Arizona republican., 1908-02-12

wandcreT. He true pioneer,
 and stood at the head of that class of Indian-fghters, game-hunters. forest-feers and backwoods farmers who generation after gen eratou, pushed westward the border of civilization from the Alleghanies the Pacific. As he himself said he was "an instrument ordained of God to set tie the wilderness" Born in Pennsylvania he drifted south into western North Carolina, and tied or what was then the extreme frontier. There he married built log cabin, and hunted. chopped trees and titled the ground like any other frontiers man The Allcghany Mountains still marked a boundary beyond which the settlers dared not go; for west of them lay immense reaches of frowning forest, uninhabited by bands of warke Indians Occasionally venturesOme hunter or trapPer penetrated this immense wilderness, and returned with strange stories of what he had seen and done
 In I76o Boone, excited by these vague and drous tales, determined himself to cross the noun tzins and find out what manner of land it that lay beyond. sWith few chosen companions he set ont making his own trail through the gloomy forest After weeks of wandering he at last emerged into the beautiful and fertile country of Kentucky, for which, in after years, the red and the white strove with such obstinate fury that it grew to be Boone first it, it fair and smiling land of groves and gades and running waters, where tho open forest grew tall and beautiful, and where innumerable herds of game grazed, roaming cease lessy to and fro along the trails they had trodden during countless generations. Kentucky not owned by any Indian tribe and was visited only by wandering war-parties and hunting parties who came from among the savage nations living north of the Ohio south of the Tennessee
 A rowing war-party stumbled upon one of Boone's companions and killed him, and the others then left Boone and journcyed home but his brother 10 join him, and the two spent the winter together Scli-reliant fearless ard possessed Of great bodily strength and hardhood they cared little for the loneliness. The tee1nng myriads of game furnished abundant food; the herds cf shaggy n-ned bison and nobe-antered elk, the bands of deer and the numerous black bear, were all ready for the rife, and they were and easily slain. The wolf and the cougar, too sometimes Tell victims to the prowess of the two hunters.
 At times they slept in hollow trees, or in some bush leanto of their making; at other times, when they feared Indians, they changed their rest ing-place every night, and after making fire would go of mile two in the woods to sleep. Sur rounded by brute and human foes, they owed their lives to their seepIess vigilance, their keen senses, their eagle eyes, and their resolute hearts.
 When the spring came, and the woods white with the dogwood blossoms. and crimsoned with the red-bud, Boone's brother left him. and Daniel remained for three months alone in the wilderness The brother back again with party of hunters; and other parties likewise came in, to wander for months and years through the wilder ness; and they wrought huge havoc among the vast herds of game
 In I77I Boone returned to his ho:1le. Two years later he started to lead party of settlers to the