: The Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance by Jacob P L Dafforne James Translator - Art Renaissance; Middle Ages; Art Medieval

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Early visits to Kentucky--James McBride--Dr. Wacker and others--John Finlay goes to Kentucky trading with the Indians--Returns with glowing accounts of the country--Visits Daniel Boone and spends the winter with him--Boone is charmed with the stories--They determine in the spring to go to Kentucky--Meeting at Boone's house in May--With four companions they start for the west--Adventures by the way--They reach Finlay's old station on the Red river--Make their camp--Amuse themselves in hunting and exploring the country--Beauty of the country--Abundance of game--Boone and Stewart are taken by the Indians--Make their escape--Return to their camp--It is plundered and deserted--Arrival of Squire Boone--Daniel Boone is rejoiced to hear from his family 26

Hunting party--Stewart is killed by the Indians--narrow escape of Daniel Boone--The companion of Squire Boone returns home--The two brothers alone in the wilderness--Cheerfulness of Daniel Boone--Squire returns to the Yadkin for ammunition--Daniel lives in the forest alone--His pleasant wanderings--Singular escape from the Indians--Encounter with a bear--Looks for the return of his brother--Disappointment--Is very sad--Squire suddenly arrives with ammunition and horses--Plans for the future--Daniel Boone chooses a spot on the Kentucky river--They return for his family--Sport by the way--They reach the Yadkin--Try to beat up recruits for Kentucky--Ridicule of the people--They start with five families--Forty men join them--Disaster by the way--They return to Clinch river--Various employments of Boone--He returns to Kentucky--Builds a fort--Removes his family to Boonesborough 42

Comforts of Boonesborough--Arrival of Colonel Calaway and his daughters--Capture of three girls by the Indians--Boone and Calaway pursue--Are made prisoners--Happy escape--New emigrants--County of Kentucky--Indian warfare--Attacks upon Harrodsburgh and Boonesborough--Expedition to the salt-licks on Licking river--Courage of Boone--Overcomes two Indians--Is met by a large Indian party--Made a prisoner--His long captivity and escape 59

Indian customs noticed by Boone during his captivity--Mode of hardening children--Changing names--Marriages--Burials--War parties--Celebration of victories--Torturing prisoners--Making treaties of peace 80

Boone's disappointment upon not finding his wife--Strengthening of Boonesborough--Indian hostilities--Attack of Boonesborough--gallant defence--Boone returns to North Carolina--Occurrences during his absence--Boone returns--Goes to the Blue Licks for salt--Death of the younger Boone--Daniel Boone escapes--Kentucky divided into three counties--Hard winter of 1781--Indian hostilities--Attack on Bryant's station--Villany of Simon Girty 91

Disastrous defeat at the Blue Licks--General Clarke's campaign--Efforts to restore peace--Sullenness of the Indians--They continue their massacres--Stratagems on the Ohio--Bold defence of Captain Hubbil--Halmar's campaign--St. Clair's defeat--Debate in Congress--General Wayne takes command--Defeats the Indians--Lays waste their country--Concludes a treaty of peace with the savages in August, 1795 109

Happiness of the settlers--Boone roams through the wilderness--Civilization sickens him--He loses his lands--Moves to the Kanhawa--Disappointed in finding game--Moves to Missouri--Purchase of Missouri from the French--Anecdote related by Mr. Audubon--Boone loses his wife--His sorrow--War with England--His old age--His habits--He dies in 1818. 127

The adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, formerly a hunter; containing a narrative of the wars of Kentucky, as given by himself. 143

THE ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONE.

Some men choose to live in crowded cities;--others are pleased with the peaceful quiet of a country farm; while some love to roam through wild forests, and make their homes in the wilderness. The man of whom I shall now speak, was one of this last class. Perhaps you never heard of DANIEL BOONE, the Kentucky rifleman. If not, then I have a strange and interesting story to tell you.

If, when a child was born, we knew that he was to become a remarkable man, the time and place of his birth would, perhaps, be always remembered. But as this can not be known, great mistakes are often made on these points. As to the time when Daniel Boone was born, there is no difficulty; but people have fallen into many blunders about the place. Some have said that he was born in England, before his parents left that country; others that he came into this world during the passage of his parents across the Atlantic. One has told us that he was born in Virginia; another in Maryland; while many have stated that he was a native of North Carolina. These are all mistakes. Daniel Boone was born in the year 1746, in Bucks county, in the state of Pennsylvania.

From some cause or other, when the boy was but three years old, his parents moved from this home, and settled upon the Schuylkill river, not far from the town of Reading. Here they lived for ten years; and it was during this time that their son Daniel began to show his passion for hunting. He was scarcely able to carry a gun, when he was shooting all the squirrels, rackoons, and even wild-cats , that he could find in that region. As he grew older, his courage increased, and then we find him amusing himself with higher game. Other lads in the neighborhood were soon taught by him the use of the rifle, and were then able to join him in his adventures. On one occasion, they all started out for a hunt, and after amusing themselves till it was almost dark, were returning homeward, when suddenly a wild cry was heard in the woods. The boys screamed out, "A panther! a panther!" and ran off as fast as they could. Boone stood firmly, looking around for the animal. It was a panther indeed. His eye lighted upon him just in the act of springing toward him: in an instant he levelled his rifle, and shot him through the heart.

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