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Table of Contents

Women and Men on the Overland Trail

Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie

Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner:

The Significance of the Frontier in
American History and Other Essays

AHC:	Daniel Boone Papers, Archibald Henderson Collection, University of North Carolina
BBF:	Boone Biographical File, Kentucky Historical Society (KHS), Frankfort
DB:	Daniel Boone
DBB:	Daniel Boone Bryan
DBC:	Lyman Copeland Draper (LCD) interview with Delinda Boone Craig, 1866
DC:	Durrett Collection, University of Chicago
DHDW:	Documentary History of Dunmores War, 1774 , ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites (RGT) and Louise Phelps Kellogg (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1905)
DM:	Draper Manuscripts, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison
DT:	Westward into Kentucky: The Narrative of Daniel Trabue , ed. Chester Raymond Young (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981)
ELC:	Elizabeth L. Cushow
FAUO:	Frontier Advance on the Upper Ohio, 1778-1779 , ed.
Louise Phelps Kellogg (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1916)
FC:	Filson Club, Louisville, Ky.
FCHQ:	Filson Club History Quarterly
FW:	Felix Walker, Narrative of His Trip with Boone from Long Island to Boonesborough in March, 1775 [written in 1824], in George W. Ranck, Boonesborough (Louisville, Ky.: Filson Club, 1901)
IB:	LCD interview with Isaiah Boone, 1846
JC:	John Dabney Shane (JDS) interview with Josiah Collins, c. 1840s
JDS:	John Dabney Shane
JG:	JDS interview with John Gass, c. 1840s
JJ:	LCD interview with Joseph Jackson, 1844
JW:	John Walton, John Filson of Kentucke (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1956)
KHS:	Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort
LCD:	Lyman Copeland Draper
LIFE:	LCD, The Life of Boone, MS
MB:	LCD interview with Moses Boone, 1846
MHS:	Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis
NH:	JDS interview with Nathaniel Hart, Jr., c. 1843-44
NOB:	LCD interview with Nathan and Olive Boone, 1851
PH:	Narrative of Peter Houston, MS, c. 1830s
RBL:	Rebecca Boone Lamond
RCD:	Randolph C. Downes, Council Fires on the Upper Ohio: A Narrative of Indian Affairs in the Upper Ohio Valley Until 1795 (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1940)
RGT:	Reuben Gold Thwaites
RH:	Richard Henderson, Journal, 1775, in Ranck, Boonesborough
RKHS:	Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
SH:	Stephen Hempstead
ST:	Shawnese Traditions: C. C. Trowbridges Account, ed. Vernon Kinietz and Erminie W. Voegelin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1939)

Introduction

He acted with wisdom: LCD interview with John and Sarah Kenton McCord, 1851, DM 5S150.

Part One

When I visited Kentucke: John Filson, The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke (Wilmington, Del.: James Adams, 1784). Available in numerous modern editions; further quotations are uncited throughout the book.

Exaggerated and sophomorical: Timothy Flint, Indian Wars of the West (1833), quoted in James K. Folsons intro. to Flint, Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone (New Haven: College and University Press, 1967), 14-16.

Minor value: RGT, Daniel Boone (New York: D. Appleton, 1902), 199.

The silly phrases: William Carlos Williams, In The American Grain (Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1925), 133.

None of Boones: NOB, DM 6S128-29.

Adulterated and tangled: DBB to LCD, October 24, 1843, DM 22C9[6].

The old mans face: Francis Baily, Journal of a Tour in Unsettled Parts of North America in 1796 & 1797, ed. Jack D. L. Holmes (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969), 115-17.

All true!: John A. McClung, Sketches of Western Adventure (1832; Dayton, Ohio: Ellis, Claffin, 1847), 79-80.

Chapter One. Curiosity Is Natural: 1734 to 1755

A ferocious panther: Elijah Bryan, quoted in William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (St. Louis: Bryan, Brand and Company, 1876), 4.

Joined themselves: Gwynedd minutes, DM 1C19. The best source for Boone genealogical data is Ella Hazel Atterbury Spraker, The Boone Family (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Company, 1922).

Cleanness from Other Women: Gwynedd minutes, DM 1C19.

Greatly pet him: NOB, DM 6S281-82.

Belligerence: Rachel D. Griscom to LCD, December 3, 1888, DM 1C24.

To take the smallpox: NOB, DM 6S42-43.

Above all her children: PH, DM 20C84[3].

They are not girls: IB, DM 2B28; NOB, DM 6S43-44; DBC, DM 30C42.

Wishing to gain his point: N. L. Clarke to LCD, May 13, 1886, DM 19C232.

I give up: LCD interview with Enoch Boone, 1858, DM 19C122.

Best nag: IB, DM 19C60-61.

Love for the wilderness: NOB, DM 6S21-23.

Dan would learn to spell: Elijah Bryan, quoted in Bryan and Rose, Pioneer Families of Missouri , 4-5.

Let the girls do the spelling: quoted in William Boone Douglass, The Ancestry and Boyhood of Daniel Boone, Kentucky School Journal 13 (1934) :14.

In Oley sind die Schulen: quoted in John Bakeless, Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness (New York: Morrow, 1939), 10.

A common farmers hand: NOB, DM 6S5, 6S23, 6S90, 6S281;statement of William Sudduth, 1840, DM 12CC96; DBC, DM 30C77.

She can not read: diary of George Soelle, Moravian missionary, September 14, 1771, trans. Adelaide Fries, AHC; for Sarah Morgan Boone, see indenture of sale of farm in Pennsylvania, 1750, DM 25C3; for Jemima Boone Callaway, see the testimony in Morgan Bryan to LCD, May 27, 1855, DM 23C93.

The full and free privileges: quoted in Francis Jennings, The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies from its Beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744 (New York: Norton, 1984), 358.

Pen-and-Ink work: quoted in Jennings, Ambiguous Iroquois Empire, 358.

To defend our fronteers: George Boone, Sr., to Governor of Pennsylvania, March 12, 1728, in Pennsylvania Archives, ist series (Philadelphia: Joseph Severns, 1852), 1:217-18.

Even more particular: quoted in Stephen Aron, The Hunters of Kentucky: Backcountry, Frontier, and Transition Questions (unpublished MS, 1991) :25.

Proud of his Indian-like dress: Joseph Doddridge, Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania (1824), in Samuel Kercheval, A History of the Valley of Virginia, 4th ed. (Strasburg, Va: Shenandoah Publishing, 1925), 251.

Hybrid-Caucasian culture: Alfred Kroeber, quoted in Bruce G. Trigger, ed., Handbook of North American Indians: Northeast (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978), 623.

Half-Indian appearance: quoted in Terry G. Jordan and Matti Kaups, The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethnic and Ecological Interpretation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), 92.

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