E-text prepared by David Edwards, Melissa McDaniel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 39927-h.htm or 39927-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39927/pg39927-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39927/39927-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/danielboone00thwaiala Transcriber's note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). The author used superscripted numbers to indicate which of several people with the same name are being referred to. The superscript notation has been replaced in the text with a number within curly brackets (e.g., George{1}, George{2}). [Illustration: DANIEL BOONE. From the portrait by Chester Harding made in 1819, when Boone was eighty-five years old. (See pp. 237-239.)] DANIEL BOONE by REUBEN GOLD THWAITES Author of "Father Marquette," "The Colonies, 1492-1750," "Down Historic Waterways," "Afloat on the Ohio," etc.; Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "Chronicles of Border Warfare," "Wisconsin Historical Collections," etc. Illustrated NEW YORK D. Appleton & Company 1902 Copyright, 1902 By D. Appleton and Company Published September, 1902 TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE LYMAN COPELAND DRAPER, LL.D. WHOSE UNPARALLELED COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS FOR WESTERN HISTORY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE WISCONSIN STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY HAS MADE PRACTICABLE THE PREPARATION OF THIS LITTLE BOOK PREFACE