Boone: A Biography (85 page)

Ray, William,
218

Redd, John,
304

Red River,
98

Regulator Movement,
89
,
124
–25,
126
,
130
,
156

Reid, Nathan,
199
,
202
,
209

Reynolds, Aaron,
315
–16,
326
–27,
400

Rice, Otis K.,
267
,
292

Riley, Capt. Bennett,
425

Road to the Old Settlements,
see
Wilderness Road

Roark, John B.,
129

Robertson, James,
157
,
159
–60,
279
,
304
,
431

Robinson Crusoe
(Defoe),
17
,
116
,
339
–41

Rochambeau, Compte de,
304

Rochester, Nathaniel,
361

Rocky Mountains,
403
,
418
,
419

Rogers, Jimmy,
248
,
250
,
401

Rogers, Joseph,
286

Rollins, Pemberton,
275

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
342

Ruddle’s Station,
298
,
317

Russell, Henry,
136
–37,
139
,
140

Russell, William,
132
,
134
,
135
,
136
,
140
,
141
,
146
,
147
,
151
,
168
,
201

Rutherford, Gen. Griffith,
284

Safford, Robert,
380

Salem, Indian settlement at,
305

Salisbury, town of, North Carolina,
36

salt,
184
,
186
,
188
,
225
–26,
413
–14

Sanders (boy),
194
–95

Santa Fe Trail,
424

Sassoonan (Delaware chief),
19

Saucy Jack,
39
–40,
57

Scholl, Abraham,
324
,
328
–29

Scholl, Joseph (son-in-law),
324
,
408

Scholl, Levina Boone (daughter),
77
,
287

death of,
408

Scholl, Peter (grandson),
302
,
324

Second Great Awakening,
433

“Self-Reliance” (Emerson essay),
449

Selkirk, Alexander,
116
,
339

Seminoles,
83

Senate, U.S.,
346

Senecas,
310

Sequoya,
67

Seven Years’ War,
40
–41,
58

Shade (Shawnee chief),
353

Shane, Rev. John Dabney,
63
,
74
,
163
,
252
,
256
,
269
,
282
,
327
,
392
–93

Shawnees,
7
–8,
11
,
19
,
41
,
47
,
58
,
66
,
86
,
98
,
122
,
136
,
138
,
161
,
182
,
300
,
305
,
309
,
363
–66,
376
,
381
–82,
413
,
434

adoption of kidnapped settlers,
204
–5,
233
–35,
237
,
246
,
429

assumption of their superiority to the whites as woodsmen,
242
,
250

Ned Boone killed by,
301
–2,
429

Boonesborough settlers and,
194
–95,
202
–13,
218
–21

British treaties with,
88
,
171
–72

Clark leads expeditionary force against, in 1782,
331
–32

DB as prisoner of the,
40
,
52
,
102
–6,
213
,
227
–49,
253

DB’s escape from, and return to Boonesborough,
249
–51

disappearing world of,
297

expedition against Boonesborough,
52
,
242
–43,
249
,
251
–74,
275

Fallen Timbers, defeat at,
332
–33,
365
,
382

female chief or village leader,
247

gauntlet,
231
,
233
,
234

Harrodsburg attacks of 1777,
218
,
219
,
220
,
221

Andrew Johnson’s escape from,
241
–42

Lord Dunmore’s War,
140
,
141
,
148
,
149
,
150

lovemaking,
243
–45

marriages,
243
–44

in mid-1780s,
352
–56

raids of 1780,
297
–98

religious beliefs,
245
–46

sale of prisoners to the British,
237
,
238

as scattered people,
103
–4,
246

traditional beliefs influenced by the Europeans,
246
–47

Treaty of Camp Charlotte,
151
–52

Treaty of Greenville,
382

Year of the Three Sevens,
218
–23

Shawnese Traditions
(Trowbridge),
243

Shelby, Isaac, xxv,
150
,
303
–4,
346
–47,
384
–86

Shelly, Percy Bysshe,
235

Shingas (Delaware chief),
44
–45

Shoenbrunn, Indian settlement at,
305

Shores, Thomas,
218

Short, Charles W. (botanist),
99

Simms, William Gilmore,
100

Simpson, Louis,
454

Six Nations,
see
Iroquois

Skaggs, Henry,
80

Skaggs’s Trace,
166

Slaughter, Thomas,
82
,
180

slavery,
70
,
224
,
299
,
362
,
391
,
392
,
393
,
402
,
403
,
418

DB as slave owner and trader,
348
,
361
,
362

first free black man in Kentucky,
305
–6

Slotkin, Richard,
334
,
429
,
447
,
449
,
450
–51,
454

Smith, Capt. Daniel,
150
–51

Smith, Daniel Blake,
89

Smith, Henry Nash,
454

Smith, Jedediah,
403
,
454

Smith, Capt. William Bailey,
185
,
209
,
221
,
222
,
260
,
262

defense of Boonesborough,
258
,
268

Society of Friends,
see
Quakers

Soelle, Rev. George,
128
–29,
133
–34

“Song of Myself” (Whitman poem),
117

“Song of the Open Road” (Whitman poem),
456
–57

Sons of Daniel Boone,
448

Sounding Gap,
141

South, Samuel,
257
–58

Southey, Robert,
xviii

Spain,
40
–41

Louisiana territory and,
390
,
396

Spraker, Hazel Atterbury,
75

St. Asaph’s,
see
Logan’s Station (earlier St. Asaph’s)

