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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Daniel Boone, by Katharine E. Wilkie
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+Title: Daniel Boone
+       Taming the Wilds
+
+Author: Katharine E. Wilkie
+
+Release Date: March 2, 2008 [EBook #24730]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DANIEL BOONE ***
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+Daniel Boone
+
+
+TAMING THE WILDS
+
+
+
+
+by Katharine E. Wilkie
+
+
+
+
+SCHOLASTIC BOOK SERVICES
+
+Published by Scholastic Book Services, a division of
+Scholastic Magazines, Inc., New York, N.Y.
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+
+Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not reveal any evidence that
+the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
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+DANIEL BOONE: TAMING THE WILDS is one of the books in the _Discovery
+Series_ published by The Garrard Publishing Company, Champaign,
+Illinois. Other Discovery Books available in hardcover editions from
+The Garrard Publishing Company are:
+
+Clara Barton
+Alexander Graham Bell
+Buffalo Bill
+Daniel Boone
+Luther Burbank
+Richard E. Byrd
+Kit Carson
+George Washington Carver
+Henry Clay
+Stephen Decatur
+Amelia Earhart
+Thomas Alva Edison
+Benjamin Franklin
+Ulysses S. Grant
+Henry Hudson
+Andrew Jackson
+Thomas Jefferson
+John Paul Jones
+Francis Scott Key
+Lafayette
+Robert E. Lee
+Leif the Lucky
+Abraham Lincoln
+Francis Marion
+Samuel F. B. Morse
+Florence Nightingale
+Annie Oakley
+Robert E. Peary
+William Penn
+Paul Revere
+Theodore Roosevelt
+Booker T. Washington
+George Washington
+Eli Whitney
+Wright Brothers
+
+Copyright (C) 1960 by Katherine E. Wilkie. Copyright (C) 1961 by Scholastic
+Magazines, Inc. This Scholastic Book Services edition is published by
+arrangement with The Garrard Publishing Company.
+
+8th printing August 1966
+
+Printed in the U.S.A.
+
+Single copy price 45c. Quantity prices available on request.
+
+
+
+
+Daniel Boone
+
+TAMING THE WILDS
+
+
+
+
+_For David Lee_
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                   Page
+
+Daniel's Indian Friend                7
+
+Moving On                            15
+
+A Knock at the Door                  20
+
+On to Kentucky                       27
+
+Attacked by Indians                  34
+
+The Wilderness Road                  39
+
+The Rescue                           45
+
+The Fort Is Saved                    51
+
+Daniel Boone's Reward                59
+
+
+
+
+Daniel's Indian Friend
+
+
+Daniel Boone was a boy who lived on the edge of the deep woods in
+Pennsylvania. At that time this country still belonged to England.
+
+Friendly Indians often came out of the woods to visit the white men.
+Daniel liked the Indians. He liked them so well that he wished he could
+live with them.
+
+One day he was taking care of his father's cattle. The pasture was
+several miles from the settlement. Although Daniel was a ten-year-old
+boy, he sometimes became lonely by himself.
+
+Today he lay on a hillside and sang aloud. He wanted to hear a voice,
+even if it was only his own.
+
+There was a low laugh behind him. Daniel sprang to his feet. A tall,
+slim Indian boy stood a few feet away. The white boy liked him at once.
+
+"I sing, too," the young Indian said.
+
+He threw back his head and sang. Daniel could not understand a word.
+
+"I sing to the sun and the wind and the rain," the boy explained.
+
+"I like your Indian song," Daniel said, "but I'm glad you speak
+English."
+
+The boy patted the bow that hung over his right shoulder. "You like
+this?"
+
+The bow was strong and shining. Daniel ran a finger along the smooth
+wood.
+
+"I like it very much," he said.
+
+The other boy took an arrow and placed it on the bowstring. He pulled
+back the bow. The arrow flew away.
+
+"You get," the Indian said.
+
+Daniel ran after the arrow. He picked it up and looked back. The Indian
+boy was right beside him.
+
+He took the arrow from Daniel. Again he shot it. Again the white boy
+ran after it. The young Indian ran beside him.
