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SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
1. What kind of boyhood had Daniel Boone?
2. Imagine yourself to have been in his place during the weeks when he was
alone in the Kentucky forests; give an account of what happened.
3. Tell about his second capture by the Indians and his escape. Why did
they admire him?
4. What did he do for Kentucky? What kind of man was he?
CHAPTER VIII
JAMES ROBERTSON
Another pioneer who lived in Boone's day was James Robertson. Like Boone,
he came from North Carolina, and he led the way for the settling of
Tennessee very much as Boone did for Kentucky. The story of those days
shows that he was one of the most forceful and successful of the early
English pioneers who led out settlements west of the Alleghanies.
[Illustration: James Robertson.]
Born in 1742, Robertson was ten years younger than Washington. But this
boy's early life was very different from young George Washington's, for
little James was born in a backwoods cabin, and his father and mother were
too poor to send him to school. So he grew up to manhood without being
able to read and write.
But he wanted to study, and was persevering and brave enough to learn the
letters of the alphabet and how to spell and to write after he had grown
to manhood.
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