Boone: A Biography (82 page)

Detroit militia,
255

Devonshire, England,
1
–3

Dickinson, Emily,
426
,
427

Dinwiddie, Gov. Robert,
42

Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke
(Filson),
xviii
,
336
–45

“Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon,”
xviii
,
336
–45,
361
,
367
,
375
–76,
454

endorsement of,
344

publication of,
344

Divine Elm,
267
,
405

1775 convention under the,
180
–83,
261
,
405

Dobbs, Maj. Edward,
43

domestic arts,
62
–63

Don Juan
(Byron),
343
,
448

Douglas, James,
141
,
143
,
145
,
146
,
180
,
357

Dowd, Gregory Evans,
246

Dragging Canoe (Cherokee warrior),
157
,
160
,
161
,
162
,
204
,
210

Drake (hired man),
136
,
137
–38

Drake, Daniel,
362

Drake, James,
119
–20,
130

Draper, Lyman Copeland,
xx
–xxi,
xxiii
,
13
,
17
,
29
,
72
,
74
,
76
,
93
,
97
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100
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129
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341
,
363
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366
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367
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381
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391
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401
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411
,
417
,
421
,
422
,
426
,
427
,
431
,
432
,
433
,
440
,
444

“Dry Salvages, The” (Eliot poem),
398

dugouts,
399

Duncan, John,
149

Dunmore, Lord,
130
,
135
,
138
,
140
,
141
,
143
,
147
,
150
,
151
,
152
,
156
,
201
,
239
,
283
,
303

Durand, Asher B.,
448

Durrett, Col. Reuben,
345

Dysart, James,
120

Edwards, Jonathan,
25

Elinipsico,
222

Eliot, T. S.,
398

elk,
102

Elkhorn Creek,
286

Elliott, Matthew,
310

Ellis, Joseph J.,
42
,
119

Ellis, Capt. William,
314

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
xvii
,
11
,
70
,
117
,
118
,
427
,
434
,
446
,
449
–51,
457

Emery, Capt. William (Cherokee chief),
103
,
120
,
227
,
253
,
341

Eriksson, Leif,
47

Erik the Red,
47

Estill, James,
200
,
306

Estill, Monk (slave),
224
,
305
–6,
403

Estill family,
224
,
305
–6

Estill’s Station,
305
,
306

European Magazine,
375
–76

Exeter, England,
1
–2

Exeter Meeting,
7
,
9
,
25
,
26

Fallen Timbers, Battle of,
332
–33,
365
,
382

Falls of the Ohio,
100
,
114
,
127
,
131
,
196
,
292

Fanning, Edmund,
124
,
125

Faragher, John Mack,
xxii
–xxiii,
18
,
74
,
77
,
240

Farrar, John,
183

“Fate” (Emerson essay),
450

Faulkner, William,
447

Femme Osage Creek

Boone family land and cabins on the,
391
–92,
400
–401,
409

Boone stone home built on,
435
–39,
442

Ferguson, Patrick,
385

Filson, John,
447

background of,
336
–37

as Boone biographer,
xviii
,
xx
,
40
,
96
,
102
,
106
,
108
,
111
,
156
,
167
,
174
,
185
,
190
,
232
,
242
,
261
,
275
,
279
–80,
324
,
333
,
335
–45,
361
,
367
,
376
,
426
,
429
,
454

