=Suggested Readings.= PAUL JONES: Beebe, _Four American Naval Heroes_, 17-68; Abbot, _Blue Jackets of '76_, 83-154; Frothingham, _Sea Fighters_, 226-266; Hart, _Camps and Firesides of the American Revolution_, 285-289; Hart, _How Our Grandfathers Lived_, 217-219; Seawell, _Paul Jones_. JOHN BARRY: Griffin, _Commodore John Barry_, 1-96. THE MEN WHO CROSSED THE MOUNTAINS, DEFEATED THE INDIANS AND BRITISH, AND MADE THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER THE FIRST WESTERN BOUNDARY OF THE UNITED STATES DANIEL BOONE, THE HUNTER AND PIONEER OF KENTUCKY [Sidenote: =Boone born in Pennsylvania=] =105. A Famous Frontier Hero.= Daniel Boone was born in Pennsylvania in 1735. He was only three years younger than Washington. While yet a boy he loved the woods, and often spent days deep in the forest with no companion but his rifle and dog. [Sidenote: =Moved to the Yadkin=] Boone's parents moved to North Carolina, and settled on the Yadkin River. There he married at the early age of twenty, and, pioneer-like, moved farther into the forest, where people were scarcer and game more plentiful. He built a log cabin for his bride, and made a "clearing" for raising corn and vegetables. But his trusty rifle furnished their table with all kinds of wild meat, such as bear, deer, squirrel, and turkey. [Sidenote: =Crossed the mountains in 1760=] In 1760 Boone with a friend crossed the mountains to the Watauga in east Tennessee, on a hunting expedition, where he killed a bear, and cut the date of the event on a beech tree, which still stands on Boone's Creek in east Tennessee. [Illustration: BOONE AND HIS BEAR TREE] [Sidenote: =News from across the Cumberland=] One of Boone's hunter friends came back from a journey across the Cumberland Mountains and told of the beauty of the land beyond--its hills and valleys, its forests and canebrakes, full of game. Boone was anxious to go. Too many people were settling near him. But Kentucky was a dangerous country, even if beautiful. It was called "No-man's-land," because not even Indians lived there, and also the "dark and bloody ground," because the tribes from the north and from the south met there in deadly conflict. [Sidenote: =Boone and companions go to Kentucky=] =106. Boone Goes to the Land of Canebrakes and Blue Grass.= While the people along the seacoast were disputing with the king, Boone and five companions, after climbing over mountains, fording rivers, and making their way through pathless forests, reached Kentucky, the land of salt springs, canebrakes, and blue grass. [Sidenote: =Danger from animals=] They built a log camp and spent several months enjoying the wild life so dear to the hunter. But it was full of danger. Sometimes it was a battle with a father and a mother bear fighting for their little ones. The sneaking panther or the lurking wildcat threatened their lives. Now and then, hundreds of buffaloes came rushing through the canebrakes. [Sidenote: =Danger from Indians ever present=]