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... rifles , Simple Though very Serene , not true , were yet not used for trifles . sullen , were the solitudes Of this unsigning people of the woods . - - Byron .. DANIE BOONE AND THE FOUNDING OF KENTUCKY ANIER DANIE BOONE. · Boone lived ...
... rifles , Simple Though very Serene , not true , were yet not used for trifles . sullen , were the solitudes Of this unsigning people of the woods . - - Byron .. DANIE BOONE AND THE FOUNDING OF KENTUCKY ANIER DANIE BOONE. · Boone lived ...
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... rifle , and they were tame and easily slain ΜΟ too , sometimes fell two hunters . two huffs the foo too , At times . would go The wolf and the cougar , ictims to the prowess of the slept in hollow trees , or in some bush lean - to Sf ...
... rifle , and they were tame and easily slain ΜΟ too , sometimes fell two hunters . two huffs the foo too , At times . would go The wolf and the cougar , ictims to the prowess of the slept in hollow trees , or in some bush lean - to Sf ...
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... rifle , and traversed roads not a mile of which was free from the anger of Indian attack . settlements in the early years depended exclu- 192 melttga was settlemen sively upon When The me for their meat , and Boone was the mightiest of ...
... rifle , and traversed roads not a mile of which was free from the anger of Indian attack . settlements in the early years depended exclu- 192 melttga was settlemen sively upon When The me for their meat , and Boone was the mightiest of ...
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... rifle in hand , he pushed back and overthrew the force against him ; but meanwhile the Indians destroyed the right wing and center , and got round in his rear , so that there was nothing left all possible for Boone's men except to flee ...
... rifle in hand , he pushed back and overthrew the force against him ; but meanwhile the Indians destroyed the right wing and center , and got round in his rear , so that there was nothing left all possible for Boone's men except to flee ...
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... rifle . Before reaching the Mississippi the little flotilla landed , and Clark led his men northward against In the Illinois towns . one of them , Kaskaskia , dwelt the British commander of the entire district up to Detroit . The small ...
... rifle . Before reaching the Mississippi the little flotilla landed , and Clark led his men northward against In the Illinois towns . one of them , Kaskaskia , dwelt the British commander of the entire district up to Detroit . The small ...
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