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Reuben Gold Thwaites. Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
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PREFACE
DANIEL BOONE
CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY AND TRAINING
CHAPTER II. THE NIMROD OF THE YADKIN
CHAPTER III. LIFE ON THE BORDER
CHAPTER IV. RED MAN AGAINST WHITE MAN
CHAPTER V. KENTUCKY REACHED AT LAST
CHAPTER VI. ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS
CHAPTER VII. PREDECESSORS AND CONTEMPORARIES
CHAPTER VIII. THE HERO OF CLINCH VALLEY
CHAPTER IX. THE SETTLEMENT OF KENTUCKY
CHAPTER X. TWO YEARS OF DARKNESS
CHAPTER XI. THE SIEGE OF BOONESBOROUGH
CHAPTER XII. SOLDIER AND STATESMAN
CHAPTER XIII. KENTUCKY'S PATH OF THORNS
CHAPTER XIV. IN THE KANAWHA VALLEY
CHAPTER XV. A SERENE OLD AGE
INDEX
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The lofty barrier of the Alleghany Mountains was of itself sufficient to prevent the pioneers of Pennsylvania from wandering far westward. Moreover, the Indians beyond these hills were fiercer than those with whom the Quakers were familiar; their occasional raids to the eastward, through the mountain passes, won for them a reputation which did not incline the border farmers to cultivate their further acquaintance. To the southwest, however, there were few obstacles to the spread of settlement. For several hundred miles the Appalachians run in parallel ranges from northeast to southwest—from Pennsylvania, through Virginia, West Virginia, the Carolinas, and east Tennessee, until at last they degenerate into scattered foot-hills upon the Georgia plain. Through the long, deep troughs between these ranges—notably in the famous Valley of Virginia between the Blue Ridge and the Alleghanies—Pennsylvanians freely wandered into the south and southwest, whenever possessed by thirst for new and broader lands. Hostile Indians sometimes penetrated these great valleys and brought misery in their train; but the work of pioneering along this path was less arduous than had the western mountains been scaled at a time when the colonists were still few and weak.
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