death of,
345

eulogy for,
345

as teacher and surveyor,
336
–37

Findley, John,
44
,
47
,
85
,
86
–87,
89
,
114
,
390

expedition of 1769,
94
,
98
,
100
,
104
,
106
,
107

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
278

flatboats,
372

Fleming, Col. William,
197
–98,
223
,
384

Flinn, Chloe,
364
–65

Flint, Rev. Timothy,
xx
,
49
,
51
,
79
,
413
,
424
–25,
434

Florida expedition of 1765,
82
–83

Floyd, John,
173
,
180
,
188
,
207
,
209
,
216
,
288
,
331

death of,
358
,
359

letters to Col. Preston,
183
–84,
201
,
286
,
297

as surveyor,
131
,
141
,
143
–47,
183
,
194
,
333
,
350
,
357
–58,
359

Fort Cumberland,
43

Fort Dobbs,
58
,
60

Fort Duquesne,
43
,
44

forting up,
58

Fort Leavenworth,
425

Fort Lee,
376

Fort MacIntosh,
352

Fort Necessity,
43

Fort Nelson,
100

Fort Osage,
425

Fort Pitt,
140
,
195

Fort Russell,
151

Fox, George,
1
,
2
,
4
,
6

France,
40
–41,
42
,
43
,
304

control over Louisiana territory,
405
,
407
,
409

salt licks of Kentucky and,
112

Franklin, Benjamin,
42
,
43
,
94
,
447

as Freemason, xxv,
27
,
214

Freemasons,
27
,
43
–44,
214
–15,
239

DB as member of, xxv,
43
,
44
,
60
,
437

French and Indian War,
38
,
43
,
44
–46,
147

veterans of, award of land to,
89
,
131
,
154
,
289

French Lick,
119
,
121
,
127
,
279

furs and fur trade,
19
,
37
–39,
86
,
375
,
410
–11,
419
,
422

beaver,
19
,
37
,
38
,
66
–67,
86
,
87
,
107
,
194
,
292
,
375
,
379
,
380
,
401
,
422

DB and,
31
,
37
,
39
,
72
,
102
–4,
107
–9,
116
–17,
122
–23,
127
,
375
,
404
,
419
,
429

fox,
19
,
37
,
38
,
86
,
401

the French and,
41

Kentucky and,
85
–86

mink,
19
,
37
,
38
,
39
,
86

muskrat,
19
,
38
,
86

otter,
19
,
37
,
38
,
39
,
86

pine marten,
19

raccoon,
19
,
86

wolves,
37
,
401

Gage, Thomas,
44

Gass, David,
138
,
159
,
163
,
207

Gass, John,
182
,
207
,
252
,
256
,
258
,
267
,
270

Gates, Horatio,
44

Gibson, Col. John,
152

Gilman, Carolyn,
244

ginseng,
69
,
370

DB’s 1788 loss of shipment of, in boating accident,
359
,
366
–68

trade in,
37
,
366
–67,
370
,
375

Girty, George,
229
,
230
,
255
,
310

Girty, James,
229
,
230
,
255

Girty, Simon,
152
,
234
,
306
,
307
,
353
,
412

Battle of the Blue Licks,
317
,
321
,
330

described,
310

raid on Bryan’s Station,
313
,
315
–16

speech of 1782,
309
,
310

Gist, Christopher,
42
,
99
,
112

Gist, Nathaniel,
67
,
68

Glass, Hugh,
403
,
454

Gnaddenhutten, Indian settlement at,
305
,
307

Godwin, William,
361
,
454

Goe, Philip (son-in-law),
348
,
366
,
370
,
408

Goe, Rebecca Boone (daughter),
128
,
287
,
348

death of,
408

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
110

Goodman, Ansel,
233

Goodman, Daniel,
219

Graham, Sarah,
224
,
327

Grant, Elizabeth Boone (sister),
13
,
29
,
60

Grant, John (nephew),
379

Grant, William (brother-in-law),
60

Greasy Creek,
383

Great Awakening,
25
–26

Greathouse, Daniel,
148

Great Meadow,
see
Middle Ground

Great Salt Lake,
403

Green, John,
146

Gulliver’s Travels
(Swift),
17
,
71
,
107
,
115

Guthrie, A. B.,
447

Hale, J. P.,
304
,
382

half-face,
70
–71

Hamilton, Henry “Hair Buyer,”
215
,
238
,
239
–41,
255
,
256
–57,
258
,
259
,
285
,
299

DB’s prison visit to,
296
–97

Hamilton, James,
145

Hammon, Neal O.,
xxiii
,
184
,
272
,
289
,
293
,
305
,
311
,
349
,
350
,
386

Battle of the Blue Licks and,
319
,
320

Hammond, Nathan,
180

Hancock, Stephen,
264
,
271

Hancock, William,
233
,
252
,
253

Hanging Maw (Cherokee chief),
203
–5,
206
,
208
,
210
–12

Hanks, Abraham,
172

Hanson, Thomas,
144

Harding, Chester,
441
–42

Harget, Peter,
333

Harlin, Maj. Silas,
316
–17,
320
,
321
,
325

Harmar, Col. Josiah,
332
,
365

Harmon, Valentine,
180

Harris, Edward,
198
–99

Harrod, James,
131
,
144
,
145
,
155
,
179
,
180
,
201
,
218
,
344
,
418