A History of the Daniel Boone National Forest, 1770-1970 |
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acres Beaver Creek Boone National Forest Boone Trace Boone's Boonesborough buffalo cabins Callaway camp Captain Cherokee Colonel colony conservation continued County crossing Cumberland Gap Cumberland National Forest Cumberland Purchase Unit Cumberland River Daniel Boone National deer District Ranger early eastern Kentucky established families Forest land Forestry Fork Fort Boonesborough frontier furnace Governor headwaters Highway horses hunters hunting Indian attack initial John John Luttrell Judge Henderson Kentucky River Kentucky's killed located logs Management Area miles Mountain natural resource North Carolina Office Ohio River organization party percent present proclamation Ranger District Red River Gorge Regional Forester Richard Henderson rifle road Rockcastle River salt settlement settlers Shawnee Sierra Club spring Station Stearns Company stockade stream strip mining Sycamore Shoals thence timber Tolliver tract trail Transylvania Colony Transylvania Company Treaty trees tribe trip U.S. Forest Service Virginia watershed wilderness William
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Page 24 - We found everywhere abundance of wild beasts of all sorts, through this vast forest. The buffalo were more frequent than I have seen cattle in the settlements, browsing on the leaves of the cane, or cropping the herbage on those extensive plains, fearless, because ignorant of the violence of man. Sometimes we saw hundreds in a drove, and the numbers about the salt springs were amazing.
Page 41 - Indians; in order, therefore, to prevent such irregularities for the future, and to the end that the Indians may be convinced of our justice and determined resolution to remove all reasonable cause of discontent, we do, with the advice of our privy council, strictly enjoin and require, that no private person do presume to make any purchase from the said Indians of any lands reserved to the said Indians within those parts of our colonies where we have thought proper to allow settlement...
Page 214 - That for the purpose of relieving the acute condition of widespread distress and unemployment now existing in the United States, and in order to provide for the restoration of the country's depleted natural resources and the advancement of an orderly program of useful public works...
Page 21 - It was on the first of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin River, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stewart, Joseph Holden, James Monay, and William Cool.
Page 61 - My advice to you, sir, is to come or send as soon as possible. Your company is desired greatly, for the people are very uneasy, but are willing to stay and venture their lives with you...