Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America

Contents

ix Contents Preface xiii Chronology xvii 1. Old Boone 1 2. Quakers in Pennsylvania, Settlers in Backcountry North Carolina 3 3. Braddock’s Defeat: How Not to Fight Indians 12 4. A Good Wife 21 5. Long Hunts 28 6. Boone’s First Hunts in Kentucky 39 7. Boone Begins to Open the Wilderness: The First Attempt to Settle Kentucky 54 8. Transylvania, the Wilderness Road, and the Building of Boonesborough 68 9. Dark and Bloody Ground: An Introduction to Kentucky during the Revolutionary War 91 10. The Capture and Rescue of the Girls 104 11. The Shawnees Capture Boone 115 12. Boone among the Shawnees 130 13. The Siege of Boonesborough 145 x contents 14. Indian Raids and the Battle of the Blue Licks 170 15. Whites and Indians 185 16. Trading and Land Speculation: Master of All He Surveyed? 200 17. Living Legend, Shrinking Fortune 216 18. Out to Missouri 226 19. Boone in Missouri 238 20. Last Days 252 21. Life after Death 260 22. Coda 274 Acknowledgments 285 Notes 287 Bibliographical Note 343 Index 357 xi Illustrations frontispiece: Chester Harding, Daniel Boone, oil sketch portrait, 1820 Photographs following page 90 Birthplace of Daniel Boone, photograph c. 1860 Engraving of the Cumberland Gap by H. Fenn Sketch purporting to be of John Floyd Earliest known document written and signed by Boone Sketch of Boonesborough Portrait of Lt. Gov. Henry Hamilton Henry Hamilton’s line drawing of Pacanné, a Miami chief Karl Bodmer, Capture of the Daughters of D. Boone and Callaway by the Indians, 1852 James B. Longacre, line-and-stipple engraving of Simon Kenton Charles Bird King, Payta-kootha, a Shawanoe Warrior Charles Bird King, Kish-Kal-Wa, a Shawanoe Chief following page 184 Matthew Harris Jouett, George Rogers Clark Eighteenth-century surveying instruments xii Illustrations John Filson’s purported self-portrait Title page of John Filson’s The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke (1784) Saint-Mémin, Le Soldat du Chêne, an Osage Chief “Col. Daniel Boon,” stipple engraving by J. O. Lewis Home of Nathan Boone in St. Charles County, Mo., in which Boone died in 1820 Thomas Cole, Daniel Boone at His Cabin at Great Osage Lake, c. 1826 George Caleb Bingham, Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap, 1851–52 Daniel Boone Protects His Family, color lithograph by H. Schile, 1874 Daguerreotype of Lyman C. Draper, c. 1858 Monument at Boone’s tomb in Frankfort Maps Boone’s America and Its Transformation, 1740–1820 xxiv The Backcountry: Northwestern North Carolina and the Cumberland Gap 9 Boone’s Kentucky and Its Neighbors 45 Transylvania Purchase, 1775; Fincastle County Surveys, 1774 72 Boonesborough at the Time of the Siege in 1778 154 The Battle of the Blue Licks 180 Shingled Land Claims in Madison County, Ky. 207 Boone Country in Missouri 241 ...