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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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his was iu1774. Then one Richard Henderson, a Carolinian, by Boonesassistance, made a treaty with the Cherokees for certain landslying between the Kentucky and Cumberland Ilivers, where itwas proposed to establish a colony. The ground had still to bo.fought for with other tribss; but in spite of all obstacles, a fortof block-houses and cabiris was planted in the summer of 1775,at Boonesborough—the pioneer working with his axe in one handand his rifle in the other. A sort of legislative council made lawsfor the new settlement, which was regarded as an off-shoot fromthe state of Virginia. Boone then returned to his family, which, with three others,he brought into Kentucky in Sei)tember. The four women ofthis party—Mrs. Boone, Mrs. MGarry, Mrs. Denton, and Mrs.Hogan—were the first of white complexion who entered thecountry—the mothers of the west. The war just then break-ing out, and all the horrors of Indian hostility impending, theheroism of these women deserves especial honor.
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SHAAVANEE CHIEF. P. 55. DANIEL BOONE. 55 tt soon became necessary to keep a careful watch upon thomovements of the Indians. All aloniz tho hnrW ih- impressiongained strength that savages, instigated and backed by theBritish, would suddenly swoop down and lay all waste. Thehuted race of c:ibin(>rs, those speculators who came out toobtain a pi-jcuipaaa i ,-ii; uy Lu,i-,!iiig a cabin and planting acrop; the wretclu^dtrauiTs who were always wandering about thefrontier; the hunters, who were revelling among the countlessherds of game, now for the first time seen—all began, during thewinter and spring of 177G, to draw closer to the stations.And within these stations men pat round the fire with loadedritluri, aud LuiU u,lii- .....t, ui ua\ cituiu and peril with uevf interest,us every sound reminded them how near their deadly enemiesmi -lit be. And from hour to hour scouts came in with rumorsof natives seen here and there; and parties of the bold rangerstightened their belts, and left th

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