. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . and some of the party were killed, forthe savages fired on them from the banks. One of the boats, carrying twenty-eight grown peopleand children, had a number of cases of smallpox on board. The I ndians attackedthis boat and killed or cap-tured the four sick their deed the savageswere badly punished, forthey took the disease, whichsoon spread widely amongthe tribes. For a long time afterNashville was begun thepioneers had fierce encoun-ters with the Indians, andin spite of all their caremany lives were lost. Rob-ertson was the st
. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . and some of the party were killed, forthe savages fired on them from the banks. One of the boats, carrying twenty-eight grown peopleand children, had a number of cases of smallpox on board. The I ndians attackedthis boat and killed or cap-tured the four sick their deed the savageswere badly punished, forthey took the disease, whichsoon spread widely amongthe tribes. For a long time afterNashville was begun thepioneers had fierce encoun-ters with the Indians, andin spite of all their caremany lives were lost. Rob-ertson was the strong man of the place, and was rewardedwith the confidence of the people. When Tennessee became a state he helped to makeits constitution. He was a member of the state Senatein 1798, and lived long enough to keep some of theIndians from helping the British in the War of died in 1814. He was brave, and willing to endure hardship, dis-comfort, and suffering in a good cause. He went aloneover the snows to Kentucky to get powder, and returned. Fig. 63. James Robertson FRONTIER SOLDIERS AND STATESMEN 165 in time to save the little town from destruction. TheIndians killed his own son, but he would not give upthe settlement. Plain man though he was, he gainedhonor from the men of his time, and wrote his name onthe pages of American history. We must learn a little more of Isaac Shelby, whomwe have seen fighting hard at Point Pleasant and KingsMountain. He was bornin the Great Valley, atHagerstown. When hewas twenty-one years oldhe moved to Tennesseeand then across to Ken-tucky. He fought in theRevolution in other bat-tles besides that of KingsMountain, and before hewent to Kentucky he hadhelped to make laws inthe legislature of NorthCarolina. It is rather strange to read that Kentucky v^as made a county of Virginia. This was in i ]j6. In 1792, largelythrough Shelbys efforts, Kentucky was separated fromVirginia and became a state by itself. It was the firststate beyond the mount
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