Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . 70 DANIEL THE FAMOUS DANIEL BOONE. learned about the Hunting-grounds of the Indians, he was a wooded wil-derness, used bythe Indians onlyfor hunting. Kan-tuck-kee they calledit, meaning thedark and bloodyground. Soonafter the close ofthe war—in 1763—a few bold whitehunters crossedthe mountainsthat guarded it onthe east, and be-gan to explore itsgreat them wasDaniel was a nativeof Pennsylvania,though he hadlived in NorthCarolina since hewas eighte
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . 70 DANIEL THE FAMOUS DANIEL BOONE. learned about the Hunting-grounds of the Indians, he was a wooded wil-derness, used bythe Indians onlyfor hunting. Kan-tuck-kee they calledit, meaning thedark and bloodyground. Soonafter the close ofthe war—in 1763—a few bold whitehunters crossedthe mountainsthat guarded it onthe east, and be-gan to explore itsgreat them wasDaniel was a nativeof Pennsylvania,though he hadlived in NorthCarolina since hewas eighteenyears old. Hewas a grown manb}^ this time, witha family and quitea good reputationthroughout thecountrj^ for his ^intelligence and .man} interestedin the little hemade up a party DANIEIy BOONE. 71 after a few years, to explore its wilds. It was a most discouraging himself, and his brother who joined them later, were the only oneswho escaped from the Indians. Alone they passed the winter in the vast forest, savage beasts andsavage men their only neighbors. In the spring the brother went homefor s
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