Boone: A Biography (75 page)

392
“
When Boone went out to the site
” Elizabeth A. Perkins,
Border Life
, 134–35; JDS interview with William Risk, 1840s, DM11CC87.

393
“
Boone’s honor compelled him
” Daniel Bryan to Draper, April 14, 1843, DM22C7.

393
As late as July 13, 1798, he had
Neal O. Hammon, “Daniel Boone the Surveyor,” 6.

393
“
We found an unusually large poplar tree
” Hammon, ed., 108.

394
“
He said that when he left Kentucky
” Hammon, ed., 111.

394
they chose a route that took them
Hazel Atterbury Spraker,
The Boone Family
, 117.

394
known as the prettiest girl
DM65332[3]. Quoted from
History of the Lower Scioto Valley
, 102.

395
“
too crowded—I want more elbow room
” Timothy Flint,
Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone
, 178.

395
“
accompanied by three or four hunting dogs
” John M. Krum to Draper, January 17, 1883, DM16C54[1–2].

396
Later Boone said he only went
Peck, 167.

396
“
I purchased the home grant of Robert Hall
” Hammon, ed., 113.

397
“
[T]hrough several years to come
” Reuben Gold Thwaites,
Daniel Boone
, 224.

397
On May 2, 1800, Daniel Morgan
Boone Family Papers, Missouri Historical Society. 398
the river was named Pekitanoui
Stephen Aron,
American Confluence
, 21.

398
Where the rivers joined, the Missouri
Aron,
American Confluence
, xvii–xviii. 398 “
a torrent of yellow mud rushed
” Mark Twain,
Life on the Mississippi, Mississippi Writings
, 235.

398
“
strong brown god—sullen, untamed, and intractable
” T. S. Eliot, “The Dry Salvages,” in
Complete Poems and Plays, 1909–1950
, 130.

399
“
It is a thoroughly masculine river
” Stanley Vestal,
The Missouri
, 5.

400
It was the place where North met South
Aron,
American Confluence
, xxi.

401
“
In the latter part of the summer of 1801
” Hammon, ed., 119.

402
The Osages called a gun a
wa-ho-ton-the Aron,
American Confluence
, 37.

402
Later Boone pointed out that they were lucky
Samuel Boone to Draper, July 5, 1854, DM22C73[3].

402
“
[Derry Coburn] was a good Negro
” Hammon, ed., 128.

404
“
He never was so mad in his life
” S. H. Jones to Draper, August 23, 1889, DM21C14[1–2].

404
“
He stated to the writer
” Peck, 176.

404
Before Derry got the trap open
John Mack Faragher,
Daniel Boone
, 285.

405
“
more by
equity
than by law
” Draper interview with Nathan Boone, 1851, DM6S225.

405
“
Whipped
and cleared”
William Bryan and Robert Rose, Pioneer Families of Missouri
, 89.

405
“
Let not my gray hairs
” Millard Fillmore Stipes,
Gleanings in Missouri History
, 196.

405
“
A Certain James Meek & the bearer
” Daniel Boone Papers, June 30, 1804, DM15C65.

405
People who knew Boone at this time
Thwaites, 226.

406
“
Take it and go,” Boone said
Stipes, 196.

406
“
Mr. Boone, a respectable old man
” Delassus to his successor Stoddard, 1804. Quoted by Frederick L. Billon to Draper, April 17, 1885, DM15C64.

406
“
Hays used to whip aunt fearfully
” Evira L. Coshow to Draper, May 3, 1887, DM21C63[3].

406
“
Hays was a brave man and always foremost
” Hammon, ed., 75.

407
“
Hays said if he would not come in
” Abner Bryan to Draper, 1890, DM4C58.

407
“
An affirmative answer being given
” Peck, 170.

407
“
This was repeated so often
” Bryan and Rose, 45.

408
“
At sugar-making time in February
” Hammon, ed., 113.

