WEBVTT - Ep. 18: Daniel Boone - American Woodsman (Part 3) 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:08.760 M. Daniel Boone and his actions and his life, real 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:14.440 or mythical, embodied what the American people wanted to see 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.640 happen in the wilderness. They wanted to see man in 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:23.360 the wilderness thriving and dominating and conquering, because that's a 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.640 good story. Because that's a good story. And so whether 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.000 it happened or not, we wrote it deep down because 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:34.640 we wanted to read it. On this third and final 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.200 episode of the Daniel Boone series on The Burglaries podcast, 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.600 We're gonna cover Boone's life from thirty five years of 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.520 age to the grave, or at least where we think 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:48.320 it's grave is. Will explore Boone's adoption as a Shawnee, 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:52.880 the heroic rescue of his daughter, rumors of his wife's unfaithfulness, 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.840 him killing a hundred and fifty five bears in one season, 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:00.480 his financial failures, and his character. We're in s of 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.920 who Boon was, his significance in American culture, and perhaps 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:10.039 you'll find his fingerprints on your life. Heroes are conduits 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:14.280 of value systems, and will evaluate the one deposited by 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.760 the old backwoodsman. Betrail has been steep and thick, but 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:23.120 we're about to ascend to the hilltop and see Boone's 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.200 grand vista. You're not gonna want to miss this one. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.759 So Boone's story, it's really the story of this country, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:43.080 good and bad. My name is Clay Nukelem and this 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.199 is the Bear Grease Podcast, where we'll explore things forgotten 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.640 but relevant, search for insight and unlikely places, and where 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.480 we'll tell the story of Americans who lived their lives 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.760 close to the land. Presented by f h F gear, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:05.000 American made purpose built hunting and fishing gear as designed 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:38.320 to be as rugged as the places we explore. On 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.640 Part one of our series on Daniel Boone, we highlighted 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.160 the foundations of his early life from birth to when 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.280 he was thirty five years old, and traversed the Cumberland Gap. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.760 We explored the cultural mechanisms in which national heroes and 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.520 their identity are created through archetypes. On Part two, we 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.520 camped out in the dad Gum Cumberland Gap and knuck key. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.240 The Gap must have been blushing by the time we 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:07.440 were done. Dan's passage through it was key in his life, 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:11.320 his legend in the Young Life of America. Part three, 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:15.679 the final in our series, maybe my favorite of them all, 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:17.880 We're gonna take a big swing at the rest of 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.720 the Boone's life, all the way to the grave. There's 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.640 no way we can do justice to all the stories, 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:29.800 the nuance. But we're in search of understanding this woodsman's 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:38.240 significance what it means to American identity today. On this 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.640 third episode, I grow weary of telling you all the 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:47.600 cool things about Steve Runella. He's played a very significant 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:51.040 role in defining the modern American hunter through his books, 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.160 podcast and the academic rigor he's brought into the space 0:03:55.400 --> 0:04:01.480 of the American hunter. Here's Steve, it's Dave Ranella. Talk 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.240 to me about the significance of Kentucky to to Boon 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:10.080 number one, but also to the American frontier. When we 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.960 talk about going into Kentucky. When these guys would discuss it, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.159 they were more particularly talking about a region of Kentucky. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.000 If you came down through the Cumberland Gap and entered Kentucky. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.200 They were traveling quite a ways beyond that, because they 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.359 were going out to the to the hills, to the 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.680 grass the grasslands. Do you want to get an idea 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.520 what this might look like. There are people, there are 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:35.680 records from Boone and other frontiersman about massive herds of 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:41.640 buffalo out on the grasslands of Kentucky. There are descriptions 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.799 of it as where where there aren't trees around, herds 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.760 of elk, estimations of maybe a thousand buffalo in a 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.920 group deer to the point where long hunters could go 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:58.279 there and shoot literally hundreds of deer. And it was 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.839 fertile soil you could plant it, so they needed certain 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.480 things that they could get off the land in order 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.440 to pack up