| 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] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| FACING PAGE | |
| Portrait of Daniel Boone | [Frontispiece] |
| Boone's powder-horn and bake-kettle | [30] |
| A Boone tree, 1760 | [56] |
| A survey note by Boone | [120] |
| Fort Boonesborough | [136] |
| Climax of the treaty | [162] |
| Site of Boonesborough to-day | [174] |
| Boone's cabin in St. Charles County, Missouri | [224] |
| Nathan Boone's house in St. Charles County, Missouri | [230] |
| Boone's religious views (two pages) | [234] |
| Boone's monument at Frankfort, Ky. | [240] |