408
“
With stones for the fireplace, sticks for the
” Hammon, ed., 125.

411
“
We fastened our fur vests with strings
” Hammon, ed., 124.

411
“
and I had to thank the Indians for that
” Hammon, ed., 124.

412
“
My father had great confidence in Kenton
” Hammon, ed., 47.

413
“
The venison supper was almost ready
” Edna Kenton,
Simon Kenton
, 262.

413
“
The old pioneers seemed to enjoy themselves
” Hammon, ed., 47.

413
“
Timothy Flint perceived an almost mystical
” Arthur K. Moore,
The Frontier Mind
, 43; Timothy Flint,
Recollections of the Last Ten Years
, 66–67.

413
“
incertitude of property is an inexhaustible source
” Thomas D. Clark,
The History of Kentucky
, 90.

414
“
opposed to the scheme from the beginning
” Joseph McCormick to Draper, November 12, 1871, DM30C111.

415
And he had never registered his deeds
Bryan and Rose, 41.

415
“
Meriwether Lewis, [new] governor of Louisiana
” Lyman Copeland Draper,
The Life of Daniel Boone
, xxi. 415 “
My wife is getting old and needs
” Daniel Bryan to Draper, ca. 1844, DM22C14[14].

Nineteen: Done All the Good That I Can

418
“
My brother-in-law, Col. Boone
” Elizabeth Corbin to M. D. Lewis,
Daily Dispatch
(St. Louis), April 2, 1868, DM16C97.

419
The hunt was so successful
George Stoner to Lyman Copeland Draper, 1868, DM24C55[10–11].

419
“
The canoe was covered with Bear skins
” Stephen Hempstead to Draper, March 6, 1863, DM16C78[2].

419
“
When my father heard of it
” Neal O. Hammon, ed.,
My Father, Daniel Boone
, 115.

420
“
He rented a house nearly opposite
” Stephen Hempstead to Draper, March 5, 1863, DM16C75.

420
“
I perceived that the ball had hit the piece of bark
” John James Audubon,
Delineations of American Scenery and Character
, 60–61.

420
“
There were then thousands of buffaloes
” John James Audubon,
Ornithological Biography
, 1:506.

421
“
It is quite certain Dl. Boone did return to Ky
” Abner Bryan to Draper, 1890, DM4C56.

422
“
The old man was still erect in form
” Washington Irving,
Astoria
, 298.

422
“
She remained there about a month
” Hammon, ed., 135.

423
It is quite possible she saw nothing remarkable
Carolyn Lott,
Rebecca Boone
, 24–25.

423
“
the Saddest affliction of his life
” Evira L. Coshow to Draper, May 25, 1885, DM21C45[2].

423
“
For this reason my father, Colonel Daniel Boone
” Hammon, ed., 116.

424
“
he had come a great distance to suck a bull
” Hammon, ed., 117.

424
“
The ‘new-comers’ like a mountain torrent
” John Mason Peck,
Forty Years of Pioneer Life
, 146.

424
“
After the peace, he occupied himself in hunting
” Timothy Flint,
Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone
, 185.

425
“
Daniel Boone had a vary great idea of the Pacific
” Michael Lofaro,
Daniel Boone
, 171; “Daniel Boone &” Manuscript 130, Wade Hays Family History, Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, CA.

425
“
While at the fort he became acquainted
” Hammon, ed., 136.

425
“
He went there for the double purpose of
” Hammon, ed., 136.

426
“
But nature is a stranger yet
” Emily Dickinson, No. 1400, in
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
, 599–600.

427
“
My father said he was as naturally inclined
” Hammon, ed., 137.

428
“
a countenance . . . ruddy and fair
” Peck, 187.

428
“
Every member of his family appeared to delight
” Peck, 187.

428
“
He was sociable, communicative
” Peck, 187.

428
“
proved an injury rather than a benefit
” and “
indifferent to the affairs of the world
” David Todd, quoted in Louise Phelps Kellogg, “The Fame of Daniel Boone,” 49.