your family on pack horses or a 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.240 small wagon and go way out and established like a 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:19.840 new frontier settlement. And that had all of that game, grasslands, water, 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:26.120 tillable soil, and just space where that every family going, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.080 every member of every family going is picturing that they're 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.160 going to get all the land they need, and then 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.040 their kids will have all the land they need. That's 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:43.560 the promise that Kentucky held out to the frontiersman who 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.720 are going there. It was a way to make a 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:52.039 shift from being long hunters who lived off the spoils, 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:57.440 the sort of immediate spoils of the field, to become landowners, 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.760 to become like business people. Right, that was your place 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.880 to go and get They wouldn't use this term at all, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.400 but it was your place to go get the American dream, 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.599 which that was before the American dream existed. When I 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.279 say that they wouldn't have used that term is at 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.960 that time they wouldn't really have. They wouldn't really they 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.840 thought of themselves as Americans. It's interesting that there was 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.960 a confused even at the time the Revolutionary War among 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.839 Boone and other long hunters and frontiers and he was with. 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:29.880 There was a bit of confusion about what side of 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.920 that you ought to fall on. Initially, they lived so 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.800 far removed from like the the rule of the crown, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.440 that they weren't struggling from like that level of oppression there. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.960 They didn't immediately jump onto like this patriotic notion of 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:49.040 being Americans. The idea that Boone was a dedicated American 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.400 patriot is a myth. And we'll learn that he did 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.560 fight for our country on the western front of the 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.560 American Revolution. But the real Boon wasn't sporting eagles in 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:02.760 American flag tato news. America wasn't even a country until 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.279 he was in his forties, and he spent the last 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.840 years of his life outside of the United States and 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.480 the Missouri territory owned by the Spanish. This is the 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.520 place where we'll get onto the same page about Boone's 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.400 exploits in Kentucky. His first attempt to settle in Kentucky 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.280 was in seventeen seventy three, two years after he returned 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.480 home from his first long hunt there, but the mission 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.080 was abandoned when his son James and several others were 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:34.160 killed by Indians. Two years after that, in seventeen seventy five, Dan, 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.040 along with thirty other men, cut a trail through the 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:41.320 Cumberland Gap and trimmed out the longer wilderness road. And 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.280 he brought a bunch of folks with him, including Rebecca 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.760 and the kids. They make it into Kentucky and build 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.440 a fort called Boonsboro. This is where we'll pick up 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:55.440 with two very important events, the rescue of Jemima and 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.280 the siege of Boonsboro by the Shawnees. We'll start with 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:03.760 Jemima's story, but first you need to understand the controversy 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:08.360 around her conception. Here's Steve and I talking about Boone's 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:16.280 quote favorite daughter. To think about how significant the Cumberland 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.080 Gap was to travel through it. When he goes through, 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.040 he's gone two years it's not like you're bopping in 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.760 and out like it's a commitment. He goes there and 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.880 he's gone two years. We'll just imagine something like that 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.320 from a business perspective. You just like walk away from 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.600 your life for two years and come back and then 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.640 later try to sort out your affairs. I mean, you 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.560 just miss a lot. When historians line it all up, 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.320 they can't even make sense of the birth you know, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.360 the birth dates of his children. There were somewhere they're 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.000 like Holmett, but how could that be? He had been 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.680 gone a year but then raise the kid as his oma. 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.640 Just didn't make any sense when ye stuff that was his, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.240 like his daughter Jemima. He had been gone two years 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.440 and he came back. And there's lots of versions of 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.520 this story. The most decent book I read on Boone 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.200 told this story as if it were true. Robert Morgan 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.559 tells the story as if there's quite a bit of 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.840 speculation inside of it. But Boone came back from a 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.559 two year jaunt and his wife had a newborn child 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.679 in her hand, and she was nursing a newborn child. 