The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . a tree in Eastern Ten-nessee which bore the following inscription carvedupon it, probably by Boone himself, with that awkwarduse of letters to be expected of a backwoodsman: D. Boon Cilled A. Bar On Tree in ThE yEAR 1760. In 1769 Boone went into what is now Kentucky witha party. One of his companions was killed by the In-dians, one was eaten by wolves, and three were lost,no one knows how. Boone himself had been sevendays a captive among the Indians, but had managed toescape. There being no one left but Boone and
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . a tree in Eastern Ten-nessee which bore the following inscription carvedupon it, probably by Boone himself, with that awkwarduse of letters to be expected of a backwoodsman: D. Boon Cilled A. Bar On Tree in ThE yEAR 1760. In 1769 Boone went into what is now Kentucky witha party. One of his companions was killed by the In-dians, one was eaten by wolves, and three were lost,no one knows how. Boone himself had been sevendays a captive among the Indians, but had managed toescape. There being no one left but Boone and hisbrother, the brother went back for ammunition andhorses, and Daniel Boone was for one winter the onlywhite inhabitant of Kentuck). During this time he hadfrequently to change his sleeping-place from night tonight in order to avoid falling into the hands of lurkingsavages; and he had an encounter with a bear, fromwhose grip he only saved himself by killing it with hisknife. At this time he was three years without tastingbread or salt. After he had built a palisaded fort and. ^34 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. pion brought settlers to Kentuck\-, his daughter and twoother young girls were carried off by the savages, andBoone was captured in trying to rescue them. He wasonly released b} an attack made by his friends when hehad been tied to a tree to be put to death. Carriedinto captivity afterward, he barely escaped torture, andwas adopted into the tribe, from which he escaped intime to warn his friends at Boonsborough that a partywas marching to attack the place. In a fight with twoIndians he exposed himself enough to draw the fire ofone of them, whom he sliot; then, drawing the fire ofthe other in the same wa) and dodging it, he came to ahand-to-hand struggle, and warded a blow from the sav-ages tomahawk with his empty gun while he killedhis antagonist with his knife. Boone survived his perils,and lived to see populous States where he had exploredtrackless forests. He died in M
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