. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. beat a quick retreat, forthey will not stand up in open fight against whitemen. Mr. Boones company remained crouching inhiding ready to open fire on the first red face or tuftof feathers that could be seen, many of them mean-while urging that all attempts to build a fort be aban-doned, and that they return beyond the CumberlandMountains, for there was good reason to believe thatthe Indians had taken to the warpath again. BUILDING THE FORTS Father says that Mr. Boone would not listen to
. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. beat a quick retreat, forthey will not stand up in open fight against whitemen. Mr. Boones company remained crouching inhiding ready to open fire on the first red face or tuftof feathers that could be seen, many of them mean-while urging that all attempts to build a fort be aban-doned, and that they return beyond the CumberlandMountains, for there was good reason to believe thatthe Indians had taken to the warpath again. BUILDING THE FORTS Father says that Mr. Boone would not listen to thesearguments. He insisted that a fort should be builtthen and there, after which the question of turningback could be discussed. By nightfall a stockade seven feet high, with butone narrow opening, had been put up, and then thecompany waited, meanwhile sending out two of their HANNAH OF KENTUCKY A 48 HANNAH OF KENTUCKY number as scouts, to learn whether the Indians intendedto make more trouble. Father also said that not less than a hundred men hadgone into Kentucky with, or ahead of, the road makers,. and were buildingforts at differentplaces; thereforewhen Mr. Boone be-lieved the savageswere not planningto make another attack very soon, he sent out two of the company to warn these people, hoping they would join him in a short time. After this had been done a number of the road makers followed Mr. Boone to Otter Creek, close by the Ken- SETTING OUT FOR BOONESBOROUGH 49 tucky River, and there this fort, in which mother andI are to-day, was built. Not until the settlement of Boonesborough was wellbegun, and all the men from neighboring forts had metto make laws for the new^colony, did Mr. Boone andfather come back to us. And now I must say Colonel, instead of Mis-ter, when speaking of Jemimas father; for after thelaws had been made and officers for the colony chosen,he was put in command of the settlers in Boonesboroughwhen they should be gathered together in defense ofthe pla
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