...imagination fires with a vision of Arden and the charm of sylvan life as it exists in poetry. Thon, singing the " Hunters of Kentucky," it follows the...pictures him as lord of his leafy realm, a voluntary Robinson Crusoe of the wilderness, flying the footprint of the most amiable Friday ; a human Orson,...

...happiness, and left his family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin river, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky." His companions were five in number — John Finley, John Stewart, Joseph Holden, James Mooney, and...

...Mississippi River — almost a century before Daniel Boone with five companions set out "to wander through the wilderness of America in quest of the country of Kentucky." The tablets unveiled today bear the names of four men — three Frenchmen and an Italian. This is some...

...four others as CHAP. companions, the1 young man, of about three and «— • Xtwenty, wandered forth through the wilderness of America, " in quest of the country of Kentucky," 2 known to the Savages as " the Dark and Bloody Ground," " the Middle Ground " between the subjects...