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Title: Daniel Boone
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Gulliver, Lucile, b. 1882
Subjects: Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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he most rigorous penalties of the law. Boone and his associates, nevertheless,continued their plans. Once in the West, they knew that they would be too far away for England's officials to trouble them. Boone chose his road-makers, thirty guns in all, each an enterprising backwoodsman and trained Indian fighter. They gladly accepted the work, as the terms for settlement in Kentucky, offered by the Transylvania Company, were generous. Squire Boone, Michael Stoner, and Boone's friends, Richard Calloway and David Gass, were among the pioneers. While they were gathering at Long Island, a picturesque spot in the Holston River, preparations were being made at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River for the reception of the Indians.There in the fertile valley, between the river andthe foothills, twelve hundred Cherokees, who had been assembled by Boone, pitched their tents and wigwams, and made ready for the great council at which they expected to sell the territory which they claimed as ancestral hunting-ground.
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MAKING THE WILDERNESS ROAD 119 Early in March the conference was opened with elaborate ceremony. Colonel Henderson and Daniel Boone, Nathaniel Hart, and John Luttrell represented the Transylvania Company; the spokesmen for the Indians were the lean and withered chiefs, Oconostota and Atta-Kulla-Kulla, and the warriors, Savanooko and Dragging Canoe. After days of discussion and oration, ^the Great Grant was signed. An immense tract, comprising more than half the present state of Kentucky and including a path thither from the east through Powells Valley, was deeded to Henderson and his associates, for which they gave the Cherokees a small amount of British money and $50,000 worth of merchandise. The goods filled a large cabin and made a pleasingappearance. When they were divided, there was some grumbling. One red man, who received only a shirt as his share, said that it was foolishness to sell a hunting-ground which would bring him more money in a single day than the value of such a garment. On the who

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