CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
Preface[vii]
I.Ancestry and Training[1]
II.The Nimrod of the Yadkin[13]
III.Life on the Border[24]
IV.Red Man against White Man[35]
V.Kentucky Reached at Last[55]
VI.Alone in the Wilderness[71]
VII.Predecessors and Contemporaries[85]
VIII.The Hero of Clinch Valley[97]
IX.The Settlement of Kentucky[113]
X.Two Years of Darkness[129]
XI.The Siege of Boonesborough[146]
XII.Soldier and Statesman[169]
XIII.Kentucky's Path of Thorns[192]
XIV.In the Kanawha Valley[211]
XV.A Serene Old Age[223]
Index[243]