Daniel Boone: Wilderness ScoutCosimo, Inc., 01/11/2005 - 372 páginas Promptly at the end of three days of fasting Boone knew that the war party would set forth no matter what the weather. It was a bad omen otherwise. In single file, at spaced intervals, the painted warriors would move from the town, firing their rifles slowly one after the other... -from Chapter XIV This semifictionalized biography of the legendary frontiersman, first published in 1921, rings with desperate dialogue ("We'll be caught if we stay here... the Indians are not far behind us") and gung-ho wilderness adventure. From Boone's childhood along the banks of the Delaware River-full of escapades "any normal and healthy boy would have revelled in"-to his cantankerous old age, in which he chafed to go further west to escape the encroachment of civilization into his beloved Kentucky, this is a highly entertaining life of the man who was never lost, but was "bewildered once for three days." American writer STEWART EDWARD WHITE (1873-1946) wrote of his own wilderness adventures in The Claim Jumpers (1901) and The Blazed Trail (1902). His historical novels include Gold (1913), The Gray Dawn (1915), and The Rose Dawn (1920). |
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... powder horns , and firearms ; perhaps among them is a real Kentucky rifle , or a tomahawk ! From the Yadkin you may follow a smooth highway through the Cumberland Gap , over the original road which Boone cut through the wilderness ...
... powder horns , and firearms ; perhaps among them is a real Kentucky rifle , or a tomahawk ! From the Yadkin you may follow a smooth highway through the Cumberland Gap , over the original road which Boone cut through the wilderness ...
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... powder and lead , they could do so . IO 20 Another phase of this unique schooling was that which is now done by our games and gymnasiums , the building of their physical bodies . They had rather good stock to start from . Their ...
... powder and lead , they could do so . IO 20 Another phase of this unique schooling was that which is now done by our games and gymnasiums , the building of their physical bodies . They had rather good stock to start from . Their ...
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... powder and lead was greatly desirable . It became an absolute necessity when , as did Boone , the hunter left home for a year at 10 a time . He should be able to vary his charge of powder according to the distance he had to shoot and ...
... powder and lead was greatly desirable . It became an absolute necessity when , as did Boone , the hunter left home for a year at 10 a time . He should be able to vary his charge of powder according to the distance he had to shoot and ...
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... powder made a full load . He took the same sight up to about fifty yards with the thimble- ful charge that he would at one hundred with the full charge , or a hundred and fifty with a double 5 charge . There is a very persistent legend ...
... powder made a full load . He took the same sight up to about fifty yards with the thimble- ful charge that he would at one hundred with the full charge , or a hundred and fifty with a double 5 charge . There is a very persistent legend ...
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... powder , but not to crush the grains . That is another silly legend , that the bullet must be rammed down hard " until the ramrod jumps out of the barrel . " Such a pro- cedure would give an astounding variety of pres- sures , and our ...
... powder , but not to crush the grains . That is another silly legend , that the bullet must be rammed down hard " until the ramrod jumps out of the barrel . " Such a pro- cedure would give an astounding variety of pres- sures , and our ...
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adventure America Photoplays animals attack band battle Blackfish Blue Licks Boone's Boonesborough borderers boys brother buffalo bullets cabin Callaway camp captivity captured carried cattle CHAPTER chief Chillicothe Chronicles of America Colonel Cornstalk danger Daniel Boone defenders enemy escape expedition facing feet fight fighters fire followed forest garrison gathered George Rogers Clark hand horses hundred hunter hunting Indians journey Kentucky killed knew land lived Logan look Lord Dunmore meat Moluntha mountains never night Ohio River once packhorses peace Permission Yale University pioneer powder raids reënforcements rifle salt salt-makers savages says scalps scout settlement settlers Shawnees shoot shot side Simon Girty Simon Kenton Squire Squire Boone stockade story supply Sycamore Shoals things tion tomahawk took trail trapping tree tribe villages warfare warriors wild wilderness Wilderness Road women woodcraft Wyandot Yadkin young ΙΟ
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Página 132 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 133 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 115 - What did you kill my people on Yellow Creek for ? The white people killed my kin, at Conestoga, a great while ago ; and I thought nothing of that. But you killed my kin again, on Yellow Creek, and took my Cousin prisoner. Then I thought I must kill too ; and I have been three times to war since ; but the Indians are not angry : only myself.
Página 138 - My footsteps have often been marked with blood, and therefore I can truly subscribe to its original name. Two darling...
Página 134 - ... them while in their families, accompanied with other presents, and all the marks of the most sincere and tender affection. Nay, they...
Página 186 - Shawanese king took great notice of me, and treated me with profound respect, and entire friendship, often entrusting me to hunt at my liberty. I frequently returned with the spoils of the woods, and as often presented some of what I had taken to him, expressive of duty to my sovereign.
Página 104 - This dense forest was to the Indians a home in which they had lived from childhood, and where they were as much at ease as a farmer on his own acres. To their keen eyes, trained for generations to more than a wild beast's watchfulness, the wilderness was an open book: nothing at rest or in motion escaped - , them. They had begun to track game as soon as they could walk; a scrape on a tree trunk, a bruised leaf, a faint indentation of the soil, which the eye of no white man could see, — all told...
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I Have Spoken: American History Through the Voices of the Indians Virginia Irving Armstrong Visualização de excertos - 1971 |
A Handbook of Children's Literature - Methods and Materials Emelyn E. Gardner Pré-visualização indisponível - 2007 |