Boone: A Biography (68 page)

6
Squire Boone has been described as a rather small man
Reuben Gold Thwaites,
Daniel Boone
, 5.

7
“
At a solemn assembly of the said people
” Spraker, 32; Gwyneth Minutes, DM1C19.

7
“
Our condition at present
” Van Noppen and Van Noppen, 63.

7
campaign against the “Flatfeet
” Van Noppen and Van Noppen, 63.

8
George IV and his wife, Deborah, deeded land
Spraker, 589.

8
“
Boones and Lincolns several times
” Andrew Shaaber, Librarian, Historical Society of Berks County, PA, to Archibald Henderson, September 1, 1913, Henderson Papers.

9
One early biographer described the infant
H. Addington Bruce,
Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road
, 6.

9
“
keeping him and petting him
” Lyman Copeland Draper,
The Life of Daniel Boone
, 109.

10
“
He learned lessons of the snow
” W. H. Bogart,
Daniel Boone and the Hunters of Kentucky
, 24.

10
milking and butter making were considered
Daniel Drake,
Pioneer Life in Kentucky
, 92.

10
Indians still lived in the neighborhood
Andrew Shaaber to Archibald Henderson, September 1, 1913, Henderson Papers.

11
“
If thee has not brought up
” Draper, 113.

11
“
but a common man
” “A Traveler,”
Cincinnati National Republican
, August 19, 1823, DM16C67.

12
Neversink mountain range northwest
Thwaites, 10.

12
When asked if he was lost
Lawrence Elliott,
The Long Hunter
, 15.

13
there was a part of Boone that never grew up
Richard Taylor in conversation with the author, August 4, 2005.

13
“
I want thee to tell thy mother the whole truth
” Draper, 110.

13
“
Canst thou not beg?
” John Mack Faragher,
Daniel Boone
, 13.

15
“
it was a pretty
dear
shot
” Draper, 114.

15
Squire never solved the mystery
Draper, 115.

15
One of the pranks credited to Boone
Randell Jones,
In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone
, 4.

16
“Hunt the Indian
” William Boone Douglass, “The Ancestry and Boyhood of Daniel Boone,” 18.

16
Just as the creature was about to leap
Abner Bryan to Lyman Copeland Draper, February 12–14, 1890, DM4C60; William S. Bryan and Robert Rose,
Pioneer Families of Missouri
, 4.

16
Sarah Boone rebuked her son for violence
Timothy Flint,
Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone
, 32–34.

17
Boone was actually taught to read and write
Draper, 112.

17
“
He could at first do little more
” Draper, 112.

17
“
Let the girls do the spelling
” Douglass, 14.

17
“
They took the powder horn and left the ink horn
” Bogart, 14.

17
“
in the mighty solitudes
” Bogart, 22.

18
“
Your company is desired greatly
” Draper, 339.

18
As John Mack Faragher has pointed out
Faragher, 20.

19
“
King of the Schuylkill Delawares
” Faragher, 19.

People of the Forest

22
What Europeans saw as virgin land
Francis Jennings,
The Invasion of America
, 15.

22
Nor did they raise livestock
William Cronon,
Changes in the Land
, 37.

22
To them, all living things had spirits
Virginia DeJohn Anderson,
Creatures of Empire
, 30.

22
Owning land in the white way
Cronon, 65.

23
Indians were rich by “desiring little
” Cronon, 80.

23
In 1709 an English colonist
James H. Merrell,
The Catawbas
, 35.

23
concluded the invaders were stupid
James Axtell,
The Invasion Within
, 12.

Two: The Hills beyond the Yadkin

25
“
fiddle-footed
” Frederic G. Cassidy and Joan Houston Hall,
Dictio nary of American English
, 2:400.

25
“
itching foot
” John Bakeless,
Daniel Boone
, 5.

25
More and more young women
John Mack Faragher,
Daniel Boone
, 24.

26
“
led to more souls being made
” Stephen Aron,
How the West Was Lost
, 180.

26
“
Becca Bell ‘is with child to one Brown’
” Aron, 179.

26
“
94 percent of the brides
” Charles Woodmason,
The Carolina Back-country on the Eve of the Revolution
, 7, 100.

26
“
to speak with Squire Boone about his son’s
” Henderson Papers.

26
“
giving Room to a reflecting Spirit
” Minutes of the Exeter Monthly Meeting of Friends, Book A, DM1C55.

26
“
his coming to a Godly Sorrow
” DM1C56.

27
he had never known anything good
Peter Houston,
A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone
, 30; DM20C84[46–47]. There is some doubt about the authenticity of the Peter Houston account. See Neal O. Hammon and Wilson Zaring, “What Is Wrong with the Peter Houston Story?”

28
The call of the West was in the blood
Arthur K. Moore,
The Frontier Mind
, 4.

29
Farmers at river crossings made extra money
Parke Rouse Jr.,
The Great Wagon Road
, 69, 99, 101.

29
According to a report made to
John Preston Arthur,
A History of Watauga County
, 3.

29
“
William L. Boone told me they tarried
” Neal O. Hammon, ed.,
My Father, Daniel Boone
, 12.

30
“
The Soil is exceedingly rich
” William Byrd,
William Byrd’s Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina
, 300.

30
Some historians think that the name Yadkin
Mary C. Dalton to Lyman Copeland Draper, June 22, 1885, DM8C83[1].

31
Sakona
James H. Merrell,
The Catawabas
, 22.

31
The buffalo were mostly gone
Byrd, 286, 288.

31
“
a general jamboree or frolic
” John James Van Noppen and Ina Woestemeyer Van Noppen,
Daniel Boon Backwoodsman
, 77.

31
“
Boone was very profligate
” H. H. McDowell to Draper, August 10, 1887, DM20C39[3].

