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    Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon
    Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon
    Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon
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    Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon

    By John Filson

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon - John Filson

      Project Gutenberg's The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, by John Filson

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone

      Author: John Filson

      Release Date: July 9, 2009 [EBook #909]

      Last Updated: January 26, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ADVENTURES OF COLONEL BOONE ***

      Produced by John M. Krafft, and David Widger

      THE ADVENTURES OF COL. DANIEL BOON

      CONTAINING A NARRATIVE OF THE WARS OF KENTUCKE

      From The Discovery and Settlement of Kentucke

      By John Filson

      Curiosity is natural to the soul of man, and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatsoever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven. Thus we behold Kentucke, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent. Here, where the hand of violence shed the blood of the innocent; where the horrid yells of savages, and the groans of the distressed, sounded in our ears, we now hear the praises and adoration of our Creator; where wretched wigwams stood, the miserable abodes of savages, we behold the foundations of cities laid, that, in all probability, will rival the glory of the greatest upon earth. And we view Kentucke situated on the fertile banks of the great Ohio, rising from obscurity to shine with splendor, equal to any other of the stars of the American hemisphere.

      The settling of this region well deserves a place in history. Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

      It was on the first of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin River, in North-Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucke, in company with John Finley, John Stewart, Joseph Holden, James Monay, and William Cool. We proceeded successfully, and after a long and fatiguing journey through a mountainous wilderness, in a westward direction, on the seventh day of June following, we found ourselves on Red-River, where John Finley had formerly been trading with the Indians, and, from the top of an eminence, saw

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