hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 199 results in 50 document sections:

1 2 3 4 5
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kentucky, (search)
and gave glowing accounts of the fertile country he had left. He persuaded Daniel Boone and four others to go with him to explore it. Boone had become a great hunteBoone had become a great hunter and expert in woodcraft. They reached the headwaters of the Kentucky, and, from lofty hills, beheld a vision of a magnificent valley, covered with forests, stretcndians—some of the tribes who roamed over Kentucky as a common hunting-ground. Boone was made a prisoner, but escaped. He determined to settle in the beautiful cought his family there, and planted the first permanent settlement in Kentucky. Mrs. Boone and her daughters were the first white women who ever stood on the banks of tiver. The precarious tenure by which places that were settled in Kentucky by Boone and others were held, while the land was subjected to bloody incursions by IndiCivil War days. The people were strongly attached to the Union, but its Daniel Boone's first sight of Kentucky. governor (Beriah Magoffin) and leading politician
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Norton, Frank Henry 1836- (search)
Norton, Frank Henry 1836- Journalist; born in Hingham, Mass., March 20, 1836; assistant librarian in the Astor Library, 1855; chief librarian of the Brooklyn Library in 1866; subsequently engaged in journalism in New York City. Among his publications are Historical register of the Centennial Exhibition, 1876; the Paris Exposition, 1878; Life of Gen. W. S. Hancock; Life of Alexander H. Stephens; Daniel Boone, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peck, John Mason 1789-1858 (search)
Peck, John Mason 1789-1858 Clergyman; born in Litchfield, Conn., Oct. 31, 1789; was ordained in the Baptist Church in 1813; was an itinerant preacher in the West in 1817-26; settled in Rock Spring, Ill., in 1826. His publications include A guide for emigrants; Gazetteer of Illinois; New guide for emigrants to the West; Father Clark, or the pioneer preacher; and Life of Daniel Boone (in Sparke's American biography). He died in Rock Spring, Ill., March 15, 1858.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ct of Congress approved......March 3, 1820 Congress authorizes the people of Missouri to form a State government......March 6, 1820 Duel between Com. Stephen Decatur and Com. James Barron at Bladensburg, Md.......March 22, 1820 Congress abolishes the sale of public lands on credit......April 24, 1820 Congress organizes the first committee on agriculture......May 3, 1820 Congress authorizes a loan of $3,000,000......May 15, 1820 First session adjourns......May 15, 1820 Daniel Boone dies at Charrette, Mo., aged eighty-five......Sept. 26, 1820 Spain ratifies her treaty with the United States, whereby she cedes Florida......Oct. 20, 1820 Second session convenes......Nov. 13, 1820 Henry Clay resigns the speakership; John W. Taylor of New York elected on the twenty-second ballot by a majority of one......Nov. 14, 1820 Presidential election held. Nov. 14, 1820 Missouri, in her constitution, requires her legislature to prohibit free colored persons from set
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
ory south of the Ohio River, including most of Kentucky......Nov. 5, 1768 Daniel Boone reaches the Red River with five hunters from North Carolina......June 7, 176h of Limestone Creek, now Maysville, and plant a corn crop......May, 1775 Daniel Boone and others bring their wives and children into Kentucky......September, 1775, April 15, fails; a second unsuccessful attempt by 200......July 4, 1777 Daniel Boone, captured by the Indians, with twenty-seven others, while making salt at the people of Kentucky for the navigation of the Mississippi......July, 1795 Daniel Boone moves to the west of the Mississippi River......1795 Lexington public lib the penitentiary for British prisoners......Dec. 8, 1813 Congress grants Daniel Boone 1,000 acres in upper Louisiana......Feb. 10, 1814 Treaty of Ghent signed;nd Clay's effects shipped to Cincinnati......Aug. 18. 1845 Reinterment of Daniel Boone and wife in the State cemetery at Frankfort......Sept. 13, 1845 Colony fo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
