ure of three girls by the
Indians--Boone and Calaway pursue--Are made
prisoners--Happy escape--New emigrants--County of
Kentucky--Indian warfare--Attacks upon Harrodsburgh and
Boonesborough--Expedition to the salt-licks on Licking
river--Courage of Boone--Overcomes two Indians--Is met by
a large Indian party--Made a prisoner--His long captivity
and escape 59

CHAPTER V.

Indian customs noticed by Boone during his
captivity--Mode of hardening children--Changing
names--Marriages--Burials--War parties--Celebration of
victories--Torturing prisoners--Making treaties of peace 80

CHAPTER VI.

Boone's disappointment upon not finding his
wife--Strengthening of Boonesborough--Indian
hostilities--Attack of Boonesborough--gallant
defence--Boone returns to North Carolina--Occurrences
during his absence--Boone returns--Goes to the Blue Licks
for salt--Death of the younger Boone--Daniel Boone
escapes--Kentucky divided into three counties--Hard
winter of 1781--Indian hostilities--Attack on Bryant's
station--Villany of Simon Girty 91

CHAPTER VII.

Disastrous defeat at the Blue Licks--General Clarke's
campaign--Efforts to restore peace--Sullenness of the
Indians--They continue their massacres--Stratagems on the
Ohio--Bold defence of Captain Hubbil--Halmar's
campaign--St. Clair's defeat--Debate in Congress--General
Wayne takes command--Defeats the Indians--Lays waste
their country--Concludes a treaty of peace with the
savages in August, 1795 109

CHAPTER VIII.

Happiness of the settlers--Boone roams through the
wilderness--Civilization sickens him--He loses his
lands--Moves to the Kanhawa--Disappointed in finding
game--Moves to Missouri--Purchase of Missouri from the
French--Anecdote related by Mr. Audubon--Boone loses his
wife--His sorrow--War with England--His old age--His
habits--He dies in 1818. 127

APPENDIX.

The adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, formerly a
hunter; containing a narrative of the wars of Kentucky,
as given by himself. 143

THE ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONE.

CHAPTER I.

Some men choose to live in crowded cities;--others are pleased with the
peaceful quiet of a coun