Chapter II: Preface: vii

I. ANCESTRY AND TRAINING 1

II. THE NIMROD OF THE YADKIN 13

III. LIFE ON THE BORDER 24

IV. RED MAN AGAINST WHITE MAN 35

V. KENTUCKY REACHED AT LAST 55

VI. ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS 71

VII. PREDECESSORS AND CONTEMPORARIES 85

VIII. THE HERO OF CLINCH VALLEY 97

IX. THE SETTLEMENT OF KENTUCKY 113

X. TWO YEARS OF DARKNESS 129

XI. THE SIEGE OF BOONESBOROUGH 146

XII. SOLDIER AND STATESMAN 169

XIII. KENTUCKY'S PATH OF THORNS 192

XIV. IN THE KANAWHA VALLEY 211

XV. A SERENE OLD AGE 223

INDEX 243

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

Portrait of Daniel Boone _Frontispiece_

Boone's powder-horn and bake-kettle 30

A Boone tree, 1760 56

A survey note by Boone 120

Fort Boonesborough 136

Climax of the treaty 162

Site of Boonesborough to-day 174

Boone's cabin in St. Charles County, Missouri 224

Nathan Boone's house in St. Charles County, Missouri 230

Boone's religious views (two pages) 234

Boone's monument at Frankfort, Ky. 240

DANIEL BOONE