Heroism of Thomas Higgins and of Mrs. Pursley.--Affairs at Boonesborough.--Continued Alarms.--Need of Salt.--Its Manufacture.--Indian Schemes.--Capture of Boone and twenty-seven men.--Dilemma of the British at Detroit.--Blackfish adopts Colonel Boone.--Adoption Ceremony.--Indian Designs.--Escape of Boone.--Attacks the Savages.--The Fort Threatened. 182 CHAPTER IX. _Victories and Defeats._ Situation of the Fort.--Indian Treachery.--Bombardment.--Boone goes to North Carolina.--New Trials.--Boone Robbed.--He returns to Kentucky.--Massacre of Colonel Rogers.--Adventure of Col. Bowman.--New Attack by the British and Indians.--Retaliatory Measures.--Wonderful Exploit. 209 CHAPTER X. _British Allies._ Death of Squire Boone.--Indian Outrages.--Gerty and McGee.--Battle of Blue Lick.--Death of Isaac Boone.--Colonel Boone's Narrow Escape.--Letter of Daniel Boone.--Determination of General Clarke.--Discouragement of the Savages.--Amusing Anecdote of Daniel Boone. 230 CHAPTER XI. _Kentucky organized as a State._ Peace with England.--Order of a Kentucky Court.--Anecdotes.--Speech of Mr. Dalton.--Reply of Piankashaw.--Renewed Indications of Indian Hostility.--Conventions at Danville.--Kentucky formed into a State.--New Trials for Boone. 249 CHAPTER XII. _Adventures Romantic and Perilous._ The Search for the Horse.--Navigating the Ohio.--Heroism of Mrs. Rowan.--Lawless Gangs.--Exchange of Prisoners.--Boone Revisits the Home of his Childhood.--The Realms beyond the Mississippi.--Habits of the Hunters.--Corn.--Boone's Journey to the West. 271 CHAPTER XIII. _A New Home._ Colonel Boone welcomed by the Spanish Authorities.--Boone's Narrative to Audubon.--The Midnight Attack.--Pursuit of the Savages.--Sickness in the Wilderness.--Honesty of Colonel Boone.--Payment of his Debts.--Loss of all his Property. 292 CHAPTER XIV. _Conclusion._ Colonel Boone Appeals to Congress.--Complimentary Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky.--Death of Mrs. Boone.--Catholic Liberality.--Itinerant Preachers.--Grant by Congress to Colonel Boone.--The Evening of his Days.--Personal Appearance.--Death and Burial.--Transference of the Remains of Mr. and Mrs. Boone to Frankfort, Kentucky. 320 CHAPTER I. _The Discovery and early Settlement of America._ Discovery of the New World.--Of Florida.--Conquest and cruelties of De Soto.--The wigwam.--Colony at St. Mary.--Sir Walter Raleigh and his Colonies.--Grant of King James.--Settlements in the Virginia.--Adventures of John Smith.--Arrival of Lord Delaware.--Terrible massacres.--Pressures of Colonists to the West.--Doherty Trade with Indians.--Attempted Colony on the Tennessee.--Daniel Boone.