illustrated
New York
D. Appleton & Company
1902
Copyright, 1902
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Published September, 1902
TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE
LYMAN COPELAND DRAPER, LL.D.
WHOSE UNPARALLELED COLLECTION OF
MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS FOR WESTERN
HISTORY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE
WISCONSIN STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HAS MADE PRACTICABLE THE
PREPARATION OF THIS LITTLE BOOK
PREFACE
Poets, historians, and orators have fora hundred years sung the praises of DanielBoone as the typical backwoodsman of thetrans-Alleghany region. Despite popularbelief, he was not really the founder of Kentucky.Other explorers and hunters hadbeen there long before him; he himself waspiloted through Cumberland Gap by JohnFinley; and his was not even the first permanentsettlement in Kentucky, for Harrodsburgpreceded it by nearly a year; his servicesin defense of the West, during nearly ahalf century of border warfare, were notcomparable to those of George Rogers Clarkor Benjamin Logan; as a commonwealthbuilder he was surpassed by several. Nevertheless,Boone's picturesque career possessesa romantic and even pathetic interestthat can never fail to charm the student of