. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . four hundred andfifty men. With Boone as second in command, he set out towardthe battle field, hoping that the enemy, encouraged by success,would encamp there. But while defeat only enraged the red menfurther, victory sent them home to their own countrj^, exultingin their scalps and prisoners. The battle field was coveredwith the bodies of the white men, frightfully mangled. Afterburying these, Logan and Boone returned to Bryants stationand disbanded the troops. COLONEL DANIEL BOONE. 221 Such was the bloodiest battle ever fought between white andre
. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . four hundred andfifty men. With Boone as second in command, he set out towardthe battle field, hoping that the enemy, encouraged by success,would encamp there. But while defeat only enraged the red menfurther, victory sent them home to their own countrj^, exultingin their scalps and prisoners. The battle field was coveredwith the bodies of the white men, frightfully mangled. Afterburying these, Logan and Boone returned to Bryants stationand disbanded the troops. COLONEL DANIEL BOONE. 221 Such was the bloodiest battle ever fought between white andred, for the soil of Kentucky. About seventy of the Kentuekians,or nearly one-half of the whole number engaged, were killed,and the 19th of August, 1782, was long celebrated in the localtraditions. A few prowling bands of Indians infested the less thickly set-tled part of the country, but for some time there were no im-portant sieges or fights. Colonel Boone was enabled by the com-pensation which the State of Virginia gave him for his military. THE TOBACCO STRATAGEM. services to purchase several tracts of land, which he cultivatedwith his usual industry, varying his agricultural pursuits withhunting expeditions. On one of these tracts he erected a com-fortable log house, near which he planted a small patch of tobac-co to supply his neighbors ( for he never used the filthy weed himself). He had built a tobacco house, for curing it, of rails ten ortwelve feet in height, and roofed with cane and grass. The stalkswere split and strung on sticks about four feet long, the ends ofthese being laid on poles placed in tiers across the building. 222 COLONEL DANIEL BOONE. The lower tier being dry, Boone was busily removing it to theujDper jDart of the building, sujDporting himself on the lowerpoles, when, looking down, he saw that four Indians, armed withguns, had entered the low door. One of them said to him: Now, Boone, we got you. You no get away more. We carryoff to Chillieothe this time
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