428
“
while I could never with safety repose
” C. Wilder,
Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, the First White Settler of Kentucky
, 33.

429
“
instrument by which they lost their hunting grounds
” “A Traveler,”
Cincinnati National Republican
, August 19, 1823, DM16C67.

429
“
He destroys the wilderness and the game
” Richard Slotkin,
Regeneration through Violence
, 425.

430
take his cane and hobble out
Draper interview with Nathan and Olive Boone, 1851, DM6S277.

430
“
Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures
”“A Traveler,” DM16C67.

430
“
and knew not how much he owed
” Peck, 174.

431
According to a letter by James Robertson
Harriette Arnow,
Seedtime on the Cumberland
, 200; Felix Robertson to Draper, April 6, 1855, DM6XX651.

431
“
Col. Daniel Boone was a Baptist in sentiment
” James Bradley to Draper, August 1890, DM29C77[C].

432
“
Colo. Boone was a firm believer
” Stephen Hempstead to Draper, February 15, 1863, DM16C76[4].

432
There were sometimes Bible readings
George W. Ranck,
Boonesborough
, 49.

432
“
Deer Sister
” Daniel Boone Papers, DM27C88-89[1].

433
“
One world at a time
” and “
I did not know
” Robert D. Richardson Jr.,
Henry David Thoreau
, 389.

433
“
No sir, I always loved God ever since
” James E. Welch in
Christian Repository
(Louisville), March 1860, DM16C47.

433
“
His [Boone’s] worship was in secret
” Hammon, ed., 139.

434
“
He worshipped, as he often said
” Flint, 186.

434
“
I like the silent church before the service
” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” in
Emerson’s Prose and Poetry
, 130.

435
“
Many a Kentuckian engaged in much more heroic
” Arthur K. Moore,
The Frontier Mind
, 97.

435
“
I would not believe that tale
” Peck, 4.

437
After Boone’s death Nathan would say
Hammon, ed., 139.

438
Boone had given Nathan a fine silver watch
Lucile Morris Upton and John K. Hulston,
Nathan Boone, the Neglected Hero
, 73.

439
“
I gave directions before leaving home
” Hammon, ed., 137.

439
“
too rough and uncouth
” Hammon, ed., 138.

439
“
Soon after this event
” Peck, 184.

439
“
Another of cherry was prepared
” Peck, 184.

440
“
[T]he coffin appeared marvelously beautiful!
” Elizabeth Corbin to M. D. Lewis,
Daily Dispatch
(St. Louis), April 2, 1868, DM16C97.

440
“
rub and polish it up, and cooly whistle
” Delinda Boone Craig interview with Draper, 1866, DM30C78.

440
he would lie down in the coffin to show
William S. Bryan and Robert Rose,
Pioneer Families of Missouri
, 49; DM21C45[3].

440
“
[H]e commenced scraping a horn
” Nathan Kouns to Draper, January 16, 1863, DM16C36.

440
he repaired rifles friends and neighbors
Bryan and Rose, 50; Peck, 185.

441
“
He was rather low of stature
” James E. Welch in the
Christian Repository
(Louisville), March 1860, DM16C47.

442
“
No . . . I can’t say I was ever lost
” Chester Harding,
My Egotistigraphy
, 35–36.

442
“
He began to complain of an acute burning
” Hammon, ed., 139.

444
“
I am going; don’t grieve for me
” and the account of Boone’s death Draper interview with Delinda Boone Craig, 1866, DM30C83.

444
“
Daniel Boone died
” Daniel Bryan to Draper, April 14, 1843, DM22C7.

Twenty: Across the River into Legend

447
“
[I]t was the figure of Daniel Boone
” Richard Slotkin,
Regeneration through Violence
, 21.

447
“
too highly colored
” Lyman Copeland Draper interview with Joseph Scholl, 1868, DM24S218.