The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-02-11


wild woods, and at her present adj
vanced age would gladly go to some
new country where civilization has not
yet conquered natures primitive soil
tude.
Mrs. Frazer was born a few months
after her grandfather, Daniel Boone.
died, but she has a most complete ira
ditional history of the old hunter and
could today write a thrilling sketch of
the hero of the dark and bloody
ground" for her powers Of description
are excellent. An older brother was
the especial pet of the noted hunter in
his last days, and Mrs. Frazer heard
from this member Of the family many
stories of Daniel Boone.
Long after the Kentucky woods had
become too tame for the restless spirit
of Boone, and he had sought a home
farther west on the Missouri river, the
old man continued to hunt deer and
other big game. When he was too fee
BILE to go far from his pioneer cabin the
hunter would take his little grandson,
Mrs. Frazer's brother, on his back and
wander around e the homestead in
search of deer. The child was de-
lighted with those hunts, and felt that
the venison thus secured was as much
his trophy as the old grandtather's.
Boone could see to shoot to the last,
and retained all Of his faculties to the
hour of death.
Mrs. Frazer says that her grand
and tells a singular circumstance in
connection with the hunters career in
Kentucky which led the pioneer to at
tach much Importance to The sugges-
lions that came to him in sleep. In
one of his explorations in the wilder
ion. They had separated one day while
hunting, and at night the Fan did not
return to the place selected In the
morning for their camp. The hunter
supposed at first that his associate had
pursued game too far for his return
that night, or that the mnn had got
lost In the painless forest The next
morning Boone began to liant for the
missing man, and searched the woods
hour after hour without finding M
trace of his friend. Finally, coming to
the conclusion that the msn had been
killed by Indians, or become the prey
of some wild beast. Boone left that part
of the country and went back to the
settlement. But he coulc never en-
tirely give up the thought of finding
some trace of the lost hunter. II
weighed upon his mind with strange
persistence.
Several years after the disappearance
of the hunter, Boone went back to the
woods where he had parted from his
friend. That night while sleeping at
his camp FIRE he dreamed of finding a
human skeleton and a gun IN a big hol-
low tree. The dream was ~ vivid that
when the hunter awoke no still had a
distinct mental picture Of the tree and
its surroundings and believed he could
go to the spot. The hunter lay awake
the rest Of the night thinking about
his strange dream, and as soon as day
light came started out in the direction
his thoughts had taken when asleep.
The woods seemed familiar, as he had
seen them In his dreams, and the hunt
er walked on briskly. guided by the i'm
preston the sleeping vision had left.
He found the big hollow tree just as
he had seen it in his sleep. and looking
into the large cavity near the ground
discovered a complete human skeleton
and an old rusty fiintlock rife. The
fulfliment of the dream was SO perfect
that the hunter ALWAYS believed that