Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber's Note:

In the contents list for Chapter II, 'Daniel Doone is rejoiced' was changed to 'Daniel Boone'. 'Boon' in the frontispiece illustration caption has however been retained.

Variations in use of hyphens have been standardised within the text.

Less usual spelling of words such as rackoon and periogues have been left as they appear in the original book.

The spelling of Colonel Calloway/Calaway has been left as it appears in the original.

THE
ADVENTURES
OF
DANIEL BOONE,
THE
KENTUCKY RIFLEMAN.

BY
THE AUTHOR OF "UNCLE PHILIP'S CONVERSATIONS."

"Too much crowded--too much crowded--I want more
elbow-room."--_Boone on his way to Missouri._

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO., 200 BROADWAY.
PHILADELPHIA:
GEORGE S. APPLETON, 164 CHESNUT ST.
MDCCCL.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843,
By D. APPLETON & CO.,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
for the Southern District of New York.

TO
HIS YOUNG COUNTRYMEN
THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES,
AND ESPECIALLY
THE LADS OF KENTUCKY,
This Volume
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED,
BY UNCLE PHILIP.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
Page.
Daniel Boone is born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania--His
father removes to the Schuylkill--Boone's early passion
for hunting--Kills a panther--Wanderings in the woods--Is
sent to school--The school is broken up--Boone returns to
his sports--His father removes to the Yadkin river in
North Carolina--While the farm is improving Daniel is
hunting--The neighborhood begins to be settled--Daniel is
dissatisfied--Settlement of Mr. Bryan--Daniel Boone goes
out upon a fire hunt--Strange adventure--Marries Rebecca
Bryan--Makes a home for himself on the head waters of the
Yadkin--Men begin to crowd upon him--determines to move 13

CHAPTER II.

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

CHAPTER III.

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

CHAPTER IV.

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

CHAPTER V.

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

CHAPTER VI.

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

CHAPTER VII.

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

CHAPTER VIII.

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

APPENDIX.

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.