--, Daniel, born, 6; youth, 7-15; training, 10-12; education, 199, 224; moves to Yadkin, 16, 17; explores Yadkin region, 62, 63; in French and Indian War, 21-23; marriage, 25-27, 36; list of children, 43; life on the Yadkin, 17-20, 28-36; flees to Virginia, 43, 55; returns to Yadkin, 50, 55; visits Florida, 64, 65; early Kentucky explorations, 24, 69, 70; trains James, 63; discontented in North Carolina, 67-69; hunts in Tennessee, 55, 56; in Cherokee War, 50, 55, 56; carves name on trees, 56; captures criminals, 62; opinion of Indians, 52, 59; piloted by Finley, 218, 241; crosses Cumberland Gap, ix, 89, 200, 218; long hunt in Kentucky, 72-84, 86, 94-97, 100, 224; starts for Kentucky, 101-103; on Clinch, 103; in Dunmore's War, 105-112; pioneer for Transylvania Company, 114-117; settles Boonesborough, 117-119, 124, 125; defends Boonesborough, 137, 138, 141, 142; capture of daughter, 134-136; captured by Shawnese, 146-158; returns to Kentucky, 174-178; hunts for settlers, 176; robbed of money, 176, 177; militia leader, 112, 134, 180, 212, 213; Indian expeditions, 181, 182, 187-189; pilot for immigrants, 198, 211, 226; leaves Boonesborough, 180; justice of peace, 143; surveyor, 120, 121, 129, 181, 193, 198, 208, 209, 211, 212; member of legislature, 182, 183, 215; revisits Pennsylvania, 211, 212; loses Kentucky lands, 208-210, 219; at Maysville, 201, 202, 207-210; river trader, 201, 202; life on Kanawha, 210-222; "autobiography," 153, 169, 199; ships furs to East, 197, 201, 202; moves to Missouri, 205, 219-222; Spanish syndic, 224-227; hunts in Missouri, 220, 229-232; laments growth of settlement, 227, 231; loses Spanish grant, 227, 228; pays debts, 229; old age, 228-241; death and burial, 239, 240; character, vii-ix, 200, 232, 233, 241, 242; religious views, 233, 234; specimen letters, 193-195, 233-235; descriptions of, 109, 110, 212-214, 225, 235-237, 239, 240; not first in Kentucky, 85; Byron's verses, 200; nature of services, 200; extent of fame, 198, 199, 222, 233-235; portraits, 237-239; Draper's proposed biography, ix, x. Boone, Mrs. Daniel, marriage, 25-27, 36; life on Yadkin, 29, 30; flees to Virginia, 43; scorns Florida, 65; in Kentucky, 125, 158, 168, 201; death and burial, 230, 240. --, Daniel Morgan, son of Daniel, 43; in Missouri, 220, 230, 232; in Kansas, 230, 231.
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