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ks; fate of the captured; their increase during the Revolution; their wars; governments instituted by them; their individualism; character of the pioneer population; what they had done at the close of the Revolution; Balme La, his expedition against Detroit, II; Baubin captures Boon, II; Bear Grass Creek, ravaged by Indians, II; Big Bone Lick, remains of mastodon discovered at, I; Big Foot, a gigantic chief of the Wyandots, II; fight with Andrew Poe, 134; killed by Adam Poe; Big Island of the French Broad, the; Christian's army reach, I; Bingaman, his fight in the dark, II; Bird, Capt. Henry, dissolution of his expedition, II; his inroad; his retreat; loses his cannon; Blue Licks, visited by Boon, II; Indians retreat to; the backwoodsmen reach; the fight begins; battle of the; defeat of the whites; a wild panic; the Indians checked; a crushing disaster; Boiling Springs, fort built at, I; Boon, Daniel, his birth, I; removes to North Carolina and marries; his passion for hunting and exploration; his appearance; his character; his inscription on a tree; connection with Henderson; his claim to distinction; his success; goes to Kentucky; beauty of the country and abundance of game; attacked by Indians; capture and escape; wanderings; joined by his brother; lonely sojourn in the wilderness; joined by other hunters; "Gulliver's Travels" in camp; returns to North Carolina; meets the McAfees' at Powell's Valley; attempts to settle Kentucky; attacked by Indians; his son killed; pilots in Lord Dunmore's surveyors; in command of frontier forts; attacked by Indians; reaches the Kentucky River; begins to build Boonsborough; welcomes Henderson's company; the fort at Boonsborough; returns to North Carolina for his family; his prominence in Kentucky history; serves as a Kentucky burgess in the Virginia Legislature; his strange life; his daughter captured by Indians and rescued; the historic tree; original letter of; wounded in the attack on Boonsborough, II; captured by Indians; taken to Old Chillicothe; adopted into the Shawnee tribe; escapes from the Indians; makes a foray into the Indian country; outwits de Quindre; th
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