+
+He shook his head when Daniel handed him the arrow.
+
+He handed Daniel the bow.
+
+"Shoot!" he said.
+
+Daniel took the bow in his hands. He pulled it back and let the arrow
+fly.
+
+By now Daniel had forgotten the cattle. He had forgotten everything but
+the wonderful bow, his new friend, and the wide, wild woods.
+
+After a while the boys came to a high hill. At the bottom was an Indian
+village. The brown-skinned boy took Daniel by the hand and ran toward
+the settlement.
+
+Several dogs barked at them. Some women were hoeing their gardens. They
+hardly looked up as the boys passed.
+
+An old woman was stirring something in an iron pot over a fire. It
+smelled good. Daniel remembered that he had eaten nothing since
+breakfast.
+
+His friend stopped and pointed to Daniel and himself. The old woman
+nodded. With a sharp stick, she lifted a piece of meat from the pot.
+
+The Indian boy took a broad leaf from a near-by bush. The woman dropped
+the hot meat on it.
+
+Now Daniel knew what to do. He, too, found a leaf. The woman gave him
+some meat. Soon the hungry boys had finished their lunch.
+
+That afternoon they swam in the clear, broad river. Then they lay on
+the bank in the sunshine. Daniel had never been so happy. However, he
+knew he must soon go home. His mother would worry if he did not return
+before dark.
+
+"I must go now. I must drive the cows home," he told his Indian friend.
+
+The boy frowned. "Women's work," he told Daniel.
+
+Daniel laughed. "It may be for the Indians, but it's not at the Boones'
+house. I think I'd like being an Indian. An Indian boy has more fun
+than a white boy."
+
+"There is much for an Indian to learn," the other told him. "We must
+learn to hunt, track animals, fish, and find our way in the
+wilderness."
+
+"Those things are not work. They are fun," Daniel told him. "I wish I
+were an Indian. I believe I'd make a better Indian than a white boy."
+
+When Daniel reached home at last, his mother scolded him.
+
+"You should not have gone off with that Indian boy. You can't trust the
+Indians," she told her son.
+
+"He was a good boy. I liked him," Daniel said.
+
+His mother shook her head. "Indians are not like us. We think
+differently from them."
+
+Daniel said nothing. But he thought his mother was mistaken.
+
+"_I believe I can think like an Indian_," he said to himself. "_Except
+for color, I'm more like an Indian than a white boy._"
+
+
+
+
+Moving On
+
+
+Several years went by. Then Father Boone called the family together.
+"Pack your things," he told them. "We are leaving here. Boones never
+stay long in one place. Besides, our farm land is worn out. We can buy
+rich land cheap to the southwest of here. We will settle there."
+
+Sixteen-year-old Daniel was happy. "I'm glad we are going," he said. "I
+feel crowded here. There are too many houses and too many people. And
+the game is getting scarce."
+
+Father Boone made ready for the journey. He got out the big wagon and
+hitched two horses to it. Mother Boone packed clothes, quilts, dishes,
+pots, pans, and kettles. She would fix food for the family along the
+way. Daniel tied a cow behind the wagon.
+
+The family said good-by to the neighbors and to their old home, and
+started. Mother, the girls, and the little children rode in the wagon.
+Father and the boys took turns riding the horses. Sometimes all of the
+Boones walked so that the horses could rest. Father and the boys had
+guns to kill birds and small animals for food along the way.
+
+The Boones traveled across Pennsylvania. On and on they went toward the
+new country. Daniel caught many rabbits, which his mother stewed. Once
+he shot a small black bear. Another time he killed a deer. This gave
+the Boones food for several days.
+
+At last the family came to the rolling, green Yadkin Valley in North
+Carolina. There were a few houses there already, but it was much wilder
+than in Pennsylvania.
+
+Father Boone said, "This is good farming land. We will stop here."
+
+Daniel looked all about him. There was level land close by. There were
+woods not far away. And there were mountains in the west. Daniel knew
+the hunting would be good.
+
+"I like this place," he said. "There's plenty of room here."
