...ter the savages killed and scalped two more. Now, wrote Daniel Boone, is the time to keep the country while we are in it. If we give way now, it will ever be the case, and he pressed forward to the Kentucky river . There, on the first day of April, at the distance of about sixty yards from its west bank, near the mouth of Otter Creek, he began a stockade fort; which took the name of Boonesborough. At that ...