The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-10
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Fort Stanwix (Rome, n. ~, and was
signed in 1853 But for that treaty
and the impetus 1t gave to the move
ment toward Kentucky the world
might never have heard of Daniel
Boone.
About eight miles from where now
is the city of Reading. Pa, Boone was /,
born on November 2, 1884, His parents
were Quakers. His father WAS a
weaver and q blacksmith. Tho boy.
too, became a weaver and a black
smith but from childhood he was a
hunter. He loved the woods and
solitude. He knew animals and their
! habits like naturalist. Before he
was able to handle gun he was so
expert in throwing sapling which
he had fashioned into sort of iavelin
] that he could kill birds or small ani-
mails with ease.
| His First Gun.
When he was twelve years old he
| got his first gun. Thereafter he spent
| most of his time in the woods. Upon
him the family relied for their meat
| supply, and the beaver. deer and other
skins he sent to Philadelphia helped
materially toward the support of his
father's big household. The wife of
| one of his older brothers taught him
the three RS. His spelling was weird.
uut he wrote a good hand, and in the
backwoods, where book learning was
| at a discount, he was considered a
scholar. He learned enough about
! surveying TO pass muster In that
branch of activity. Before he was
/ fully grown the family moved to the
upper fork of the YadIiin River, In
North Carolina. That was great Jour-
ney in those days. the distance being
nearly 500 miles. He found more profit
In the woods than in filling the soil,
and for months at time he was away
hunting beaver, otter, bear, deer,
wolves and wildcats. CARRIED in hunt
ing shirt OF deerslain, with leggins
! and moccasins of the same material.
and with powder horn, bullet pouch.
| scalpng knife and tomahawk, the
world afforded him plenty. The bare
| ground or the bushes furnished him
| a bed. and the sky was his canopy.
! His skill with gun or in throwing a
tomahawk was marvellous. OF Indian
lighting he had enough to satisfy.
The Cherokees, outraged at the en-
croachments OF whites and encouraged
by the French, who deemed the Eng
fish a intruders into lands they had
discovered, made intermittent raids on
the settlers. The Indian, cruel, blood
thirsty and no respecter OF age or sex,
fought like a savage and the whites
| of the border country fought in the
same way. The scalping knife was
used not alone by the Indian. In the
Yadkin Valley Indian scares were M
merous, and at times the settlers com.
bined and carried the war into the
Indian country, destroying the Villages
and crops of their enemies and paying
off old scores. Boone was a leader
in.all these expeditions. He served
too In Lyttleton's campaign against
the Cherokess, which ultimately
brought a short peace. But when
Indian raids stopped in the Yadkin
country a new trouble developed fol
Boone. Settlers came In such nun.
bers that game became scarce. Boone
: needed a wide range .Neighbors he
did not fancy, unless they were four
footed ones. He began to think OF
Kentucky, In the autumn of 17GI
. he and a few companions crossed the
: mountains and hunted in the valleys
: OF the Holston, the Clinch and the
a Big Sandy. They spent year on this
! hunt and had great store of skins