+
+Father Boone and the boys jumped off the horses. Mother Boone and the
+girls climbed down from the wagon. They fed the horses and the cow.
+They made a campfire. Father and the boys cut down trees and started to
+build a log house. Soon the Boones had a new home in the new land.
+
+The years went by. Daniel grew taller. His shoulders became wider. He
+was fair-haired and blue-eyed, lean and rugged. He hunted in the woods
+of the Yadkin Valley. He often brought home deer and bear. The Boones'
+neighbors said that Daniel was the best shot for miles around. Daniel
+Boone had grown up.
+
+
+
+
+A Knock at the Door
+
+
+When Daniel Boone was a young man, there was war between England and
+France. England sent troops to fight against the French in America. The
+French claimed the land west of the mountains. The English claimed the
+same land. The Indians sided with the French.
+
+Daniel Boone drove a supply wagon for the English and the Americans. He
+made friends with another young wagoner named John Finley. Finley had
+been to the land southwest of the mountains. Each night he and Boone
+sat by the campfire and talked.
+
+"I've been deep in the wilderness they call Kentucky," Finley told
+Boone. "It is a wonderful place. The forests go on and on and on. There
+are thousands of buffalo in Kentucky. There are deer, bear and small
+animals, too. It is a great land for hunters."
+
+"I want to go there," Daniel said.
+
+"There are Indians in the wilderness," Finley told Daniel. "They live
+to the north of Kentucky and to the south of Kentucky. They call the
+land their hunting ground. They do not like the white men to go there."
+
+"There should be room enough for both Indians and white men," Daniel
+Boone replied. He thought for a while. "Some day I am going to
+Kentucky."
+
+When Daniel went back home to the Yadkin Valley, he married a tall,
+dark-haired girl named Rebecca Bryan. Sometimes he liked to tease her.
+One summer day before they married he was sitting beside her under a
+big tree. Suddenly he took his broad-bladed knife and cut a long slit
+in her fresh white apron.
+
+"Why did you do that, Daniel?" she asked mildly.
+
+His blue eyes twinkled. "I guess I wanted to see if you had a temper,"
+he said.
+
+Because she wasn't angry, Daniel felt that she would make him a good
+wife. Life in the wilderness was often difficult and dangerous. He
+wanted a wife who did not become upset easily.
+
+They were married, and soon the first of their many children arrived.
+Daniel loved his children. As soon as his son James was old enough, he
+taught him to hunt.
+
+In the spring and summer Daniel would farm. In the autumn he hunted,
+and in the winter he trapped. He made long trips in the forest and
+brought home food for his family and valuable furs and deerskins. Many
+of these he sold. He enjoyed exploring as much as he enjoyed hunting.
+Once he even went as far south as Florida with the idea of settling
+there. But he was disappointed in the land. He longed to explore
+Kentucky, but did not want to go alone.
+
+One day the Boone family heard a knock at the door. It was Boone's old
+friend, John Finley.
+
+"Let's go to Kentucky, Daniel!" he said.
+
+"Let's!" Daniel agreed. "I think about it all the time. You know how
+much I love the wilderness. That's the one place I really feel at
+home."
+
+
+
+
+On to Kentucky
+
+
+Early in 1769, Daniel Boone, John Finley, and four other strong men
+started for Kentucky. One of the men was Daniel's brother-in-law. They
+took their guns. They carried animal traps, too. They planned to bring
+back skins and furs to sell.
+
+The hunters rode their horses across the mountains. Soon they came to
+Cumberland Gap, a narrow mountain valley which led into Kentucky. The
+Indians used the Gap also, but the white men did not see any of them at
+this time. It was weeks before they saw a single Indian.
+
+But they did see rich green meadows, which stretched ahead for miles.
+Silver rivers wound like ribbons through them. In some places there
+were low rolling hills and in others great towering mountains. The
+woods were thick and still. The sunlight made dancing patterns on the
+pine needles. Kentucky was as beautiful as John Finley had said.
+
+Everywhere they went the men found lots of game. There were deer and
+buffalo. There were fur-bearing animals, such as mink and otter and
+beaver. There were many different kinds of birds.