St. Charles, Missouri,
419
–20

St. Clair, General Arthur,
332
,
365
,
381
–82

Steele, Richard,
339

Stewart, George R.,
90

Stewart, Hannah Boone (sister),
29
,
60
,
84

Stewart, John (brother-in-law),
84
–85,
341

death of,
108
,
109
,
127

expedition of 1769,
94
,
95
,
98
,
100
,
102
–8

on Florida expedition,
82
–83

St. Louis, Missouri,
395
,
396
,
401
,
419

Stoner, Michael,
134
,
173
,
192
,
219
,
221
,
418
,
419

mission to warn surveyors of Indian threat,
141
–47,
357
,
419

Wilderness Road and,
163

Strother, James,
145

Stover, Jacob (uncle),
7
,
28

Stover, Sarah Boone (aunt),
3
,
7
,
28

sugaring,
53
–54,
286
–87,
387
,
408
,
409
,
420

Sugartree Creek,
52
–53

Boone house on,
54
,
65
,
80

Sullivan, Gen. John,
310

Susquehannocks,
19

sustainable hunting,
77
–78,
104

Sycamore Shoals,
157

Boone family move to,
129
–30

negotiations and signing ceremonies at,
159
–62,
262

Tackett’s Fort,
376

Tarleton, Lt. Col. Banastre,
302

Tate, Samuel,
56
–57,
58
,
130
,
164
,
168

son of,
167

Taylor, Hancock,
118
–19,
141
,
145
,
146
,
147

Taylor, James,
348

Taylor, Richard,
118
–19

Tecumseh,
365

Tellico Treaty of 1794,
211
–12

Tennessee,
130

Thames, Battle of the,
314

“There Was a Child Went Forth” (Whitman poem),
453

Thompson, Nicholas,
311

Thoreau, Henry David,
xxiv
,
56
,
110
,
117
,
121
,
427
,
433
,
434
,
446
,
451
–52,
457

Thwaites, Reuben Gold,
xxi
,
216
,
224
,
397

Todd, Col. John,
180
–81,
218
,
219
,
291

Battle of the Blue Licks,
316
–20,
322
,
324
,
325
,
327
,
328
,
330

Todd, Levi,
197
,
221
,
314
,
315
,
320
,
321
,
344
,
353

Todd, Robert,
320

Tomlinson, Grandmother,
312

Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America, A
(Imlay),
xviii
,
360
–61

Trabue, Daniel,
276
,
277
–78,
286
,
297

Transylvania Company,
xxi
,
94
,
161
,
172
,
173
,
183
,
186
,
191
–92,
195
–96,
197
,
201
,
279

DB’s payment in land from,
162
,
185
,
191
–93,
196
,
202
,
283

land purchase declared invalid,
192
,
201
–2,
223

name change from Louisa Company,
160

political enemies of,
184

see also
Boonesborough; Henderson, Judge Richard

Transylvania Convention of December 21, 1775,
194

Transylvania Trail,
see
Wilderness Road

trapping methods,
37
,
38

Travels
(Bartram),
343
,
454

Treaty at Lochabar,
88
,
172

Treaty of Camp Charlotte,
151
–52,
223

Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768,
88
,
89
,
135
,
157
,
172

Treaty of Hard Labor,
88
–89,
89
,
134
–35,
154
,
172

Treaty of Pittsburgh, 1775,
195

Treaty of San Lorenzo,
390

Trigg, Lt. Col. Stephen,
316
–20,
322
–23,
324
,
325
,
327
,
328

Trowbridge, C. C.,
243

Trudeau, Don Zenon,
390
,
391
–92,
392
,
395
,
396
,
414

Tryon, Gov. William,
124
,
125

Turner, Frederick Jackson,
96

Tuscaroras,
19

Tutelas,
19

Twain, Mark,
376
,
398

Twitty, William,
164
,
167
,
168

Twitty’s Fort,
168

University of North Carolina,

Henderson Papers at,
xxii

U.S. Army,
438

Van Bibber, John,
376

Van Bibber, Joseph,
376

Van Bibber, Matthias (Tice),
381
,
410
–11,
413

Van Bibber, Rachel,
376

Van Bibber family,
366
,
367
,
370
,
394