. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . or thiswork.—E. R. S. McN. 74 History of Alissoiiri. pa-per of the date of Oc-to-ber, 1820. In it is theno-tice of Dan-i-el Boones death on Sep-tem-ber 26,1820, at the age of nine-ty years. If this was hisright age, then Boone must have been born in 1730. CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST AMERICAN SETTLERS. What a rude, hard hfe those first A-mer-i-canshad of it out in the woods and wilds of the State!When the first ground had been brok-en by theBoones, it was not long ere folks came from theCar-o-li-nas, Ken-tuck-y, Vir-gin-ia, Mary-land, andPenn-syl-va-ni
. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . or thiswork.—E. R. S. McN. 74 History of Alissoiiri. pa-per of the date of Oc-to-ber, 1820. In it is theno-tice of Dan-i-el Boones death on Sep-tem-ber 26,1820, at the age of nine-ty years. If this was hisright age, then Boone must have been born in 1730. CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST AMERICAN SETTLERS. What a rude, hard hfe those first A-mer-i-canshad of it out in the woods and wilds of the State!When the first ground had been brok-en by theBoones, it was not long ere folks came from theCar-o-li-nas, Ken-tuck-y, Vir-gin-ia, Mary-land, andPenn-syl-va-ni-a. They brought with them no morethan just such things as the chief needs of the placewould call for, and some had one or more blackfolks who came with them from the old home. There were no locks on doors then, and thosewho had a roof oer their heads made room for thewives and babes of the new men till these had somesort of a place of their own. How the axe and brawn went at the task ! Tofell trees and clear a small farm space, and use those. BOARD OF TRADE BUILD-ING, KAN-SAS CI-TY. 76 History of Missouri. trees for logs with which to build house and barnfor the stock, cows, horse, or ox-team. When theclothes they had brought with them gave out^ newwere made of deer-skins for the men and wives and girls wore coarse cloth for theirgowns; the same had to serve for best shirts for themen, to be worn on great state times, such as awed-ding feast. The bed-clothes were made ot nicewarm bear-skins for cold months. The small folksslept in cribs made of hewn-out logs. They had lots of good fresh game for woods were full of hon-ey bees, so there weresweets for all. Things were kept cool and fit to usein a small place built by the side of a spring orcreek near the home roof. Grass was so rich that most of the months of ayear the stock did not have to be fed, but were leftto graze, when not in use, in the free fields. Stockdid not get lost or run wild, for the boys of
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