+
+When the men went hunting, they separated into pairs. One winter day
+Boone and his brother-in-law were captured by Indians. The Indians did
+not harm them, but they took all the white men's deerskins.
+
+"Get out of Kentucky and stay out!" the Indians told them.
+
+Daniel Boone did not scare easily. He and his brother-in-law did not
+want to leave Kentucky.
+
+But the other four were afraid. They returned to the settlements. Boone
+never saw Finley again. But Boone was soon joined by his brother,
+Squire, and a friend named Alexander Neeley. Squire had promised to
+harvest the crops back home and then join them in the late autumn with
+fresh horses, traps, and gunpowder. Skilled woodsmen that they were,
+the brothers somehow found each other in the wilderness.
+
+While they were hunting, the men separated again. They met every two
+weeks. One week Boone's brother-in-law did not return to camp. He never
+did come back. Five years later a skeleton with a powder horn beside it
+was found in a hollow tree. Perhaps he was wounded by an Indian. No one
+really knows what happened to him.
+
+Neeley was scared. He decided to go home alone. But Daniel and Squire
+stayed on all winter and spring. They hunted and trapped until they had
+a lot of skins. Then Squire went home to sell the skins and buy more
+gunpowder and traps.
+
+Daniel stayed on in the wilderness. He did not mind being alone. He was
+never afraid. With his trusty rifle, Tick-Licker, over his shoulder, he
+explored much of Kentucky. He was happy because the wilderness was wide
+and he felt free. After a few months, Squire came back. Again the
+brothers hunted together.
+
+At last Daniel said to Squire, "I'll go home with you this time. We
+have all the skins we can carry."
+
+"When we sell them, we'll have plenty of money to take to our
+families," Squire said happily.
+
+It did not happen that way. Indians attacked the brothers when they
+were nearly home and took the skins. The Boones were still poor men.
+
+But Daniel was happy. He was glad that he had roamed the wilderness for
+nearly two years. He was sorry he had lost the skins, but he was happy
+that he had seen Kentucky.
+
+
+
+
+Attacked by Indians
+
+
+Two years later Daniel Boone decided that he had been away from
+Kentucky long enough. "Pack up, Rebecca," he said to his wife. "Pack
+up, children. We Boones can't stay in one spot forever. We're going to
+move to Kentucky. It's wild and beautiful there. There'll be plenty of
+land for you young ones when you want homes of your own."
+
+So the Boones packed up. Six other families joined them. People always
+seemed ready to join Daniel in his search for adventure. The household
+goods and the farm tools were piled on pack horses. A few of the people
+rode horseback. But most of them walked. They drove their pigs and
+cattle before them. The rough trails made travel slow, but the families
+did not seem to mind.
+
+Just before they reached Cumberland Gap, Daniel Boone sent his
+sixteen-year-old son, James, on an errand.
+
+"Turn back to Captain Russell's cabin and ask him for the farm tools he
+and I were talking about," he told the boy. "You can catch up with us
+tomorrow."
+
+James reached Captain Russell's safely. He camped that night with
+several men who planned to join Boone. In the darkness some Indians
+crept up and killed them all.
+
+When the families with Boone heard the news, they no longer wanted to
+go to Kentucky. They turned and went back over the mountains. The Boone
+family was sad because of James' death. But Daniel would not give up
+his dream of living in Kentucky. It would just have to wait a little.
+He took his wife and children to a spot where they would be safe. But
+they did not go all the way back to the Yadkin Valley.
+
+Daniel learned that all through the Kentucky Wilderness the Indians
+were fighting the white men.
+
+Too many white men were coming west. Indians wanted to keep their
+hunting grounds for themselves. Daniel Boone and another man went into
+Kentucky to warn the surveyors who were measuring land there. Nearly
+all of them escaped safely. For a time, the Indians stopped fighting
+and Kentucky was peaceful again.
+
+
+
+
+The Wilderness Road
+
+
+Now a rich man named Richard Henderson had a big idea. He would try to
+buy Kentucky from the Indians for himself and start another colony. His
+own company would sell land to settlers. Henderson was Daniel's friend.
