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John S. C. Abbott. Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky
Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
The Discovery and early Settlement of America
CHAPTER II
Daniel Boone, his Parentage, and early Adventures
CHAPTER III
Louisiana, its Discovery and Vicissitudes
CHAPTER IV
Camp Life Beyond the Alleghanies
CHAPTER V
Indian Warfare
CHAPTER VI
Sufferings of the Pioneers
CHAPTER VII
Life in the Wilderness
CHAPTER VIII
Captivity and Flight
CHAPTER IX
Victories and Defeats
CHAPTER X
British Allies
CHAPTER XI
Kentucky organized as a State
CHAPTER XII
Adventures Romantic and Perilous
CHAPTER XIII
A New Home
CHAPTER XIV
Conclusion
FOOTNOTES
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John S. C. Abbott
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The organization of the colony had thus far been effected with very little regard to the wants of human nature. There were no women there. Without the honored wife there cannot be the happy home; and without the home there can be no contentment. To herd together five hundred men upon the banks of a foreign stream, three thousand miles from their native land, without women and children, and to expect them to lay the foundation of a happy and prosperous colony, seems almost unpardonable folly.
Emigrants began to arrive with their families, and in the year 1620, one hundred and fifty poor, but virtuous young women, were induced to join the Company. Each young man who came received one hundred acres of land. Eagerly these young planters, in short courtship, selected wives from such of these women as they could induce to listen to them. Each man paid one hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco to defray the expenses of his wife's voyage. But the wickedness of man will everywhere, and under all circumstances, make fearful development of its power. Many desperadoes joined the colony. The poor Indians with no weapons of war but arrows, clubs and stone tomahawks, were quite at the mercy of the English with their keen swords, and death-dealing muskets. Fifteen Europeans could easily drive several hundred Indians in panic over the plains. Unprincipled men perpetrated the grossest outrages upon the families of the Indians, often insulting the proudest chiefs.
