The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . adventure was born in them, andnursed with their mothers milk. The first buffalo metwith furnished them bed and bedding, as well as the huge carcass in triumph, out came thesharp hunting-knife, and off was flayed the shaggy hide. A few choice cutswere quickly re-moved ; flint andsteel struck a fire ;a sharpened stickheld the collops tothe blaze till doneto the huntersturn, when fingerstook the place ofknives and forks,until the cravingsof hunger werefully satisfied. Then, wrapped up in his robe, stretchedout with his feet to the
The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . adventure was born in them, andnursed with their mothers milk. The first buffalo metwith furnished them bed and bedding, as well as the huge carcass in triumph, out came thesharp hunting-knife, and off was flayed the shaggy hide. A few choice cutswere quickly re-moved ; flint andsteel struck a fire ;a sharpened stickheld the collops tothe blaze till doneto the huntersturn, when fingerstook the place ofknives and forks,until the cravingsof hunger werefully satisfied. Then, wrapped up in his robe, stretchedout with his feet to the fire, no king in his palace sleptmore soundly, or awoke feeling himself half so truly amonarch as this simple backwoodsman did. Such a man was Daniel Boone. And this had beenhis life. Cast upon nature for a livelihood, he and hisrude comrades were, in habits, weapons, dress, a curiousblending of white and savage, of civilized and uncivil-ized man. In some respects, the men who, for the mostpart, make the early history of Kentucky, maybe said to. PICTURED ROCK. THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY 101 have been instruments for civilization, in spite of them-selves. Boone was tliirty-four when he started off on his longjoiTrney. His party entered Kentucky at the southeastcorner, reaching the upper waters of the Kentucky inJune. From a rocky height here they looked down upona scene too sublime for words, and here they resolvedto pitch their first camp. They were soon , with one companion, having been surprised andtaken, while absent hunting, the rest broke up theircamp in haste, and made all speed back to the settle-ments. Fortunately the captives succeeded in makingtheir escape, only to find themselves deserted by theirpanic-stricken companions. Boones resolute character is now well shown in thedetermination to stay where he was, Indians or no Ind-ians. And his was the governing Avill. Here, then, they passed the long, dreary winter unmo-lested and uneventfully until January,
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