On the Kentucky Frontier: A Story of the Fighting Pioneers of the West

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Otis James. On the Kentucky Frontier: A Story of the Fighting Pioneers of the West

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. SIMON KENTON

CHAPTER II. BESIEGED

CHAPTER III. THE VENTURE

CHAPTER IV. PAUL SAMPSON

CHAPTER V. DOWN THE OHIO

CHAPTER VI. ASTRAY

CHAPTER VII. THE CAPTIVE SCOUT

CHAPTER VIII. AT THE RENDEZVOUS

CHAPTER IX. KASKASKIA

CHAPTER X. CAHOKIA

CHAPTER XI. HOMEWARD BOUND

CHAPTER XII. A NOVEL BATTLE

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It is my purpose to set down what I saw during such time as Simon Kenton gave me my first lessons in woodcraft and it is well to make the statement in advance in order that others may be deprived of the opportunity of saying what would sound disagreeable: – that the pupil was for a time so dull that one less patient and painstaking than Kenton would have brought the lessons to a speedy close.

That which now seems the most difficult is to decide how I shall begin this story of the little which I did on the Kentucky frontier during the year of grace 1778, and I can hit upon no plan which promises better success than that of copying here what I read in a printed book long years after I, a green lad, set out to do my little share toward bringing peace and a sense of security to the settlers who were striving to make homes for themselves and their families in what was then known as the colony of Virginia.

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"Are you down here trapping?" I asked, now questioning him as he had me.

"I'm headin' for Corn Island?"

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