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Title: Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman

Author: C. H. Forbes-Lindsay

Illustrator: Frank McKernan

Release date: August 3, 2017 [eBook #55249]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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DANIEL BOONE
BACKWOODSMAN

SECOND EDITION

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

JOHN SMITH
GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER

An interesting work on the life and times of this famous soldier of fortune and American colonist, intended primarily for the young, but of such a character as to appeal to all.

“A good, strong, interest compelling narrative, and a valuable addition to a boy’s library.”—The Sun, New York.

“Historical fiction that appears to show him [Smith] in a clearer and more truthful light than has ever before been shed.”—The Courier-Journal, Louisville.

“The book will be read with great interest by both old and young, for all men love adventures of the Smith type.”—The Republic, St. Louis.

“Should mightily interest every boy who loves his country.”—The Inter-Ocean, Chicago.

With four full-page illustrations in color by
HARRY B. LACHMAN

12 mo. Cloth, $1.50


Daniel Boone
BACKWOODSMAN

BY

C. H. FORBES-LINDSAY

Author of “John Smith, Gentleman Adventurer,” “India:
Past and Present,” “America’s Insular
Possessions,” etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

FRANK McKERNAN

“Who passes for in life and death most lucky,
 Of the great names which in our faces stare
 Is Daniel Boone, backwoodsman of Kentucky.”

—Byron

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PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1909

Copyright, 1908

By J. B. Lippincott Company

Published September, 1908

Electrotyped and printed by J. B. Lippincott Company
The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I The American Backwoodsman 9
II Hardy Goodfellow 24
III The Young Hunter 39
IV The Daring Pioneer 54
V In Fair Kentucky 68
VI Hardy’s First Indian 86
VII The Capture of Boone 101
VIII The Hannibal of the West 116
IX The Victory of Vincennes 131
X A Feat of Strength 145
XI “Big Turtle” 160
XII Diamond Cut Diamond 174
XIII Boonesborough is Besieged 188
XIV Kenton’s Story 202
XV The Young Scout 216
XVI The White Squaw 229
XVII A String of Disasters 243
XVIII “The Bloody Year” 257
XIX Simon Girty, Renegade 270
XX Battle of the Blue Licks 285
XXI An Old Bird 300
XXII The Last Hunt 311

ILLUSTRATIONS

    PAGE
Immediately He Became a Target Frontispiece  
“My Scalp, I Reckon, Young Fellow”   96
Boone was Nearing the Limit of His Endurance   155
His Weapon Whizzed through the Air and Buried Itself in the Skull of the Foremost   296

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