Boone: A Biography (74 page)

340
“
And let this stand as a direction
” Defoe, 77.

340
“
Thus situated, many hundred miles from
” Filson, 53.

341
“
[S]eeing all these things have not brought thee
” Defoe, 101.

341
was named Dreaming Creek
John Bakeless,
Daniel Boone
, 51–52; Thomas Speed,
The Wilderness Road
, 69; Draper interview with Nathan and Olive Boone, 1851, DM6S282.

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“
Each time when captured, robbed
” Bakeless, 244; Draper interview with Nathan and Olive Boone, 1851, DM6S282.

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“
Many dark and sleepless nights have I been
” Filson, 80–81.

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“
How strange a chequer-work of Providence
” Defoe, 182.

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“
The aspect of these cliffs is so wild
” Filson, 57–58.

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“
The scenery which presented itself on all sides
” Edgar Allan Poe, “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains,” 3:942.

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“
I surveyed the famous river Ohio
” Filson, 55.

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“
Interest in his subject was high
” Walton, 73.

343
“
Boone the frontiersman, as an acknowledged
” Arthur K. Moore,
The Frontier Mind
, 147–48.

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“
All true: Every word truth!
” John A. McClung,
Sketches of Western Adventure
, 79–80.

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“
neither the love of friends nor the hatred of enemies
” J. Winston Coleman,
Six Sketches of Kentucky
, 71.

344
“
a model of the republican citizen
” Richard Slotkin,
The Fatal Environment
, 67.

345
“
No little mound attracts to his last resting-place
” Reuben T. Durrett,
John Filson, the First Historian of Kentucky
, 93.

345
“
A man does not have to be great
” Walton, 126.

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“
Thomas Allin and Samuel Grant the persons appointed
” Lincoln County Court Order Book One, 79, August Court, 1783.

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In 1783 Boone made around forty surveys
Willard Rouse Jillson, “Daniel Boone as Surveyor,”
Kentucky School Journal
, 32.

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“
a muddy hole of a place
” Ellen Eslinger,
Running Mad for Kentucky
, 19.

348
“
In this harbour are seen
” Eslinger, 18–19.

348
“
the fag [worn out] end of Kentucky
” Eslinger, 19.

349
“
[In 1783] he made 24 surveys
” Neal O. Hammon, “Daniel Boone the Surveyor,” 3.

350
“
A surveying party would need a compass
” Hammon, 3.

350
Yet later studies of his surveys
Neal O. Hammon and Richard Taylor,
Virginia’s Western War 1775–1786
, xxiv. 351 “
All Boone’s entries were mighty vague
” John Dabney Shane interview with William Risk, ca. 1840s, DM11CC87.

Sixteen: A Deale of Sine Is Seen

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“
A Deale of Sine is Seen in Different places
” Daniel Boone to Gov. Patrick Henry, August 16, 1785, DM32C81A.

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In April 1786 Moluntha and the chief named the Shade
Colin G. Calloway,
The American Revolution in Indian Country
, 176.

353
Simon Girty, who was with the Shawnees Michigan Historical Collection
24 (1895): 35.

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the dogs would lead them to the villages
Neal O. Hammon, ed.,
My Father, Daniel Boone
, 81.

354
“
Who hacked the squaws?
” Abner Bryan to Lyman Copeland Draper, 1890, DM4C50.

354
“
Mind that fellow,” Boone shouted
Hammon, ed., 81.

355
“
Was you in the Battle of Blue Licks?
” and “
Then God damn you . . . I will show you
” John Dabney Shane interview with Isaac Clinkenbeard, 1840s, DM11CC3.

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Moluntha’s English was not very good
Draper interview with Joseph Jackson, 1844, DM11C63[34].

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Later they would move again
Calloway, 178.

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“
State of Virginia Dr. 19 galons of whiskey
” David I. Bushnell Jr., “Daniel Boone at Limestone 1781–1787,” 3.

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“
He told me he had surveyed the same land
” Deposition of Daniel Boone, Point Pleasant, Virginia, April 24, 1794; Neal O. Hammon, “John Filson’s Error,” 463.

