Show OF GREAT SCOUTS daniel boone danel danei boone was the son of quaker parents who lived in pennsylvania the principal duc doctrine trine in he fie quaker creed Is that man must ot kill daniel departed from the faith of 01 his fathers early arid and he became one ot of the greatest indian lg leliter liter in american history when boone was eglite eighteen en his parent ar erit moved to norta carolina and n the badkin yadkin valley of that state oung boone became an expert wood sinan and hunter attracted by the tales of a hunter who had crossed the appalachians into the kentucky country boone visited the blue grass state several lines imes gitil he finally decide to make list hat his home in 1775 lie he established boonesborough Boones Doones borough the first outpost of civilization in the dark arid bloody ground as kentucky was caled because it was a battleground for or many tribes of indians boones adventures with the indians in his new home were innumerable in 1778 he was captured by he shawnees who admired the scouts coats i courage so much that he was jot put to death instead chief lack fish adopted him giving him ue lie aamli name of big turtle rather an alpi title tor for a man so ac ive boone pretended to be well pleased with his captivity and after several months the watchfulness of the savages relaxed then he made ills his escape several years later tills same bard band of shawnees came to boones borough to kidnap their former captive they found boone in a lit little t I 1 e shanty used for drying tobacco now ON boone aone we got you said the indians you no get gel away this 1 time yes you have me but I 1 am glad to go with fill sou aou replied the scout but I 1 want my friends to have soule some of this tobacco up a drnest leaves and unseen by the indians crushed them in hi his hands before they could move he threw the pondered pov dered toba cico into their eyes As the blinded savages rolled on the floor howling and digging at their eyes tho the former sig big turtle showed shoved unexpected speed and was tar far up ill the trail to the tore fore before they could pursue him lit in his later years boone was cheated out of the rich kentucky lands ho he had fought so hard to win arid and he migrated to missouri becoming a hunter once more he died there in 1820 atthe at the age ot eghte six A quarter of a century later kentucky paid him belated lionor honor by removing his body to the capital of the elie state and today daniel boone sleeps in the land where he be won fume fame as a pioneer and scout |