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Daniel Boone.
THE LIFE AND TIMES
OF
Col. Daniel Boone,
HUNTER, SOLDIER, AND PIONEER.
WITH
SKETCHES OF SIMON KENTON, LEWIS WETZEL, AND OTHER
LEADERS IN THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST.
Who passes for in life and death most lucky,
Of the great names which in our faces stare,
Is Daniel Boone, backwoodsman of Kentucky.
Of solitude. Health shrank not from him, for
Her home is in the rarely-trodden wild."
By EDWARD S. ELLIS,
AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF COLONEL DAVID CROCKETT,"
"NED IN THEBLOCK-HOUSE," "NED IN THE WOODS," ETC.
PHILADELPHIA:
PORTER & COATES.
Copyright, 1884,
BY
PORTER & COATES.
INTRODUCTION.
DANIEL BOONE was the ideal of the Americanpioneer—brave, cool, self-reliant, a deadshot with his rifle, a consummate master of woodcraft,with sturdy frame, hopeful at all times, andnever discouraged by disasters which caused manya weaker spirit to faint by the way. All that thepen of romance depicts in the life of one whoselot is cast in the Western forests, marked thecareer of Boone. In the lonely solitudes heencountered the wild animal and the fiercer wildman; and he stood on the bastions at Boonesboroughthrough the flaming sun or the solemnhours of night, exchanging shots with the treacherousShawanoe, w