LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE,
The
GREAT WESTERN HUNTER AND PIONEER,
Comprising An
Account Of His Early History; His Daring And Remarkable Career As The First Settler Of Kentucky; His Thrilling Adventures With The Indians, And His Wonderful Skill, Coolness And Sagacity Under All The Hazardous And Trying Circumstances Of Western Border Life.
BY CECIL B. HARTLEY.
To Which Is Added
His Autobiography Complete As Dictated By Himself, And Showing
His Own Belief That He Was An Instrument
Ordained To Settle The Wilderness.
PREFACE
The subject of the following biography, the celebrated Colonel Daniel Boone, is one of the most remarkable men which this country has produced. His character is marked with originality, and his actions were important and influential in one of the most interesting periods of our history—that of the early settlement of Kentucky. Boone is generally acknowledged as the founder of that State. His having explored it alone to a considerable extent; his leading the earliest bands of settlers; his founding Boonesborough, the nucleus of the future State; his having defended this and other stations successfully against the attacks of the Indians; and the prominent part which he took in military affairs at this period of distress and peril, certainly render his claims to the distinguished honor of founding Kentucky very strong.