+Boone had talked to the Indians about the idea and thought they would
+sell the land. Many Indian tribes hunted in Kentucky, but the Cherokees
+were the most important. They had conquered the other tribes and ruled
+the land. Henderson sent Boone to ask the Cherokees to meet him at
+Sycamore Shoals in what is now Tennessee.
+
+Twelve hundred Indian men, women, and children came to the meeting
+place. Henderson had all his trading goods spread out. There were yards
+and yards of red cloth. There were hundreds of bright new guns. There
+were beads and pins and little mirrors for the women. Henderson's
+company had paid a great deal of money for the trading goods.
+
+The Indians were like children about the business of trading land for
+goods. They loved the bright-colored trinkets. But they knew nothing
+about the value of land.
+
+Although they had their own lawyer, they traded Kentucky to Henderson
+for a tiny part of what it was worth. The Cherokees warned the white
+men of savage Indians who came hunting from the west and the north.
+They told Henderson he might have trouble settling the land.
+
+Boone did not go with Henderson to Sycamore Shoals. He waited near
+Cumberland Gap with thirty men. When Henderson sent word that he had
+bought Kentucky, Boone spoke one word to his men.
+
+"Start!" he said.
+
+The men began to make the famous Wilderness Road that was to lead to
+Kentucky. Later it would be traveled by settlers with their horses,
+wagons, and cattle. Just now Boone's men chose the shortest and easiest
+way over the mountains and through the woods. They followed Indian
+trails and buffalo paths. They swung their axes. They cut down trees.
+They crossed streams. Daniel Boone worked as hard as anyone. And all
+the time he kept a sharp lookout for unfriendly Indians.
+
+The men did not stop until they reached the banks of the Kentucky
+River. Here they began to build a fort. Boone knew that the Shawnees
+and other Indian tribes would not admit that Henderson had bought
+Kentucky.
+
+When Henderson came to the settlement, he said, "We will call this
+place Boonesborough. It is right to name it for the man who led us
+here."
+
+Boone went back to get his family. Some of his children had grown up
+and married before the Boones set out for Kentucky the first time.
+Thirteen-year-old Jemima was his last unmarried daughter. She and her
+mother were the first white women to stand on the bank of the Kentucky
+River.
+
+
+
+
+The Rescue
+
+
+One Sunday afternoon, Jemima and two other girls went for a canoe ride
+on the Kentucky River at Boonesborough. They knew they should not go
+out of sight of the fort, but they went anyway. They paddled down the
+river and around the bend. The current drew them in to the opposite
+bank.
+
+"Let's land and pick some of those bright-colored flowers," one of the
+girls suggested.
+
+Jemima shook her head. "I'm afraid of the Indians," she said. "Those
+Shawnees are mean."
+
+By now the canoe had drifted near the shore. The girl at the bow shoved
+with her paddle. The boat would not move. It was stuck fast in the mud.
+
+All at once five Indians leaped from the underbrush. They grabbed the
+screaming girls and carried them into the forest. They planned to take
+them north to the Indian towns and keep them there as slaves.
+
+Back at the fort no one missed the girls until after dark. Then someone
+saw that the canoe was gone. When Daniel Boone heard this, he picked up
+his gun and rushed toward the river. He did not stop to put on his
+shoes.
+
+He felt sure that Indians had taken Jemima and her friends away.
+
+Three young men who loved the girls very much went with Boone. The men
+took another canoe and began to paddle down the river. They could not
+go far in the dark. Before long, they had to stop and wait for morning.
+
+When the sun came up, Boone found the girls' trail. He thought the
+Indians were taking them toward the Ohio River. He knew he must catch
+them before they crossed it and went to the Indian towns in the north.
+
+The white men left their canoe. They traveled all day through the deep
+woods. Then they made camp and waited for the long night to end. At
+daylight they started out again.
+
+Boone took short cuts through the woods, but he always found the trail.
+His sharp eyes saw what the girls had left for him to see. One had dug
+her heels into the soft mud. Another had left bits of her dress here
+and there.