357
“
Hickman, Floyd and myself was face to face
” Deposition of Daniel Boone, Point Pleasant, Virginia, April 24, 1794; Hammon, 463.

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“
Boone built his station on part of the land
” John Floyd to Col. William Preston, March 27, 1783, DM33S320.

358
“
Said Boone also told deponent
” Deposition of Richard Hickman, May 26, 1790, Fayette County, taken before Charles Morgan and James McMillan,
Fayette County Records
, 1:170–85.

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“
Boone was ill-equipped for the cut-throat
” Stephen Aron,
How the West Was Lost
, 82.

359
“
Little by little his wealth melted away
” Hammon, ed., 110.

360
“
Aprl 14 lent money to several persons
” “Daniel Boone’s Account Book,” DM14C92.

360
“
Captain Plat was in New Orleans
” Hammon, ed., 109.

360
“
located and surveyed by Col. Daniel Boone” Lexington Herald
, February 13, 1927, Kentucky Historical Society. 361
It was Imlay . . . who made Boone known
Maurice Manning,
A Companion for Owls
, 118.

361
“
Sir, I must be plain with you
” Daniel Boone to Nathaniel Rochester, July 17, 1785, DM14C7.

361
Historians, including Arthur K. Moore
Arthur K. Moore,
The Frontier Mind
, 158.

361
“
It is apparent that without wealth
” Moore, 144.

362
“
This man had a wife older
” Daniel Drake,
Pioneer Life in Kentucky
, 205–6.

363
“
In addition to premeditated personal injury
” Hammon, ed., 110.

363
“
I flater myself [that you will] Send
” Daniel Boone to Col. Robert Patterson, March 16, 1787, DM26C176[1].

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“
the Shawnees often ferried across to visit
” Ted Franklin Belue,
The Hunters of Kentucky
, 242.364 “
Go home and live at peace, and I will assure
” Benjamin Logan,
Kentucky Gazette
, August 18, 1787, DM33S17-25.

365
She never forgot Boone’s kindness
Boone Ballard to Draper, December 6, 1882, DM14C50[4].

365
Boone . . . arranged to trade the mare
Draper interview with George Edmonds, 1863, DM19S83.

365
Recent scholarship suggests that Blue Jacket
John Sugden,
Blue Jacket
, 1–4; Belue, 296n4.

365
“
Boone! Boone!
” Shane interview with Thomas Jones, ca. 1840s, DM12CC233.

365
The men all got drunk
JSD interview with Thomas Jones, ca. 1840s, DM12CC233.

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“
By the next spring we had some twelve or fifteen tons
” Hammon, ed., 82.

367
“
Father was busily employed in digging
” Hammon, ed., 81–82.

367
“
Oct. 9th 1788, recd. 15 caggs of ginseng of Capt. Fagan
” John Bakeless,
Daniel Boone
, 331; “Daniel Boone’s Account Book,” 330, DM14C92, DM6S330.

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“
In the fall of 1784 we moved out of Boone’s Station
” Hammon, ed., 80.

368
“
Then he also decided to take up residence
” Hammon, ed., 84.

368
“
dark complexioned & stern looking
” John F. Watson to Draper, March 4, 1853, DM1C19[2].

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“
In place of cane, the cabin sites were now
” Elizabeth A. Perkins,
Border Life
, 147.

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Some of the horses in the region
Dr. Phil Sponenburg, Letter to the author, August 15, 2005.

Boating in the West

372
“
I . . . found that he was one of that class of men
” Francis Baily,
Journal of a Tour in the Unsettled Parts of North America in 1796–1797
, 115–117.

Seventeen: Going East to Go West

375
One visitor recalled sleeping in the store
John Dabney Shane interview with James Lane, ca. 1840s, DM12CC57.

375
“
1790 Apl. 27 Van Lears, merchtr., write
” DM27C6.

375
he never got out of debt to Vanlear
DM27C30.

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“
The year 1790 marks the end of an era
” Archibald Henderson,
The Conquest of the Old Southwest
, 348.

