Heroes and Hunters of the West. Frost John

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       John Frost

      Heroes and Hunters of the West

      Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066146252

Table of Contents

       Daniel Boone.

       Simon Kenton.

       George Rogers Clarke.

       Benjamin Logan.

       Samuel Brady.

       Lewis Whetzel.

       Caffree, M’Clure, and Davis.

       Charles Johnston.

       Joseph Logston.

       Jesse Hughes.

       Siege of Fort Henry.

       Simon Girty.

       Joshua Fleehart.

       Indian Fight on the Little Muskingum.

       Escape of Return J. Meigs.

       Estill’s Defeat.

       A Pioneer Mother.

       The Squatter’s Wife and Daughter.

       Captain William Hubbell.

       Murder of Cornstalk and his Son.

       The Massacre of Chicago.

       The Two Friends.

       Desertion of a young White Man, from a party of Indians.

       Morgan’s Triumph.

       Massacre of Wyoming.

       Heroic Women of the West.

       Indian Strategem Foiled.

       Blackbird.

       A Desperate Adventure.

       Adventure of Two Scouts.

       A Young Hero of the West.

      PREFACE.

      To the lovers of thrilling adventure, the title of this work would alone be its strongest recommendation. The exploits of the Heroes of the West, need but a simple narration to give them an irresistible charm. They display the bolder and rougher features of human nature in their noblest light, softened and directed by virtues that have appeared in the really heroic deeds of every age, and form pages in the history of this country destined to be read and admired when much that is now deemed more important is forgotten.

      It is true, that, with the lights of this age, we regard many of the deeds of our western pioneer as aggressive, barbarous, and unworthy of civilized men. But there is no truly noble heart that will not swell in admiration of the devotion and disinterestedness of Benjamin Logan, the self-reliant energy of Boone and Whetzel, and the steady firmness and consummate military skill of George Rogers Clarke. The people of this country need records of the lives of such men, and we have attempted to present these in an attractive form.

      CAPTURE OF BOONE.

      HEROES OF THE WEST.

Daniel Boone.

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      In all notices of border life, the name of Daniel Boone appears first—as the hero and the father of the west. In him were united those qualities which make the accomplished frontiersman—daring, activity, and circumspection, while he was fitted beyond most of his contemporary borderers to lead and command.

      Daniel Boone was born either in Virginia or Pennsylvania, and at an early age settled in North Carolina, upon the banks of the Yadkin. In 1767, James Findley, the first white man who ever visited Kentucky, returned to the settlements of North Carolina, and gave such a glowing account of that wilderness, that Boone determined to venture into it, on a hunting expedition. Accordingly, in 1769, accompanied by Findley and four others, he commenced his journey. Kentucky was found to be all that the first adventurer had represented, and the hunters had fine sport. The country was uninhabited, but, during certain seasons, parties of the northern and southern Indians visited it upon hunting expeditions. These parties frequently engaged in fierce conflicts, and hence the beautiful region was known as the “dark and bloody ground.”

      BATTLE OF BLUE LICKS.

      On the 22d of December, 1769, Boone and one of his companions, named John Stuart, left their encampment on the Red river, and boldly followed a buffalo path far into the forest. While roving carelessly from canebrake to canebrake, they were