The beginner's American history . doneat New York ? What is said of General Washington after the war ? Tel] how hewas made President. What happened when he died ? What is said of Lafayette ? DANIEL BOONE (1734-1820). 146. Daniel Boone; what the hunters of the west did;Boones life in North Carolina. — Before Washington beganto fight the battles of the Revolution in the east, DanielBoone and other famous hunters were fighting bears andIndians in what was then called the west. By that warin the woods, these brave and hardy men helped us to get possession of that part ofthe country. Daniel Boone w
The beginner's American history . doneat New York ? What is said of General Washington after the war ? Tel] how hewas made President. What happened when he died ? What is said of Lafayette ? DANIEL BOONE (1734-1820). 146. Daniel Boone; what the hunters of the west did;Boones life in North Carolina. — Before Washington beganto fight the battles of the Revolution in the east, DanielBoone and other famous hunters were fighting bears andIndians in what was then called the west. By that warin the woods, these brave and hardy men helped us to get possession of that part ofthe country. Daniel Boone was born His fathermoved to North Car^lina,^and Daniel helped him t:utdown the trees round theirlog cabin in the forest. Heploughed the land, which wasthick with stumps, hoed thecorn that grew up amongthose stumps, and then, — asthere was no mill near, — he pounded it into meal for 1 He was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 2 He settled near Wilkesboro, on the banks of the Yadkin River. See map onpage Boone pounding Corn. DANIEL BOONE. 117 johnny-cake. He learned how to handle a gun quite assoon as he did a hoe. The unfortunate deer or coon thatsaw young Boone coming toward him knew that he hadseen his best days, and that he would soon have the wholeBoone family sitting round him at the dinner-table. 147. Boones wanderings in the western forests ; his beartree. — When Daniel had grown to manhood, he wanderedoff with his gun on his shoulder, and crossing the mountains,entered what is now the state of Tennessee. That wholecountry was then a wilderness, full of savage beasts andstill more savage Indians; and Boone had many a sharpfight with both. More than a hundred and thirty yearsago, he cut these words on a beech-tree,still standing in Eastern Tennessee,^ — D. Boon killed a bar on (this) tree inthe year 1760. You will see if youexamine the tree, on which the wordscan still be read, that Boone could notspell very well; but he could do whatthe be
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