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Title: The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman

Author: Uncle Philip

Release Date: December 7, 2008 [EBook #27431]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

In the contents list for Chapter II, 'Daniel Doone is rejoiced' was
changed to 'Daniel Boone'. 'Boon' in the frontispiece illustration
caption has however been retained.

Variations in use of hyphens have been standardised within the text.

Less usual spelling of words such as rackoon and periogues have been
left as they appear in the original book.

The spelling of Colonel Calloway/Calaway has been left as it appears
in the original.

THE
ADVENTURES
OF
DANIEL BOONE,
THE
KENTUCKY RIFLEMAN.

BY
THE AUTHOR OF "UNCLE PHILIP'S CONVERSATIONS."

"Too much crowded--too much crowded--I want more
elbow-room."--_Boone on his way to Missouri._

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO., 200 BROADWAY.
PHILADELPHIA:
GEORGE S. APPLETON, 164 CHESNUT ST.
MDCCCL.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843,
By D. APPLETON & CO.,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
for the Southern District of New York.

TO
HIS YOUNG COUNTRYMEN
THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES,
AND ESPECIALLY
THE LADS OF KENTUCKY,
This Volume
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED,
BY UNCLE PHILIP.

[Illustration: DANIEL BOON.
From the Basso Relievo in the Rotunda
of the Capitol at Washington]

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
Page.
Daniel Boone is born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania--His
father removes to the Schuylkill--Boone's early passion
for hunting--Kills