375
“
Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone” European Magazine
, October 1790, Kentucky State Archives.

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even worked from time to time at his old profession
John P. Hale,
Trans-Allegheny Pioneers
, 170–71.

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“
There my father saw among Miller’s cattle
” Neal O. Hammon, ed.,
My Father, Daniel Boone
, 90.

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(This visit to Henry Miller’s farm)
Daniel Bryan to Draper, 1844, DM22C14.

377
“
Sum purson Must Carry out
” DM14C105.

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“
Captain Caperton did not do to my likes
” W. S. Laidley, “Daniel Boone in the Kanawha Valley,” 2 (1913): 11.

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“
Though he had fought as hard
” Hammon, ed., 110; DM6S219.

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“
As Boone grew older and increasingly enfeebled
” Annette Kolodny,
The Land before Her
, 83; John Bakeless,
Daniel Boone
, 347.

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It was reported that a hunting companion
J. P. Hale, “Daniel Boone, Some Facts and Incidents Not Hitherto Published,” 10.

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killed more deer than any of his neighbors
Lyman Copeland Draper note from Edward Bryan, October 20, 1863, DM19S170.

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He especially enjoyed hunting deer in Teaze’s Valley
Ralph Clayton to Draper, April 10, 1883, DM16C45.

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“
His large head, full chest, square shoulders
” Reuben Gold Thwaites,
Daniel Boone
, 212–13.

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“
hair was moderately black, eyes blue
” Hammon, ed., 140.

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It was said that in 1792
Hale, 9.

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Later he told Draper
Hammon, ed., 101.

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“
On the way Father put his head over
” Hammon, ed., 99.

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“
for his qualities and experience as a counselor
” Hale, 5.

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“
but seemed to be driven
” Hale, 5.

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“
ate their meals from a common rough tray
” Draper interview with William Champ, 1863, DM15C31.

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One bear might yield twenty gallons
Hammon, ed., 102.

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The legend is that Daniel Boone
John Mack Faragher,
Daniel Boone
, 272.

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“
In 1797, the surveyor general of Kentucky
” Stephen Aron,
How the West Was Lost
, 84.

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“
Sir–After my best Respts to your Excelancy
” Bakeless, 349; Samuel M. Wilson, “Daniel Boone, 1734–1934,” 44.

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“
until 1818, when definite legislative steps were taken
” Thomas D. Clark,
A History of Kentucky
, 258.

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When the Wilderness Road was rebuilt
Ellen Eslinger, ed.,
Running Mad for Kentucky
, 66.

386
“
In 1796 he began surveying again
” Neal O. Hammon, “Daniel Boone, the Surveyor,” 6.

Eighteen: To the Farther West

389
A sheriff tried to serve a warrant
Stephen Aron,
How the West Was Lost
, 85.

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“
Nowhere in America has the almost instantaneous
” Aron,
How the West Was Lost
, 2; William Darby,
The Emigrant’s Guide to the Western and Southwestern States and Territories
, 206.

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“
A hunter’s life is one of constant excitement
” James B. Finley,
Autobiography of the Rev. James B. Finley
, 96.

390
the Spanish government embarked on a policy to encourage
John Mason Peck,
Life of Daniel Boone
, 168.

390
“
[T]heir children must absolutely be Catholics
”“Terms of Settlement in Missouri,”
Carolina Gazette
, November 14, 1799.

391
“
He [Boone] wanted to know the quantity of land
” Neal O. Hammon, ed.,
My Father, Daniel Boone
, 107.

392
The grant noted that besides slaves
Boone Family Papers, Missouri Historical Society. 392 “
will be sold: On Thursday of the 4th” Kentucky Gazette
, September 19, 1798, Kentucky State Archives. 392 “
Boone was soured against Kentucky
” Edward Coles to Lyman Copeland Draper, 1848, DM6S310–311.

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“
unwilling to live among men who were
” Francis Baily,
Journal of a Tour in the Unsettled Parts of North America, 1796–1797
, 116.