Daniel Boone

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors. ”

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand! ”

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. ”

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. ”

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought. ”

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight. ”

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. ”

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves. ”

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death. ”