The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-10

when their camp was surrounded by
a band of Shawnees and the hunters
captured. Tho Indians took lheit
years accumulation of skins and then
released the prisoners.
Boone and one co npa1ion, enraSea
at the loss, followed tho Indians for
two days and then, at hight, managed
10 seize five norses Of the Indlens.
III turn they were pursued by rhe
Indians, rccaptured and held captive
for a week. Then they were released.
Boone's companion returned to the
Yadkin. but Boone remained in Ken
lucky. For O. year he was alone.
He had neither horse nor dog. and
was without bread, salt or sugar. He
changed his station frequently. Some
times he had a rude shelter of bark
or made his home in cave, but gen
orally he slept in the thicket. In hs
wanderings he reached the falls of
the Ohio. where the city of Louisville
now is situated.
TrHnsylvania.
When Boone returned to civilization
he learned o. the signing OF the For.
| Stanwix treaty. There was a lot OF
land excitement in Virginia and North
Carolina. Western settlement filled the
| minds of many people He was con-
tent for several years to go each year
for long hunting trip to Kentucky,
but in 1913 he organized a large ex-
I petition to establish a settlement in
Clinch Valley. While the settlers were
on the road g war party of Shawnees
killed five of the members. Among
those slain was Boone's eldest son.
James. This tragedy so affected the
members of the expedition that all re-
turned to Virginia or North Carolina
except Boone and his family. He went
on to Clinch River and built rude
home. The following spring the whole
borderland Of Virginia was aflame
with war.
The Shawnees and Mingos, wrought
| UP to high pitch of excitement by
atrocities committed by frontier ruff
fans, began the conflict which gem
orally Is known as Lord Dunmore.s
| War. Various bands OF surveyors and
land site locators had ventured ia,
into Kentucky. To notify them OF
their danger and guide them back to
the settlements. Boone and another
baclswoodsman We're gagged. In
siXty-one days they Travelled 500 miles
mostly through an unbroken forest
They gathered the various bands
together and so sleilfully piloted thei,
charges that they met with no mishap.
The victory at Point Pleasant prac.
tically ended the war. Boone celebrated
the victory by going on a long hunt
HIS hunt over. Boone found himsel
In sudden demand. Judge Richard Hen
derson, of North Carolina, had pur
chased from the Shawnees vast trac
of land In Kentucky and had organized
the Pennsylvania Company. Boon
was engaged to establish road int,
2 the new territory and lay out a capita
5 for the colony.
With force OF thirty men he bull
V the famous Wilderness Road across
Y the mountains and through the forests
: and on April 6. 1775, on the Kentuck,
: River at Big Lick. he halted his part,
!. and laid out the town of Boonesbor
ough. which was to be the capital o
Transylvania.
There We're three other settlement
) established in the Pennsylvania grant
Harrodsburg, Boiling Springs and 81
Aspath. Hardly did the colonists ar
rive than there was trouble Most o
the pioneers were adventurers and no
home makers, They deserted. Mex
The Colonial Governors OF Virginia an
North Carolina denounced the Transyl
) vanians as land pirates and threatene
all sorts OF punishment. Then,