+
+Boone led the young men straight through the heart of the forest to
+Jemima and her friends. About noon the men caught sight of the girls.
+The Indians had stopped with them for their noon meal. The white men
+crept up. Bang! Bang! Bang! went their guns.
+
+"It's Father!" Jemima cried.
+
+"Fall flat on your faces, girls!" Daniel Boone shouted.
+
+The white men ran toward the Indians. They shot their guns as they ran.
+
+The Indians were taken by surprise. One Indian threw his tomahawk. It
+almost hit the girls. Two Indians were shot. The others ran away.
+
+The men took the three girls back to Boonesborough. Later the three
+girls married the three young men.
+
+
+
+
+The Fort Is Saved
+
+
+Boone became known far and wide as the greatest man in the Kentucky
+Wilderness. One winter, about a year after he had saved the girls from
+the Indians, he went with some other men to a place where there were
+salt springs. These were called salt licks because the wild animals
+liked to lick the salt. The men planned to camp there several weeks.
+They would boil the water in big kettles until there was only salt
+left. Then they would take the salt back to the people at
+Boonesborough.
+
+One day Boone went out hunting alone. Suddenly he was surprised by
+Indians. They were a war party led by Chief Blackfish. They were on
+their way to Boonesborough. These Shawnee Indians came from north of
+Kentucky. They felt that Henderson had no right to claim their hunting
+grounds. Certainly _they_ had not sold Kentucky to him. They might not
+have been so warlike if the American Revolution had not started. The
+British were making friends with the Indians everywhere and helping
+them fight the settlers.
+
+Boone knew how the Shawnees felt about having to share their hunting
+ground with the white men. But he knew also that he must find a way to
+save the fort.
+
+"Don't go to Boonesborough now," he told the Indians. "You don't have a
+big enough war party. Boonesborough is far too strong for you to
+capture."
+
+This was not true at all. There were not many men at the fort. But
+Daniel hoped to stall off the Shawnees until Boonesborough had time to
+send for help.
+
+"Wait until spring," he went on. "Then you won't have to fight. The
+people will come willingly. I will bring them north to you. Right now
+it is too cold for the women and the children to travel. But in the
+spring they will come with you."
+
+Chief Blackfish was delighted to find that Boone was so friendly. He
+had admired Boone for a long time. He did not know that Boone was
+trying hard to fool him.
+
+"What about your men?" Chief Blackfish asked.
+
+Boone thought quickly. He knew the Indians had seen the men at the salt
+licks.
+
+"I will lead you to my men," he told Chief Blackfish, "if you will
+promise not to kill them."
+
+Chief Blackfish promised. Boone took the Indians to his men.
+
+"We are in great danger," he whispered to them. "We must go north with
+the Indians, or they will kill us. The fort is in danger too. But
+perhaps we can escape and warn our families."
+
+At the end of the long journey the Indians and their prisoners reached
+the Shawnee towns in the north. There, Chief Blackfish told Boone that
+he wanted him for a son. He made Boone go through a long adoption
+ceremony and gave him the name of Big Turtle.
+
+Boone liked Chief Blackfish, but he did not really want to be a
+Shawnee. He pretended to be pleased about becoming the Chief's son, but
+he only pretended.
+
+One day the Indians went hunting. While they were gone, Boone ran away
+and started for Boonesborough.
+
+The Indians followed him, but he was too clever for them. They lost his
+trail. In four days he traveled one hundred and sixty miles.
+
+Finally he reached Boonesborough.
+
+"The Indians are on the way! Get ready to fight!" he told the people.
+
+Soon Chief Blackfish came with over four hundred Shawnees. He called
+Boone to come outside the fort. Daniel Boone went out bravely.
+
+"Why did you run away?" Chief Blackfish asked Boone.
+
+"I wanted to see my wife and my children," Boone answered.
+
+"You have seen them," the Chief replied. "Now come back with me. You
+and all your people."
+
+"Give me a little time to think it over," Boone said.
+
+He hoped that help would come from other forts. He waited and waited,
+but no help came.
+
+"We shall defend the fort as long as a man is living," Boone told the
+people.
