Boone: A Biography (71 page)

174
Historians have pointed out
George W. Ranck,
Boonesborough
, 20.

175
“
After some perplexity, resolved
” Draper, 346.

175
The fort Henderson designed
Ranck, 36.

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“
To give you a small specimen
” Draper, 372.

178
“
Henderson took up his quarters
” Ranck, 26.

178
“
It was all anarchy and confusion
” J. F. D. Smyth,
A Tour of the United States of America
, 1:217, quoted in W. S. Lester,
The Transylvania Company
, 111.

179
“
Much tormented with Ticks
” Nicholas Cresswell,
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell
, 79.

180
“
April 3, 1775, Mr. Bryce Martin enters
” Richard Henderson journal, quoted in Robert Lee Kincaid,
The Wilderness Road
, 106.

180
“
that magnificent tree, the sole cathedral
” Ranck, 31.

180
A platform had been built
H. Addington Bruce,
Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road
, 122.

180
possibly the only time a prayer
Ruby Addison Henry,
The First West
, 51.

180
“
You are called and assembled
” Draper, 365–66.

181
“
for debtors and other persons
” Robert Cain, ed.,
Colonial Records of North Carolina
, 9:1175–76.

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“
to answer for an insult offered
” Draper, 367.

182
“
a bill for preserving the game
” Ranck, 204–6.

183
“
The session closed with
” Ranck, 30.

183
Henderson and the others had already decided
Lester, 22–23.

183
“
Realizing that it was ‘most advisable’
” Stephen Aron,
How the West Was Lost
, 67.

184
Smarting from the snub, Henry
Aron, 63.

184
“
Christian told Floyd that
” Neal O. Hammon, “No Stranger to Difficulty,” 55.

185
“
In our absence those at the camp
” Cresswell, 80.

185
catfish that weighed more than a hundred
Filson, 25.

185
“
The statutes prescribed four steps
” Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, “Land Claims, Early,” 535.

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“
an infamous Company of land Pyrates
” Henderson, 238.

186
“
Quit rents, they say, is a mark
” Ranck, 43.

186
Many already in Kentucky
Otis K. Rice,
Frontier Kentucky
, 117.

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“
Sunday, June 11th, 1775
” Cresswell, 84.

187
“
Rebecca Boone and her pioneer sisters
” Aron, 3.

187
would prove inhospitable even to poor
men Arthur K. Moore,
The Frontier Mind
, 4–5.

188
Men were drawn into the new
Annette Kolodny,
The Land before Her
, 8.

188
“
Our salt is exhausted
” Draper, 382.

189
“
After clearing, the best land for a time yielded
” Moore, 13.

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In 1784 Filson would write
Filson, 24.

190
“
My wife and daughter being the first
” Filson, 60.

190
“
Every Kentuckian ought to try my gait
” Shane interview with Nathaniel Hart Jr., 1843–44, DM17CC195.

Nine: The Trace and the River

191
“
that a present of two thousand acres
” George W. Ranck,
Boones borough
, 214.

192
While others such as Michael Stoner
Stephen Aron,
How the West Was Lost
, 77.

193
“
They flatter themselves that the addition
” Ranck, 215–16.

193
“
Therefore, the Memorialists hope
” Ranck, 216.

195
many tribes in Ohio
Otis K. Rice,
Frontier Kentucky
, 87.

195
The account books of the Transylvania Company
Lyman Copeland Draper,
The Life of Daniel Boone
, 393.

196
Twenty years later when the ownership
Daniel Boone, deposition, July 27, 1795, Shelby County Deed Book, B1, 272–73.

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“
They had brought out a stock of seeds
” Elizabeth Fries Ellet,
Pioneer Women of the West
, 49.

197
“
This forenoon boon delivered 700 lbs.
” DM4QQ47.

198
“
What a Buzzel is amongst
” John Brown to Col. William Preston, May 5, 1775, DM4QQ15.

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“
The face of the country at that time
” Draper, 406.

198
there were more forests than meadows
Julian J. N. Campbell,
The Land of Cane and Clover
, 2.

198
“
When you take it between your fingers
” Craig Thompson Friend,
Along the Maysville Road
, 48.

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“
What a country it was
” Draper, 406–7.

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“
‘And now’
” Draper, 408.

200
“
When a young man was taken sick
” Told by Dr. Orlando Brown in W. H. Bogart,
Daniel Boone and the Hunters of Kentucky
, 125.

200
He would ride out to meet
Thomas Speed,
The Wilderness Road
, 45.

201
Col. William Russell of the Clinch
Michael Lofaro,
Daniel Boone
, 68.

201
new signs of Indians were seen every day
John Floyd to Col. William Preston, July 21, 1776, DM33S300-305.

201
Their resentment was directed
Neal O. Hammon, “No Stranger to Difficulty,” 68.

201
“
When Hogg offered Governor Patrick Henry
” George Morgan Chinn,
Kentucky Settlement and Statehood, 1750–1800
, 114.

201
On June 24, 1776, the Virginia Convention
Draper, 410.

202
In November 1778 the Virginia legislature
Reuben Gold Thwaites,
Daniel Boone
, 134n. 202 “
the customary Bible reading
” Ranck, 49.

202
the nickname
“
Duck
” Daniel Bryan to Draper, DM22C14[11]; Ella Hazel Atterbury Spraker,
The Boone Family
, 119.

202
“
as it was against their fathers’ orders
” Stephen Hempstead to Lyman Copeland Draper, February 15, 1863, DM16C76.

203
“
The Indians chose ground
” Daniel Bryan to Draper, February 27, 1843, DM22C5[9].

203
“
We have done pretty well for old Boone
” Draper, 413.

204
the young chiefs and warriors planned
Gregory Evans Dowd,
A Spirited Resistance
, 48.

