Boone: A Biography (86 page)
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Authors: Robert Morgan
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Vandalia Company,
42
Vanlear (merchant),
375
Vestal, Stanley,
399
Virginia, colonial government of, Henderson’s land purchase and,
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–2
Virginia Gazette
,
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Virginia Land Commission,
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288
Virginia legislature,
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220
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283
DB as representative in,
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–4,
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–77
Virginia militia
DB as officer in,
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–52,
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DB’s provisioning contract with,
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–79,
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raids on Shawnee towns in 1779,
297
Shawnee attack on Kentucky in 1778 and,
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–55,
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279
Voegelin, C. F. (anthropologist),
245
Voltaire,
214
von Steuben, Baron,
214
Wabash River,
381
Walker, Fred G., iv
“Walking” (Thoreau essay),
451
“warping” technique,
373
Warrior’s Path,
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–96,
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Washington, George,
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western lands and,
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Watauga Association,
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Watauga River,
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Watauga Valley, settlements of the,
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Wayne, “Mad” Anthony,
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–33,
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Webb, John (uncle),
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Webber, C. W.,
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West, the,
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allure of,
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–48,
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Cumberland Gap’s importance to settlement of,
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Lewis and Clark expedition,
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Louisiana purchase, significance of,
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sense of unlimited frontier,
193
significance of the settlement of Kentucky,
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–71
“When Lilacs Last in Dooryards
Bloomed”` (Whitman poem),
121
Whitefield, George,
25
White Rocks,
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Whitman, Walt,
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–18,
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–54,
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Wilcoxen (neighbor),
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Wilcoxson, John (brother-in-law),
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Wilcoxson, Sarah Boone (sister),
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Wilderness Road,
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creation of,
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–58,
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–69,
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Wilderness Road, The
(Kincaid),
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Williams, William Carlos,
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Williamson, Col. David,
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Willis, John,
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Wilson, Mrs. Hugh,
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Wolf, Captain (Shawnee chief),
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Wolf Hills (later Abingdon),
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women on the frontier, roles of,
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–63,
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–88,
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siege of Bryan’s Station,
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–13
Wood, Samuel,
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Woodland Indians,
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Woodmason, Rev. Charles,
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Wordsworth, William,
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Worth (hunting companion),
380
Yadkin Valley, North Carolina,
30
–31,
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–35,
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Boone family moves to,
25
–30,
32
Boone family’s frequent moves in,
84
DB and family members returning to, after siege at Boonesborough,
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DB returns to Kentucky from, in 1779,
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Indian raids in 1750s,
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“Year of Blood” (1782),
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Year of the Three Sevens,
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Yellowstone River,
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Yocum, Jesse,
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R
OBERT
M
ORGAN
was raised on his family’s farm in the North Carolina mountains. He is the author of eleven books of poetry and eight books of fiction, including the bestselling novel
Gap Creek
. Winner of a 2007 Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, he lives in Ithaca, New York, where he teaches at Cornell University.
Boone birthplace, Oley, PA. Photograph. Ca. 1930s.
This incorporates the original building and looks surpisingly like the stone house Boone died in in Missouri in 1820. (Courtesy Pennsylvania State Archives—Record Group 13.)
Squire and Sarah Boone tombstone,
Joppa Cemetery, Mocksville, North Carolina. When Boone’s father, Squire, died in January 1765, this stone, framed now in brick, was placed over his grave. The circles with points in the center imply that Squire was a Freemason, as was his son Daniel. (Photo: Benjamin R. Morgan.)
Masonic symbols. Amos Doolittle. Engraving. From Jeremy Cross
, Masters Carpet: The True Masonic Chart or Hieroglyphic Monitor,
1820. Freemasonry was a fresh wind sweeping through Great Britain, Europe, and North America in the eighteenth century, promoting brotherhood, service, and progressive thought. (Courtesy National Heritage Museum, Lexington, MA. Photography by John M. Miller.)
Boonesborough in 1778.
Drawing. From George W. Ranck
, Boonesborough (
Filson Club Publication No. 16
),
1901. Based on a design made by Col. Richard Henderson in 1775, this drawing shows the fort as it was finally completed in 1778
. (
Courtesy Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY
.)
“
Divine Elm
.” Meeting of the Transylvania House of Delegates, May 1775.
Drawing. From George W. Ranck
, Boonesborough
(Filson Club Publication No. 16), 1901. With no building large enough for a meeting, the delegates gathered under a giant elm outside the fort to make laws and plan the government of the future colony of Transylvania. (Courtesy Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY.)
