Stories of the West . en com-panions he set out, making his own trail throughthe gloomy forest. After weeks of wandering,he at last emerged into the beautiful and fertilecountry of Kentucky, for which, in after years,the red men and the white strove with such obsti-nate fury that it grew to be called the dark andbloody ground. But when Boone first saw it, itwas a fair and smiling land of groves and gladesand running waters, where the open forest grewtall and beautiful, and where innumerable herdsof game grazed, roaming ceaselessly to and froalong the trails they had trodden during count-less g
Stories of the West . en com-panions he set out, making his own trail throughthe gloomy forest. After weeks of wandering,he at last emerged into the beautiful and fertilecountry of Kentucky, for which, in after years,the red men and the white strove with such obsti-nate fury that it grew to be called the dark andbloody ground. But when Boone first saw it, itwas a fair and smiling land of groves and gladesand running waters, where the open forest grewtall and beautiful, and where innumerable herdsof game grazed, roaming ceaselessly to and froalong the trails they had trodden during count-less generations. Kentucky was not owned byany Indian tribe, and was visited only by wan-dering war-parties and hunting-parties whocame from among the savage nations living northof the Ohio or south of the Tennessee. A roving war-party stumbled upon one ofBoones companions and killed him, and the oth-ers then left Boone and journeyed home; but hisbrother came out to join him, and the two spent p o no -i (0 O rf CDW n pi cr?.
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