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Identifier: storiesofamerica00prat (find matches)
Title: Stories of American pioneers: Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Fremont, Kit Carson
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Pratt-Chadwick, Mara L. (Mara Louise)
Subjects: Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 Clark, William, 1770-1838 Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Carson, Kit, 1809-1868
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Educational publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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med to purchase Kentucky from theIndians who claimed it. They wished to make a settlement outthere, and they knew no one braver thanBoone to place in charge of the party. .. It was dangerous business. They had tomake a roadway through the wilderness, butBoone gladly set out. When they reachedthe Kentucky river, they began building afort. Three times the savages attacked them,and each time some of the white men werekilled. THE NEW HOME. But Daniel Boone was not the man tobe driven back. The fort was raised, pali-sades constructed ; and not until all was donedid Boone return to his home on the Clinch. The settlement was named Boonesboro,in honor of its daring leader; and, by andby, Daniel and his family moved out to it,brin<j^in^ many other families with them. The new colony prospered. In a yearthere were three hundred people living there.For a long time there had been- no troublewith the Indians. The people were begin-nincr to think there would be no trouble with them ever again. 31
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DANIEL BOONE. 33 But one day when three young girlswere rowing in a canoe in the river, the redmen sprang out from the reeds along thebank, and dragged the canoe to the oppositeshore. The girls screamed for help, and wereheard at the fort. Men came running down to the water, butit was too late. One of the girls was adaughter of Boone ; and when he came in atnight from hunting in the forests, the peoplerushed out to tell him. . Daniel Boone did not even stop to laydown his gun. Come with me, he saidto the men. And away they went to tryto find the three captives. For days theytraveled through the forests. It was nightwhen, at last, Boone and one companion, whohad hurried on ahead, reached the Indian 34 DANIEL BOONE. camp. There the three girls lay asleep, twoIndians watching over them. Bang! bang! went rifles from out of theforests. Two Indians fell. The other Indianswere too frightened to move. Bang ! bang ! bang ! Again the bulletswhizzed through the air. Then in rushedBoones friends.

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