a panther--Wanderings in the woods--Is
sent to school--The school is broken up--Boone returns to
his sports--His father removes to the Yadkin river in
North Carolina--While the farm is improving Daniel is
hunting--The neighborhood begins to be settled--Daniel is
dissatisfied--Settlement of Mr. Bryan--Daniel Boone goes
out upon a fire hunt--Strange adventure--Marries Rebecca
Bryan--Makes a home for himself on the head waters of the
Yadkin--Men begin to crowd upon him--determines to move 13

CHAPTER II.

Early visits to Kentucky--James McBride--Dr. Wacker and
others--John Finlay goes to Kentucky trading with the
Indians--Returns with glowing accounts of the
country--Visits Daniel Boone and spends the winter with
him--Boone is charmed with the stories--They determine in
the spring to go to Kentucky--Meeting at Boone's house in
May--With four companions they start for the
west--Adventures by the way--They reach Finlay's old
station on the Red river--Make their camp--Amuse
themselves in hunting and exploring the country--Beauty
of the country--Abundance of game--Boone and Stewart are
taken by the Indians--Make their escape--Return to their
camp--It is plundered and deserted--Arrival of Squire
Boone--Daniel Boone is rejoiced to hear from his family 26

CHAPTER III.

Hunting party--Stewart is killed by the Indians--narrow
escape of Daniel Boone--The companion of Squire Boone
returns home--The two brothers alone in the
wilderness--Cheerfulness of Daniel Boone--Squire returns
to the Yadkin for ammunition--Daniel lives in the forest
alone--His pleasant wanderings--Singular escape from the
Indians--Encounter with a bear--Looks for the return of
his brother--Disappointment--Is very sad--Squire suddenly
arrives with ammunition and horses--Plans for the
future--Daniel Boone chooses a spot on the Kentucky
river--They return for his family--Sport by the way--They
reach the Yadkin--Try to beat up recruits for
Kentucky--Ridicule of the people--They start with five
families--Forty men join them--Disaster by the way--They
return to Clinch river--Various employments of Boone--He
returns to Kentucky--Builds a fort--Removes his family to
Boonesborough 42

CHAPTER IV.

Comforts of Boonesborough--Arrival of Colonel Calaway and
his daughters--Capt