Life and Times of Colonel Daniel Boone

This illustrated book was published in 1860; comprisinghistory of the early settlement of Kentucky.. 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 origi- nality and his actions were important and influ- ential 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 necleus of the future State ; his having defended this and other stations suc- cessfully against the attacks of the Indians ; and the prominent part which he took in militaryaffairs at this period of distress and peril cer- tainly render his claims to the distinguished honor of founding Kentucky very strong. . But Boone personally reaped very little benefit from his patriotic and disinterested ex- ertions. The lands which he had first cultivated and defended were taken from him by the chicanery of the law; other lands granted to him by the Spanish government were lost by his inattention to legal forms ; and in his old age he was wiithout an acre of land which he could call his own. A few years before his death a small tract such as any other settler in Missouri was entitled to was granted him by Congress. But he has left to his numerous posterity a nobler inheritance that of an imperishable fame in the annals of his country! . .