Four American Pioneers: Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, David Crockett, Kit Carson; A Book for Young Americans (Classic Reprint)

Childhood. When Daniel Boone was a child the land west of the AU eghanies was a wilderness inhabited only by I ndians. But in Virginia, and other places east of the mountains, there were fine houses with broad porches and large, richly-furnished rooms. There stately men in powdered wigs and knee-breeches, and queenly dames in stifi brocades and high-heeled shoes, lived and brought up little American boys and girls after the fashion of their English cousins. However, it was not in such a house nor among such people that Daniel Boone learned to walk, and talk, and think. His father was a poor man who lived in a rude log cabin on the outskirts of a dark forest in Pennsylvania. There Daniel spent his happy childhood. The cabin was small, but that made it very snug in winter when the snow was blowing outside and the logs were blazing in the great stone fireplace.
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