32
Records show that Squire served
Entry for October 4, 1750. Secretary of State, Granville Proprietary Land Office, Entries, Warrants, and Surveys, 1748–1763 (Microfilm S. 108.270). North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh. Courtesy of Kathryn Weiss.

34
“
The Land was very good and free
” John Lawson,
Lawson’s History of North Carolina
, 43.

36
“
Woodmason was only one of many
” David Hackett Fischer,
Albion’s Seed
, 680; Woodmason, 30, 61.

36
Squire served on local juries
Rowan County, North Carolina,
Minutes Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
for 1755 to 1767, Vol. 1.

36
“
He never took any delight in farming
” Daniel Bryan to Draper, February 27, 1843, DM22C5.

37
Beaver were usually speared with a barbed gig
Ted Franklin Belue, letter to the author, August 9, 2006.

39
“
The boldest supposedly outdid William Tell
” Aron, 24.

40
“
Well, if it has come to this
” Lyman Copeland Draper,
The Life of Daniel Boone
, 128.

40
“
I often went hunting with them
” John Filson,
The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke
, 65.

42
If hunters such as James Patton had tried
Ted Franklin Belue,
The Hunters of Kentucky
, 22.

42
“
From 1754 to 1759, Washington spent
” Joseph J. Ellis,
His Excellency
, 12.

43
“
smil’d at my Ignorance, and reply’d
” Belue, 60.

43
According to Daniel Boone’s son Nathan
Hammon, ed., 10.

44
Washington would encourage the establishment
Bernard Faÿ,
Revolution and Freemasonry, 1680–1800
, 245.

45
“
No savage shall inherit the land
” Francis Jennings,
Empire of Fortune
, 154–55.

45
“
Entire companies were wiped out
” Ellis, 22.

45
blamed Braddock for not using spies
Hammon, ed., 13.

Three: The Yadkin Was the Wild West

46
The Indian fell on the rocks below
Ralph Clayton,
St. Louis Christian Democrat
, May 10, 1877, DM7C43[2–3].

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the only Indian he was sure he ever killed
Neal O. Hammon, ed.,
My Father, Daniel Boone
, 78.

48
“
Morgan Bryan came to Pa about 1700
” J. D. Bryan to Archibald Henderson, October 15, 1897, Henderson Papers.

49
“
the same heroic . . . nature
” Annette Kolodny,
The Land before Her
, 82.

49
“
It is said by some that she was a fair shot
” Kolodny, 83.

49
“
one of the handsomest persons
” G. Hedrick to Lyman Copeland Draper, June 26, 1866, DM28C67.

49
larger than the average woman
Daniel Bryan to Draper, October 24, 1843, DM22C9[1]. Though many historians have referred to Daniel Bryan as Daniel
Boone
Bryan, possibly to distinguish him from the author of
The Mountain Muse
, he seems not to have used the middle name himself. See Weiss, “An Introduction to Daniel Bryan,” 9.

49
her pleasant manner and speech
Daniel Bryan to Draper, October 24, 1853, DM22C9[1].

49
“
One of the neatest and best of house keepers
” L. W. Boggs to Draper, January 18, 1857, DM23C27[2].

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“
my little girl
” Rebecca Boone Lamond to Draper, August 23, 1845, DM22C35[1].

50
“
And if there was any ‘shining of the eyes’
” Hammon, ed., 19; DM6S40–41.

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The sexual resonance of the story
Discussed in John Mack Faragher,
Daniel Boone
, 44.

50
an example of the way Rebecca was marginalized
Kolodny, 88.

50
“
to try her temper
” Hammon, ed., 19.

51
Rebecca saw what Daniel was about
Michael Lofaro,
Daniel Boone
, 16.

51
“
You, like my hunting shirt
” R. G. Prunty to Draper, January 26, 1883, DM16C57[3].

51
“
Flint effectively annihilated any
” Kolodny, 89.

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“
deerskin in the red before the frosts
” Ted Franklin Belue,
The Hunters of Kentucky
, 71.

56
“
There is a period in the history
” Henry David Thoreau,
Walden
, 212.

56
“
hoppusing
” John Bakeless,
Daniel Boone
, 364.

57
“
Later Boone met with him and gave him
” Hammon, ed., 37.

58
“
I believe I could whip you
” Draper interview with Isaiah Boone, 1846, DM19C113.

58
“
Fort Dobbs was an oblong
” Reuben Gold Thwaites,
Daniel Boone
, 37.

59
“
The people about here are wild” Records of the Moravian Church
, 1:40–41.

59
A group of Cherokees
Archibald Henderson,
The Conquest of the Old Southwest
, 74; Lyman Copeland Draper,
The Life of Daniel Boone
, 145–46.

60
Boone later told his son Nathan
Hammon, ed., 14.

Domestic Arts

63
William Clinkenbeard . . . told John Dabney Shane
John Dabney Shane interview with William Clinkenbeard, 1840s DM11CC55.

63
“
Noggins hollowed out of knots
” George Morgan Chinn,
Kentucky Settlement and Statehood, 1750–1800
, 337.

Four: In Search of the Real West

65
“
A Deed of Gift from Squire Boone
” Rowan County, North Carolina,
Minutes, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
, 2:277.

66
he had been turned into a ghost
Pat Alderman,
The Overmountain Men
, 11.

66
“
I have often heard Father speak
” Neal O. Hammon, ed.,
My Father
,
Daniel Boone
, 15.

67
A beaver skin was a unit
John Sanders to Archibald Henderson ca. 1913, Henderson Papers.

67
“
the isolate woodland son
” Annette Kolodny,
The Land before Her
, 5.

67
built earlier for herders
John Preston Arthur,
A History of Watauga County
, 19; John Preston Arthur,
Western North Carolina
, 82.