LIFE AND TIMES OF COLONEL DANIEL BOONE. Title: The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West Author: Edward Sylvester Ellis Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by sp1nd, Charlie Howard, |
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THE LIFE AND TIMES
OF
Col. Daniel Boone,
HUNTER, SOLDIER, AND PIONEER.
WITH
SKETCHES OF SIMON KENTON, LEWIS WETZEL, AND OTHER
LEADERS IN THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST.
"Of all men
Who passes for in life and death most lucky,
Of the great names which in our faces stare,
Is Daniel Boone, backwoodsman of Kentucky.
Who passes for in life and death most lucky,
Of the great names which in our faces stare,
Is Daniel Boone, backwoodsman of Kentucky.
Crime came not near him—she is not the child
Of solitude. Health shrank not from him, for
Her home is in the rarely-trodden wild."
Of solitude. Health shrank not from him, for
Her home is in the rarely-trodden wild."
By EDWARD S. ELLIS,
AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF COLONEL DAVID CROCKETT,"
"NED IN THE BLOCK-HOUSE," "NED IN THE WOODS," ETC.
Publisher's Logo
PHILADELPHIA:
PORTER & COATES.
Copyright, 1884,
BY
PORTER & COATES.