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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter XLI (search)
n a drove, and round the salt-licks their numbers were amazing. Boone's Autobiography. The summer in which for the first time, a party of white men enjoyed the brilliancy of nature near, and in the valley of the Elkhorn, passed away in the oc- Chap. XLI.} cupations of exploring parties and the chase. But one by one, Boone's companions dropped off, till he was left alone with John Stewart. They jointly found unceasing delight in the wonders of the forest, till, one evening near Kentucky River, they were taken prisoners by a band of Indians, wanderers like themselves. They escaped; and were joined by Boone's brother; so that when Stewart was soon after killed by savages, the first victim among the hecatombs of white men, slain by them in their desperate battling for the lovely hunting ground, Butler's History of Kentucky, Second Ed. 19. Boone still had his brother to share with him the dangers and the attractions of the wilderness; the building and occupying the first cott
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 46: (search)
o. 8, of Dec. 1770. confining the Ancient Dominion on the Northwest to the mouth of the Kenawha, while on the South it extended only to within six miles of the Holston River. Superintendent Stuart to Lord Botetourt, Lochaber, 25 Oct. 1770. The Cherokees would willingly have ceded more land; and when in the following year the line was run by Donelson for Virginia, their Chief consented that it should cross from the Holston to the Louisa, Lord Dunmore to Hillsborough, March, 1770. or Kentucky River, and follow it to the Ohio. But the change was disapproved in England, so that the great body of the West, unencumbered by valid titles, was happily reserved for the self-directed emigrant. The people of Virginia and others were exploring and marking all the richest lands, not only on the Redstone and other waters of the Monongahela, but along the Ohio, as low as the little Kenawha; Washington's Diary, in Writings, II. 531. Washington, II. 531. and with each year were getting fu