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.120 He's been gone for two years to that, and it 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:24.120 was found out that the father of the child was 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.719 his brother and it was you know. And this is 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.959 where Boone gets becomes even more famous because he said, well, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.000 at least we kept it in the family, and he 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.880 raised the kid, and that that is for certain. I 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.240 mean he raised the kid as his own. Jemoma was 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:42.240 one of his daughters that later went to an incredible 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:48.320 bit of heroism to savor life. Yeah, now that we 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.920 know the drama around Jemoma, I couldn't tell Boone's story 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:56.600 without including her kidnapping and Boone's rescue mission. We watch 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.640 a lot of fake movies making stuff like this seemed normal, 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.559 but this is real and epitomizes why we're still talking 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:08.720 about d Boone. What a dad gum stud. This is 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.640 the account as told by Nathan Boone, Boone's youngest son, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:17.280 who was interviewed by Lyman Draper. Draper stayed with Nathan 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:21.720 and Olive Boone in October and November of eighteen fifty one. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:26.240 Draper's interview with Nathan is our best resource about Boone's 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.120 life if you hadn't figured it out already. I love 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.199 Lyman Draper. He's kind of the nerdy hero of our 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:37.040 connection to Boone's life. Hashtag draper. Here's Nathan talking about 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:44.720 his father and sister. The girls went pleasuring in a 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.760 canoe on Sunday. One of the callaway girls wanted to 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:49.880 go to a certain point to get some young kane, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.240 and my sister Jemima Boone, was steering in the canoe. 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.600 As the canoe touched the shore, Indians leaped out and 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.400 seized the girls, and the callaway girls fought with their battles. 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.839 Jemima used to say she then had a sore foot 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.559 from a cane stab and had got the other girls 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.640 to go to the river with her that she might 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.200 hold her foot in the water to quiet the pain. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.160 After capture, the Indians hurried the girl's away a few 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.880 miles off. The Indians had left an old white horse. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.200 While the Indians hurried the girls, they delayed as much 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.400 as possible. The Indians then cut off the girls dresses 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.640 and petticoats to the knees to speed their progress, and 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.960 gave them moccasins and leggings hanging mall. A Cherokee was 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.440 of the group. Jemama Boone knew him, probably having met 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.720 him when living on the Watuga. He asked if all 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.360 were daughters of Daniel Boone. She said yes, feeling they 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.240 would be treated more kindly. Hanging Mall then said, laughing, 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.200 we have done pretty well for old Boon this time. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.760 When they reached the horse, they put Jemima on at 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.680 first because of her sore foot, and occasionally put all 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.160 three girls on together. The horse was crossed and would bite. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.160 The girls did everything they could to make a trail 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.120 by dropping bits of cloth until the Indians put a 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.400 stop to it. When first captured, their screams were heard. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.360 Father was lying down on the bed at his house 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.200 and jumped up and seized his gun and started off 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:17.520 without his moccasins. The only person I definitely recall being 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.840 in the pursuing party was Flanders Callaway. Colonel Richard Callaway 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.320 started with the pursuers and they soon found the Indian trail. 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:30.080 Callaway was for following directly on the trail, but father objected. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.520 I suppose Colonel Callaway then returned to Boonsborough. The reason 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.200 my father objected to following the trail was that if 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.800 the Indians had a backwatch, the pursuers would be discovered. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.280 This would give the Indians time enough to tomahawk the girls. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.480 He reasoned that a better way would be to fall 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.040 in ahead and strike and watch their war paths. The 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.240 first night someone had returned for supplies. I think there 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.440 were two or three, and very likely Colonel Callaway had 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.200 returned as soon as the Indian trail was discovered in 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.360 their direction. Determined Father's advice was followed, the party bore 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.440 off to one side of their route, and on the 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.520 day the girls were retaken, they again found the Indian trail. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.240 This they followed a short distance where they found a 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.200 dead buffalo. The Indians had killed and skinned part of 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.640 the hump and cut out a piece and pushed on. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.280 They only took part, as the whole hump would often 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.400 weigh two hundred pounds. When Father saw that the buffalo 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.480 had just been killed and the blood was yet trickling down, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.839 he was certain the Indians would stop to cook. When 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.760 they reached the first water. Later, they found a small 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.600 snake the Indians had killed, which was writhing in death. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.320 Then they discovered the Indian party had separated. The white 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.120 men also split into two groups to search for the Indians, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.640 both up and down the stream. Father with the right 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.520 hand party had gone about two or three hundred yards 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.480 and when descending a hill into a glen, they saw 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:54.080 the Indians camped in a small branch. Immediately, my father 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.240 and some others shot at them and then rushed the camp. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.520 The girls were sitting in the grass on the ground 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.079 in a small open glade and a few steps from 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.480 the fire, and were apparently guarded by one of the 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.880 Indians in a reclining posture. The fire was kindled, and 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.440 three other Indians were gathering wood and preparing for cooking, 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.440 while another Indian was posted some distance in the rear. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.280 This fellow, scene from the smoke that the fire was kindled, 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.680 left his gun standing and ran down to light his pipe, 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.760 and had reached the fire when Boone and his party fired, 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.560 or so my sister always said. At the crack of 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.240 the guns, the girls jumped up, Jemima shouted, that's daddy, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.960 and started towards their rescuers. Father yelled to them to 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.920 throw themselves flat upon the ground in case the Indians 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.000 might shoot back, or in case they might accidentally get 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.040 harmed by the shots of the whites. The girls obeyed. 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.840 The men did not know how many Indians were there, 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:51.000 or if more than they saw might not be nearby. 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.240 One of the Indians that the fire was shot and 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.720 fell into the fire. He must have risen and run 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.520 off mortally wounded, as nothing particularly was said about it. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:01.960 The Indian who was shot at the fire was probably 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.160 the one shot by John Floyd. Father then pointed out 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.320 the bush where the Indians stood that he shot, and 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.640 there found the Indians rifle. The girls had been expecting 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.920 to be rescued until that day, but had finally given 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.160 up hope, and we're very downhearted. The Indians gave them 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.120 jerked meat, but Jemima said she never felt like eating 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.360 a morsel, but her foot mended doing the captivity travel. 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.720 When attacked, the Indians made no attempt to injure the girls. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.160 I think Flanders Callaway was with the party to the left, 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.040 and he was a little later than Boone's party and 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.400 discovering the Indians camp, one of this group fired along shot. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.680 Jemama Boone was born October four, seventeen sixty two, and 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.920 was in her thirteenth year when captured. It was not 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:50.080 long after that that she married young to Flanders Callaway. 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.480 I'm sure you remember Robert Morgan, the author of the 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:01.400 great Boone biography titled Boone. This is the most complex 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.840 event of his life. February of seventy eight, he was 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:11.000 captured by the Shawnees led by a chief Blackfish Catta Wamanga, 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.600 and because this large group of Indians appeared, he had 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.240 to surrender his men, who were boiling salt at the 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:24.200 Blue Legs. Here is Nathan Boone's version of the capture. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:29.000 It's so long, I've condensed it with my commentary splicing 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.600 through the story, so stay with me. Here's Nathan Boone. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.800 I think it was Saturday when my father was taken. 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.760 In Sunday when he surrendered up the others, he said 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.760 he went on horseback to kill meat for the company. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.680 In any event, he had killed the buffalo and loaded 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.520 his horse with meat. It started snowing quite hard before 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.840 he killed the buffalo, so he started for the licks, 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.480 which he had left that morning. He had proceeded some 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.280 distance when he discovered a small party of India on 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.160 his trail. The snow was now something like an inch 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.119 or so deep, and he could easily be followed. Father 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.480 at once attempted to untie and throw off the load 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:12.360 of meat, but failed because the fresh buffalo strings were frozen. 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.200 The strings had been cut from the buffalo that made 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.320 up this heavy load, perhaps three or four hundred pounds, 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.680 and lashed around the horses belly by the tugs. Then 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:23.879 he attempted to draw his knife from the scabbard to 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.360 cut the tugs, but he found his knife which had 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.720 been thrust into the sheath when all bloody had frozen. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:34.399 Father's greasy hands and greasy knife handle prevented him from 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:39.960 getting the knife out. End of quote. The Shawnees then 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:44.640 captured Boone. Nathan went on to describe something very interesting 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:49.600 about his father, My father, Colonel Daniel Boone used to 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.199 say that in his early Indian troubles and difficulties in Kentucky, 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.400 if he dreamed of his father and he was angry, 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:00.639 it would forebode evil. But if he appeared pln't he 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:05.040 had nothing to fear. Each time when captured, robbed, or defeated. 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:10.600 He thus dreamed unfavorably about his father. End of quote. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.680 Now we'll hear Nathan talk about when Boone was captured 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:20.320 and brought back to their chief, Blackfish, using Pompey as 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.880 an interpreter, Blackfish asked my father about his men who 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.680 were at the Pee Memo Lick. This was the general 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.400 name in Shawnee for salt springs, referring to the lower 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:33.080 blue licks. Father asked how they knew his men were there, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.200 and they said their spies had seen them. Father admitted 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.199 that these men were his, and Blackfish informed him they 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.639 were going to kill them. My father then proposed if 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.840 they would not mistreat them nor make them run the gauntlet, 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.640 he would surrender them up as prisoners of war. End 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:54.640 of quote. Now Boone leads the Shawnees to his men 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:59.159 that are working at a salt lick. Here's Boone. I 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.080 suppose it was on the north side of the river. 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.879 The salt makers were lying on their blankets, apparently stunning 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.720 themselves with the snow then half a leg deep. My 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.400 father called out to the men that they were surrounded 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.919 by a large body of Indians. He explained that he 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.840 had stipulated for their surrender and had secured the promise 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.159 of good treatment for them. He said that it was 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.000 impossible for them to get away, and begged them not 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.680 to attempt to defend themselves, as they would all be massacred. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.480 They at once yielded to his advice, and as my 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.320 father and the Indians with him began to descend the hill, 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.960 the others began to come in from every direction. End 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:38.119 of quote. Boone and his men would be captured and 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.199 they would stay with the Shawnee for four months. Some 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.359 of the men would escape at different times. It was 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.680 at this time that Boone was adopted as the son 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:51.720 of Blackfish and thus a Shawnee. Boone would spend the 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:56.679 entire four months there and adapted very well to indigenous life. 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.760 This would come back to haunt Boone later. This is 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:06.440 Nathan talking about how Blackfish treated his father. Both Blackfish 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.359 and his squall treated father very kindly, and he seemed 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.000 to think much of them. They had two daughters, both small, 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:15.960 named Puma PC and Pima PC. The former was four 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:19.240 or five years old, ill tempered and hateful. The youngest 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:21.680 was a mere child, perhaps a year old, with a 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:25.280 kind temper, and Boone used to nurse it frequently. He 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.840 used the silver trink it's his currency, and would buy 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.520 maple sugar to give to the children, who would smile 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:34.640 and call it molas. An example of blackfish his kindness 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.920 and an Indian's idea of taste was that Blackfish would 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.440 suck a lump of sugar while in his mouth, take 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:42.960 it out and give it to Boone, who he always 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:47.200 addressed as my son. Blackfish at that time was perhaps 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:51.240 fifty years old, but perhaps not quite that old. Blackfish 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.840 gave my father the name shell Tawee, which means the 0:20:54.960 --> 0:21:05.240 big turtle. End of quote. To make this story short 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.360 and simple, Boon makes a daring escape from the Shawnee 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:12.200 captors after four months of favorable captivity. While they were 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.760 distracted by a flock of turkeys, Boone makes a bee 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:19.240 line back to Boonsborough to warn the settlers and his 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:23.080 family of the coming attack by the Shawnee. They prepare 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:26.119 the fort and within a short time period, are attacked. 