+
+The fight began. The Indians fired at the fort. The white men fired
+back. Everyone worked hard. The women and the children loaded guns and
+carried food to the men. The white men were outnumbered, but the
+Indians did not know this.
+
+The men did not stop fighting for eight days and eight nights. By then
+everyone was very tired. The Indians had shot flaming torches, and the
+roofs of the cabins were on fire. Not a drop of water was left in the
+fort.
+
+"Look! Look!" someone shouted.
+
+The sky had been dark all day. Now it was starting to rain. It rained
+and it poured. The rain came down and put out the fires. It filled the
+tubs and pails with water to drink. Everyone felt hopeful again.
+
+When morning came, no Indians were in sight. Every single one of them
+was gone. They had disappeared into the forest. The fort was saved.
+
+
+
+
+Daniel Boone's Reward
+
+
+The Indian raids kept on all over Kentucky. When the American
+Revolution ended, the British stopped helping the Indians fight the
+settlers. Some tribes kept on fighting on their own, but finally the
+settlers defeated the Indians and forced them to sign a treaty. Things
+slowly became more peaceful.
+
+More and more settlers came west. They came over the Wilderness Road
+that Boone and his men had made. They came down the Ohio River in big
+flatboats. These settlers killed game in the forest. They cleared land,
+grew crops, built houses, and started towns.
+
+Daniel Boone was fifty years old now. One day he discovered that he did
+not own any of the land he had thought was his.
+
+"This does not seem right," he said. "I was one of the first to come to
+Kentucky. My life was hard. I risked it for the people many times."
+
+It was not right, but it was true. Boone had been too busy hunting and
+trapping to put his claims on paper.
+
+Boone lost almost all his land. He tried to farm, but he was not a good
+farmer. He tried to keep a store, but his heart was not in it. His good
+wife, Rebecca, often took his place in the store, while Daniel worked
+as a guide showing new settlers the way down the Ohio River. And he
+held some jobs with the new government.
+
+One day hunters told Daniel Boone about land farther west near the
+great Mississippi River. "It's wild and free," they said. "There are
+bear and deer. There are herds of buffalo. It's the kind of land
+Kentucky used to be."
+
+"That's the place for me," Boone said. "It's too crowded here. The
+other day I looked out of the window and saw the smoke of another man's
+cabin. I'll go west. I want elbow room."
+
+And besides elbow room, he wanted land. He had always dreamed about
+owning a lot of land.
+
+He was disappointed about losing his claims in Kentucky.
+
+So Boone and his family went west. The land where they settled belonged
+to Spain. Later it was traded to the French and then bought by America.
+It is the land we now call Missouri.
+
+The Spaniards were proud to have Daniel Boone live among them. They
+gave him all the land he wanted. He hunted and trapped in the new
+country as he had in the old. He sold the furs and skins for a good
+price.
+
+Then Boone made a trip back to Kentucky. He called together all the
+people he had once known.
+
+"I owed money to you when I left here," he said. "I want to pay my
+debts."
+
+When he returned to his family in Missouri, Boone was a poor man again.
+But he had a smile on his face.
+
+"I am a free man," he said. "I owe nothing to any man. That makes it
+worth being poor again."
+
+The United States Congress voted to give Boone one thousand acres of
+land. It was a reward for all he had done in exploring and settling the
+West. He hunted and fished until he was very old. He never stopped
+exploring. He was still looking for adventure and elbow room!
+
+But Daniel Boone, traveler, hunter, woodsman, and fighter, will be
+remembered longest as the man who opened the way to Kentucky.
+
+
+                     *      *      *      *      *
+
+
+"Get out of Kentucky and stay out!" the Indians told Daniel Boone. But
+Daniel Boone did not scare easily.
+
+There was the time his daughter was kidnaped by the Indians. Boone
+tracked the kidnapers through the forest and rescued her.
+
+There was the time Boone was captured by the Shawnees. He escaped in
+time to warn the people of Boonesborough: "The Indians are coming! Get
+ready to fight!"
+
+Boone's life was full of adventure. And this book tells his story.
+
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