Daniel Boone: Wilderness ScoutCosimo, Inc., 1 nov 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). |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 20
Página 5
... Cattle roamed the woods near by , with bells so that they could be more easily found . 5 These must be brought in every night ; and while usually they gathered of their own accord antici- pating the reward of a few handfuls of corn ...
... Cattle roamed the woods near by , with bells so that they could be more easily found . 5 These must be brought in every night ; and while usually they gathered of their own accord antici- pating the reward of a few handfuls of corn ...
Página 7
... cattle had not managed to escape notice . Then they had 20 been tomahawked or carried away . Just such a thing might happen at any time , anywhere . You may be sure that that thought was impressed upon them , until it was always present ...
... cattle had not managed to escape notice . Then they had 20 been tomahawked or carried away . Just such a thing might happen at any time , anywhere . You may be sure that that thought was impressed upon them , until it was always present ...
Página 8
... cattle were other errands that took our youngsters abroad . In those times were tasks for every pair of hands , no matter how small . We of this age hardly know 25 what poverty is , as these men and women knew it . We may know ...
... cattle were other errands that took our youngsters abroad . In those times were tasks for every pair of hands , no matter how small . We of this age hardly know 25 what poverty is , as these men and women knew it . We may know ...
Página 10
... cattle and 20 wild nuts and berries near at home , later in pursuit of game for the family meat supply . The necessity for wariness , not only to get the game but to save their own scalps , made them as supple and enduring as their home ...
... cattle and 20 wild nuts and berries near at home , later in pursuit of game for the family meat supply . The necessity for wariness , not only to get the game but to save their own scalps , made them as supple and enduring as their home ...
Página 48
... cattle in the settle- ments ; sometimes we saw hundreds in a drove , and the numbers about the salt springs were amazing . " 20 They picked a site on the Red River , built them- selves a small rude cabin , and proceeded to hunt and ...
... cattle in the settle- ments ; sometimes we saw hundreds in a drove , and the numbers about the salt springs were amazing . " 20 They picked a site on the Red River , built them- selves a small rude cabin , and proceeded to hunt and ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Daniel Boone: Wilderness Scout - Scholar's Choice Edition Stewart Edward White No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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...
Referencias a este libro
I Have Spoken: American History Through the Voices of the Indians Virginia Irving Armstrong Vista de fragmentos - 1971 |
A Handbook of Children's Literature - Methods and Materials Emelyn E. Gardner No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2007 |