The First White Man of the West: Or, The Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l Boone, the First Settler of KentuckyE. Morgan, 1850 - 252 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adventurers animal ash tree attack Benjamin Logan Blue Licks body Boone's Boonesborough brother Bryant's station buffaloes cabin camp cane-brakes Captain captives character Chillicothe Clinch river Colonel Boone command commenced companion Cumberland river danger Daniel Boone dead deer defence dians direction distance enemy escape expedition father fell Finley fire foot forest fortunate friends garrison Girty Harrodsburgh heart horse hundred hunter hunting imagined immigrants Indians inhabitants James Harrod Kentucky Kentucky river killed land limestone Logan ment miles mode morning mountains nature night North Carolina Ohio palisades panther party of Indians prisoners pursued pursuit reached renegado retreat rifle river savages scalps seen settled settlement settlers shot Simon Girty soil soon spirit spring supply tion tomahawk took trail tree tribe tucky vicinity warriors western whole wild wild turkeys wilderness women woods woodsman wounded Yadkin yell young Boone
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 34 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Seite 237 - ... appearance of this wanderer of the western forests approached the gigantic. His chest was broad and prominent; his muscular powers displayed themselves in every limb; his countenance gave indication of his great courage, enterprise, and perseverance; and when he spoke, the very motion of his lips brought the impression that whatever he uttered could not be otherwise than strictly true.
Seite 237 - Colonel Boone, happened to spend a night with me under the same roof, more than twenty years ago. We had returned from a shooting excursion, in the course of which his extraordinary skill in the management of the rifle had been fully displayed. On retiring to the room appropriated to that remarkable individual and myself for the night, I...
Seite 238 - on a hunting expedition on the banks of the Green river, when the lower parts of this (Kentucky,) were still in the hands of nature, and none but the sons of the soil were looked upon as its lawful proprietors. We Virginians had for some time been waging a war of intrusion upon them, and I, amongst the rest, rambled through the woods, in pursuit of their race, as I now would follow the tracks of any ravenous animal. The Indians outwitted me one dark night, and I was as unexpectedly as suddenly made...
Seite 238 - I undressed, whilst he merely took off his hunting shirt, and arranged a few folds of blankets on the floor, choosing rather to lie there, as he observed, than on the softest bed. When we had both disposed of ourselves, each after his own fashion, he related to me the following account of his powers of memory, which I lay before you, kind reader, in his own words, hoping that the simplicity of his style may prove interesting to you.
Seite 249 - And what's still stranger left behind a name For which men vainly decimate the throng, Not only famous, but of that good fame Without which glory's but a tavern song — Simple, serene, the antipodes of Shame, Which Hate nor Envy e'er could tinge with wrong; An active hermit, even in age the child Of Nature or the man of Ross run wild.
Seite 242 - Indians, you would not have walked out in any direction for more than a mile without shooting a buck or a bear. There were then thousands of Buffaloes on the hills in Kentucky; the land looked as if it never would become poor; and to hunt in those days was a pleasure indeed.
Seite 242 - At the rising of the sun I was on foot, and, after a good deal of musing, thought that an ash tree then in sight must be the very one on which I had made my mark, I felt as if there could be no doubt of it, and mentioned my thought to Mr. — . 'Well, Colonel...
Seite 249 - Tis true he shrank from men, even of his nation, When they built up unto his darling trees, — He moved some hundred miles off, for a station Where there were fewer houses and more ease ; The inconvenience of...
Seite 242 - if you think so, I hope it may prove true, but we must have some witnesses; do you stay here about, and I will go and bring some of the settlers whom I know.' I agreed. Mr. — trotted off, and I, to pass the time, rambled about to see if a deer was still living in the land. But ah! sir, what a wonderful difference thirty years make in the country!