The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-28

Colonel Galloway, and a posse of friends followed
the trail, for the girls had gathered tWigs from
the trees and dropped them at intervals, but the
Indians discovering the ruse, forbade them, and
then the girls tore bits from their clothing as
they marched, and these aided their rescuers. They
we're rescued that night, and their captors slain
by Boone and his men. Betsy Galloway after
wards married Samuel Henderson, one of the
rescuers, and theirs was the first marriage IN
Kentucky. Hardly was this celebration over when
Boone was made prisoner by the Indians. They
tried to make him lead an assault on Boonesbo~
rough, but only as a last resort he promised them
that if they would return to their haunts and wait
until spring provided they would bring horses to
take the women and children to Governor Hamil-
ton of Canada who he declared was paying big
prices for live American prisoners. The old
Chief Black Fish, was delighted, and adopted
Daniel Boone as his son, and bestowed on him the
beautiful name of big Turtle" Boone<was at
home in the Chiefs Wigwam, and proved a good,
smart, ingenious son, but one day he gave them
the slip and fastened back to Boonesborough. He
had been away for about five months, and Mrs.
Boone believed him dead, and having grown weary
of a country that had held only sorrow and mis-
cry for her, Mrs. Boone had returned to North
Carolina with all her family save Jemima, who
had married Flanders Galloway.
Meanwhile Black Fish was enraged at the I'M
flial conduct of his son, Big Turtle" and hasten
ed to find him, which he did in his old haunts in
Boonesborough. A fight followed, and Boone was
victorious, so Black Fish left / ndisgust, for his
adopted son, and never returned. Boone came to
North Carolina, found his family mourning him
as dead, but living comfortably under the wise
and prudent management of his wife. AS soon
as things could be arranged, they all left a sec
ond time for Kentucky, accompanied by many
settlers, heavily laden pack mules, and many cat
tie. Had Daniel Boone been as prudent in bust
ness affairs as his wife his lands alone would have
made him wealthy, but he neglected the tithes
and lost them all. This, of course, made him wish
to roam the more, and for a long time we catch
~glimpses of him in different places, while his
brave yet faithful wife, undaunfed BY fa1Tdre,
home loving and with true womanly instinct, try
ing to make a home amid adverse conditions which
had proven nothing certain but failure IS a wo-
manhood to challenge the admiration of woman
kind. She ran a tavern at Maysville which be-
came famous among the pioneers for comfort
and good cheer, but her husbands generosity to
impecuneous friends kept it from paying, and it
was abandoned. They settled near Charleston,
and Boone became a member of the Legislature.
but it was not prosperity that he wanted, but
room to roam and hunt, so all their goods were
packed in a fat-boat and they foated down
the Ohio River and drifted into the
green glades of Missouri. How unhappy had
been her life we women may guess, but only once
is it recorded that she murmured, and who won
ders that she declared mot for the empire Of the
world would she live over again those sorrowful
days in Kentucky" They finally settled about
twenty-five miles from St. Louis in what is now
St. Charles County. Boone built a nice cabin;
he became a judge of the district, which Office
ne neld until ne once more became a citizen OF
the United States through the Louisiana purchase.
They were prominent people in the estimation of
their neighbors. The house of the august syndic
was not a palace, but something more than a tenn
porary shelter, and this fact realized the longing
of that woman's heart, so busy with her house
wifely duties, her garden, flowers, fowls and
grandchildren she found the happiness she bad
not known since leaving her home on the Yadkin.
Rebecca Boone loved to see one son a wealthy
planter, another an officer in the army; her grand
sons growing into promising manhood, one Of
whom won fame as the pioneer of Colorado, the
other still greater renown as the guide and main
stay of the famous Fremont expedition. She