 | JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. - 1871 - 1164 páginas
...taken from me 40 valuable horses, and abundance of cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights have I spent, separated from the cheerful society of men, scorched...cold, an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness. DANIEL BOONE. Fayette county, Kentucky. OHIO. Area, 39,964 Square Miles. Population in I860, 2,339,511... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1872 - 396 páginas
...wrote in reference to his many painful adventures : " My footsteps have often been marked with blood. Two darling sons and a brother have I lost by savage...an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness." Agitated by the thought of the loss of his farm and deeply wounded in his feelings, as though a great... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1879 - 826 páginas
...account of his adventures, written by himself, Boone says: " Many dark and sleepless nights have I spent, separated from the cheerful society of men, scorched...an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness." * * * " The buffaloes were more numerous than cattle in the settlements, browsing on the leaves of... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1880 - 382 páginas
...wrote in reference to his many painful adventures : " My footsteps have often been marked with blood. Two darling sons and a brother have I lost by savage...an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness." Agitated by the thought of the loss of his farm and deeply wounded in his feelings, as though a great... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1884 - 316 páginas
...and a brother have I lost by savage hands, which have also taken from me forty valuable horses and cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights have I been...— an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness. " What thanks, what ardent and ceaseless thanks are due to that all-superintending Providence which... | |
 | Zachariah Frederick Smith - 1886 - 890 páginas
...an abundance of cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights have I been a companion for owls, and often scorched by the summer's sun and pinched by the winter's...an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness." We would deem it incomplete to close this brief biographic sketch without introducing the fine passages... | |
 | 1904 - 630 páginas
...and an abundance of cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights have I spent, separated from the chearful society of men, scorched by the summer's sun, and...cold, an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness. But now the scene is changed : peace crowns the sylvan shade. DANIEL BOON. Fayette County, Kentucke.... | |
 | 1904 - 612 páginas
...and an abundance of cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights have I spent, separated from the chearful society of men, scorched by the summer's sun, and...cold, an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness. But now the scene is changed : peace crowns the sylvan shade. DANIEL BOON. Fayette County, Kentucke.... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 páginas
...cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights have I been a companion for owls, separated from the chearful society of men, scorched by the Summer's sun, and...cold, an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness. — DANIEL BOONE, in Autobiography.™ The Kentucky Settlers. — - As we have seen, Daniel Boone was... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1893 - 358 páginas
...Hidden behind rocks and trees, they poured in their bullets in a manner far more brisk than eifectual. The garrison but feebly responded to this incessant...the solitude of the unsettled forest, and in 1802 he again pulled up stakes and plunged into the depths of the "Western woods. " Too much crowded," he... | |
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Two darling sons and a brother have I lost by savage hands, which have also taken from me forty valuable horses, and abundance of cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights have I been a companion for owls, separated from the cheerful society of men, scorched... 
