Boone's disappointment upon not finding his wife--Strengthening of Boonesborough--Indian hostilities--Attack of Boonesborough--gallant defence--Boone returns to North Carolina--Occurrences during his absence--Boone returns--Goes to the Blue Licks for salt--Death of the younger Boone--Daniel Boone escapes--Kentucky divided into three counties--Hard winter of 1781--Indian hostilities--Attack on Bryant's station--Villany of Simon Girty 91 CHAPTER VII. Disastrous defeat at the Blue Licks--General Clarke's campaign--Efforts to restore peace--Sullenness of the Indians--They continue their massacres--Stratagems on the Ohio--Bold defence of Captain Hubbil--Halmar's campaign--St. Clair's defeat--Debate in Congress--General Wayne takes command--Defeats the Indians--Lays waste their country--Concludes a treaty of peace with the savages in August, 1795 109 CHAPTER VIII. Happiness of the settlers--Boone roams through the wilderness--Civilization sickens him--He loses his lands--Moves to the Kanhawa--Disappointed in finding game--Moves to Missouri--Purchase of Missouri from the French--Anecdote related by Mr. Audubon--Boone loses his wife--His sorrow--War with England--His old age--His habits--He dies in 1818. 127 APPENDIX. The adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, formerly a hunter; containing a narrative of the wars of Kentucky, as given by himself. 143 THE ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONE. CHAPTER I. Some men choose to live in crowded cities;--others are pleased with the peaceful quiet of a country farm; while some love to roam through wild forests, and make their homes in the wilderness. The man of whom I shall now speak, was one of this last class. Perhaps you never heard of DANIEL BOONE, the Kentucky rifleman. If not, then I have a strange and interesting story to tell you. If, when a child was born, we knew that he was to become a remarkable man, the time and place of his birth would, perhaps, be always remembered. But as this can not be known, great mistakes are often made on these points. As to the time when Daniel Boone was born, there is no difficulty; but people have fallen into many blunders about the place. Some have said that he was born in England, before his parents left that country; others that he came into this world during the passage of his parents across the Atlantic. One has told us that he was born in Virginia; another in Maryland; while many have stated that he was a native of North Carolina. These are all mistakes. Daniel Boone was born in the year 1746, in Bucks county, in the state of Pennsylvania.