204
The British had already given Dragging Canoe
Dowd, 49.

205
“
The horse was cross and would bite
” Neal O. Hammon, ed.,
My Father
,
Daniel Boone
, 49.

206
“
pretty squaws
” Draper, 415.

206
“
Oh yes yes you would
” Draper interview with Delinda Boone Craig, 1866, DM30C48.

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“
One in particular, big indn:, called Big Jimmy
” John Dabney Shane interview with Josiah Collins, 1840s, DM12CC75.

209
“
At the crack of the guns
” Hammon, ed., 50.

209
“
For God’s sake don’t kill her
” Draper, 420.

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“
The exultation of the poor girls
” Draper, 420.

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“
After the girls came to themselves
” John Floyd to Col. William Preston, July 21, 1776, DM33S300-305.

209
“
Thank Almighty Providence
” Evira L. Coshow to Draper, March 31, 1885, DM21C29.

210
Dragging Canoe and his warriors did
Dowd, 53.

210
“
She laughed and cried for joy
” Evira L. Coshow to Draper, May 2, 1885, DM21C37[2].

211
Hanging Maw rose to be
Pat Alderman,
The Overmountain Men
, 276.

212
“
a man distinguished for his love” New York Magazine
, May 1, 1796, 280, DM6S337.

212
“
Boonesborough had no water supply
” Chinn, 93.

212
Boone officiated
Draper, 423.

212
“
the guests were treated
” Ranck, 53.

212
She later told her niece
Evira L. Coshow to Draper, June 12, 1885, DM21C48[1].

Freemasonry

214
“
The people of Kentucky were from the first
” Lyman Copeland Draper,
The Life of Daniel Boone
, 393.

214
The first lodge in Kentucky
J. Winston Coleman Jr.
Masonry in the Bluegrass
, 9–44.

215
The Harrodsburg community
Nancy O’Malley,
Stockading Up
, 16.

215
“
the present laudable cause
” George W. Ranck,
Boonesborough
, 245.

215
“
in making a Diversion and exciting
” Randolph C. Downes,
Council Fires on the Upper Ohio
, 195; John Mack Faragher,
Daniel Boone
, 151.

Ten: Light and Shadow

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“
Hill and valley, timberland and thicket
” Reuben Gold Thwaites,
Daniel Boone
, 131.

216
“
I want as much to return
” John Floyd to Col. William Preston, July 21, 1776, DM33S300-305.

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“
Their attempts to defend themselves
” Nancy O’Malley,
Stockading Up
, 16.

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“
We are surrounded with enemies
” Lyman Copeland Draper,
The Life of Daniel Boone
, 435.

218
When they found Ray’s mangled body
Draper, 438.

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“
Boys we are gone—let us sell
” Draper, 440.

219
“
Well, Simon, you behaved like a man
” Draper, 441.

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“
For God’s sake, dig a hole under
” Draper, 442.

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two of the wives, both expert shots
George Morgan Chinn,
Kentucky Settlement and Statehood, 1750–1800
, 159.

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Levi Todd reported that a total
Neal O. Hammon and Richard Taylor,
Virginia’s Western War, 1775–1786
, 53.

221
visited by the “specter” of his stepson
JDS interview with Mrs. Sarah Graham, ca. 1840, DM12CC45.

222
According to Nancy O’Malley
Nancy O’Malley, “Frontier Defenses and Pioneer Strategies in the Historic Settlement Era,” 64.

222
“
We were received with great joy
” Daniel Bryan to Lyman Copeland Draper, February 27, 1843, DM22C5[11].

222
cows were sometimes hesitant
John Dabney Shane interview with John Gass, 1840s, DM11CC12.

222
In November, Cornstalk
Otis K. Rice,
Frontier Kentucky
, 93.

223
“
When he arose, he was in nowise confused
” Louise Phelps Kellogg and Reuben Gold Thwaites,
Documentary History of Dunmore’s War, 1774
, 433, DM3Dxviii. 223 “
You may, by the Governor’s
” Col. William Fleming to the Shawnee chiefs. William Fleming Papers, Washington and Lee University, File PP4, Leyburn Library, Lexington, VA. 224
what they found was more often danger
Daniel Blake Smith, “This Idea in Heaven,” 95.

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“
14 persons, that I knew
” Lucien Beckner, “Interview with Sarah Graham,” 244, quoted in Smith, 93.

224
took “turns at the port-holes, from which
” Thwaites, 142.

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“
rendering it a black smelly goop
” Ted Franklin Belue,
The Hunters of Kentucky
, 165.

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“
There were original notes for salt
” Robert E. McDowell, “Bullitt’s Lick,” 27.

226
“
A blinding snow-storm was in progress
” Thwaites, 147.

227
It was an odd scene
Neal O. Hammon, ed.,
My Father, Daniel Boone
, 54–55.

228
“
That is not true
” John James Van Noppen and Ina Woestemeyer Van Noppen,
Daniel Boone Backwoodsman
, 139.

229
“
Don’t fire—if you do, all will be massacred
” Draper, 464.

229
“
I think it was a Saturday
” Hammon, ed., 53.

230
“Brothers!
What I have promised you
” Draper, 465.

230
As a hostage Boone was probably not
Draper, 490nm. 231 “
O, Captain Boone, this is not intended
” Draper, 466.

231
nothing but a “damned squaw
” Draper, 467.

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a scalp brought only fifty dollars
Draper interview with Joseph Jackson, 1844, DM11C62[10].

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“
an uncomfortable journey, in very severe weather
” John Filson,
The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke
, 63.

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“
it would have killed him
” Draper, 469.

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“
The name Chillicothe means
” Draper, 487n11.

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“
Chillicothes” were the clan from which
Belue, 13.