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.760 After a set up peace talk from Blackfish, we can 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:33.879 do a whole series on this one event. Spoiler alert. 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.840 The Shawnees are held off and the fort is saved, 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:42.000 but there were consequences for Boone because of Boon on 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:46.359 those people, including women of really excellent shots. The civil 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:51.320 women remember us with a rifle. Uh, They're able to 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:54.280 hold them off from Kentucky was not lost, so the 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:57.680 western side of the United States is not lost. It's 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:01.960 very important event. If they had lost Boonsborough, all of 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:05.440 Kentucky would have been taken there's no doubt of it. 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:08.359 So Boon and it's always the hero of the American Revolution. 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:13.840 That's when he's court martial that Richard Henderson and the 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:19.320 Benjamin Lardan accused him of treason because he had surrendered 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:21.600 the men at the Blue Licks and gone to live 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:28.200 with the Indians. So they they give this deposition accusing him. Meanwhile, 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:32.879 the Virginia militia has arrived with several officers, including a major, 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:36.439 and they're the judges at this court martial. And Boone 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:39.480 gets up and defends himself, and he was really good 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:42.280 at this. One of the reasons the Indians admired him 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:45.520 so much was he could talk. The big talk said 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.280 he could talk like a chief. And he eloquently defends, 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:53.679 explains this elaborate rush, and then the officers declare him 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:57.480 innocent and promote him to major on the spot. Wow. 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:00.600 So he wins that one, but he would never talk 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:09.920 about it. This is a really humiliating After the Revolution 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:13.639 is when Boone's influence and fame began to spread. I 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:16.639 want to turn the ship and began to search for 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:22.080 traces of Boone's influence in American literature, identity, and worldview. 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:30.920 Kentucky became the fifteenth state in sevent Within this timeframe 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:35.119 of like thirty years, Tucky Kentucky went from a complete 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:40.680 wilderness to an American state. That's incredible thing about I 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:42.840 never thought. I never thought about how compressed it was 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:46.639 to stay. Yeah, so we see this thing in Boone's life. 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:48.840 That part of the reason, you know, he was He 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:52.000 was famous for a statement that he needed more elbow room. 0:23:52.200 --> 0:23:54.600 Once when someone asked, why are you moving, he said, well, 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:57.199 I need more elbow room. So he was constantly in 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:00.919 pursuit of this this edge of the runtier, you know, 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:04.760 driven by commerce, potentially because he was a long hunter 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:07.080 and he needed to harvest game to make a living. 0:24:07.480 --> 0:24:10.760 But also we've got to believe that that was also 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:14.960 driven by this wanderlust for something new over the next 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:17.919 edge that just is part of human nature. He was 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:20.280 also he he did love to hunt. I mean, the 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:23.960 guy just loved to hunt. He loved solitude. But like 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:28.320 this idea that humans go to the wilderness to find 0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:33.280 solitude into commune with God, all kind of goes back 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:36.240 to boot. He was the one that was made famous 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:40.560 for contemplation. He was the one that really influenced Throw 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:43.760 in some of the great American writers that talked about 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:48.600 these things. In the final chapter of Mr Morgan's book, 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:52.200 he makes a strong appeal that Boone had significant influence 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:56.480 on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry David throw and 0:24:56.600 --> 0:25:01.440 many others. Mr Morgan says from his book quote The 0:25:01.640 --> 0:25:06.520 Row begins his essay Walking by saying, I wish to 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:10.520 speak a word for nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:15.040 as contrasted with the freedom and culture merely civil. The 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:18.359