ndant-general of the post of St. Louis......1788 Zenon Trudeau succeeds Perez......1793 Daniel Boone, of Kentucky, moves to what is now St. Charles county......1795 Trudeau succeeded by Charles Dehault Delassus de Delusiere......1798 Delassus appoints Daniel Boone commandant or syndic of the Femme Osage district......1800 Maj. Amos Stoddard, agent of France for receiving upper Louiseen Walnut and Elm streets, St. Louis......Dec. 7, 1812 United States Congress confirms to Daniel Boone 833 acres of land in the Femme Osage district......Feb. 10, 1814 Capt. James Callaway, witts in the Missouri Hotel at St. Louis and organizes a State government......Sept. 19, 1820 Daniel Boone dies at Femme Osage......Sept. 26, 1820 Missouri admitted into the Union with conditions tia, laid......July 4, 1840 Suicide of Gov. Thomas Reynolds......Feb. 9, 1844 Remains of Daniel Boone and his wife are removed to Frankfort, Ky.......July 17, 1845 The first regiment of Missou
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tennessee, (search)
he Ohio......1766 By treaty at Fort Stanwix the Six Nations cede the country north and east of the Tennessee......Nov. 5, 1768 Capt. William Bean settles on Boone Creek, near Watauga......1769 Company formed to hunt and explore middle Tennessee, with camp at Price's Meadows, Wayne county......1769 Written association formed for the government of the Watauga settlers, and five commissioners appointed as a governing court......1772 Col. Richard Henderson, Nathaniel Hart, and Daniel Boone purchase from the Indians a tract of country between the Kentucky and Cumberland rivers, which they call Transylvania......March 17, 1775 Watauga purchased from the Indians, and deed of conveyance to Charles Robertson executed......March 19, 1775 Watauga settlers march against advancing Cherokees, and disperse them in a battle near Long Island Fort......July 20, 1776 Cherokees under old Abraham attack the fort at Watauga, but are repulsed......July 21, 1776 Forces under Col. W
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1: travellers and observers, 1763-1846 (search)
an travellers, we may say that their motives were as various as their callings and station, and ran from the lust of a Daniel Boone for new solitudes, through the desire to promote the fur trade or immigration, and through semi-scientific or scientifsity, to the impulses of the literary artist or to the religious aims of the missionary. George Rogers Clark, Logan, and Boone were pioneers. Fearon, Darby, and Faux came to study conditions for emigrants. Bernard, Tyrone Power, and Fanny Kemble eWitt Clinton, who explored the route of the future Erie Canal, a statesman. Many others had eyes trained in surveying. Boone was a surveyor, like Washington himself-and Washington may be classed with the observers and diarists. Buckingham, a traCave. This, after its discovery by Hutchins in 1809, took its place in the attractions of Kentucky with the furry cap of Boone. The Indians, of course, supplied an unfailing interest. Their habits, as in Bartram, speculation concerning their orig
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: fiction II--contemporaries of Cooper. (search)
1837), an exciting tale of border warfare in 1782, is notable for its attempt to correct Cooper's heroic drawing of the Indian and for its presentation of a type often spoken of in frontier annals, the white man who, crazed by Indian atrocities, gave his whole life to a career of ruthless vengeance. For the play founded on this novel, see Book II, Chap. II. The great romance of Kentucky, however, while perpetuated by no single novel or novelist, centres round the life and character of Daniel Boone, who became, by the somewhat capricious choice of tradition, a folk hero, standing among other pioneers as Leather-Stocking stands among native characters of fiction. A similar, though smaller, fame belongs to David Crockett of Tennessee, who comes somewhat closer to literature by the fact of having written an Autobiography (1834). The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fic
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
6 Bird, Robert Montgomery, 221-222, 224, 225, 231, 308, 309, 311, 319 Blackmore, Sir, Richard, 158, 159, 161 Blackwood's magazine, 206, 208, 292 Blair, James, 263, 271 Blake, William, 358 Blanche of Brandywine, 226 Bland, Edward, 5, 6, 10 Bleecker, Mrs., Ann Eliza, 179 Blessington, Lady, 242 Blockheads, the, 217 Blumenbach, J. F., 186 Body of liberties, 39 Boehme, Jacob, 188 Bohn, Henry, 252 Boker, George Henry, 222-223, 224, 230 Bonneville, Captain, 210 Boone, Daniel, 189, 190, 319 Booth (the elder), 224 Border Beagles, 317 Borrow, George, 321 Bose, 267 Boston, 175 Boston gazette, the, 93, 119, 129, 137 Boswell, 70 Boucher, Jonathan, 138-139 Boucicault, Dion, 231, 232 Bourne, Edward G., 192, 193 Boyle, Robert, 81 Bracebridge Hall, 239, 249, 256, 311 Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 182, 286-287 Brackenridge, H. M., 210 Bradbury, John, 206, 210 Braddock, General, 96 Bradford, Andrew,I15, I 6, 121 Bradford, Gov., Wi
1 2 3 4 5