The Brilliant Victory of Mad Anthony Wayne brings Peace to the Frontier--Boone Loses his Farm--He Removes to Missouri--Made Commandant of the Femme Osage District--Audubon's Account of a Night with Colonel Boone--Hunting in his Old Age--He Loses the Land granted him by the Spanish Government--Petitions Congress for a Confirmation of his Original Claims--The Petition Disregarded 186 CHAPTER XXI. Last Days of Colonel Boone--Reinterment of the Remains of Himself and Wife at Frankfort--Conclusion 201 GENERAL SIMON KENTON. CHAPTER I. Birth of Kenton--Desperate Affray with a Rival--Flees to the Kentucky Wilderness--He and Two Companions attacked by Indians--One is Killed and the Survivors Escape--Rescued, after great Suffering--Kenton spends the Summer alone in the Woods--Serves as a Scout in the Dunmore War--Kenton and Two Friends settle at Upper Blue Lick--Joined by Hendricks, who meets with a Terrible Fate 207 CHAPTER II. Kenton and his Friends Visit Boonesborough--Desperate Encounter with Indians--Proceeds with Two Companions to Reconnoitre an Indian Town on the Little Miami--Captured while Making Off with a Number of Horses--Brutal Treatment--Bound to the Stake and Runs the Gauntlet--Friendship of Simon Girty, the Renegade--Finally Saved by an Indian Trader--Removed to Detroit, and Escapes--Commands a Company in General Clark's Expedition--Receives Good News--Visits Virginia--Death of his Father--Reduced to Poverty--Removes to Urbana, Ohio--Elected Brigadier-General--His Conversion--His Last Days 222 LEWIS WETZEL. Birth of Lewis Wetzel--His Father Killed by Indians, and Himself and Brother carried off Prisoners--Their Remarkable Escape--Murder of an Indian--Serves in Crawford's Expedition--Pursued by Four Indians, and Kills Three--Escape from the Custody of General Harmar--Wetzel's Hunts for Indians--Assists a Relative to Recover his Betrothed from Savages--Old Age and Death 251 LIFE AND TIMES OF COLONEL DANIEL BOONE. CHAPTER I. Birth of Daniel Boone--Fondness for Hunting--An Alarming Absence--A Pedagogue of the Olden Time--Sudden Termination of Young Boone's School Education--Removal to North Carolina--Boone's Marriage--His Children. Daniel Boone was born in Exeter township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on the 11th of February, 1735, so that he was just three years the junior of Washington.