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“One name, above all others, shall be associated with the first step of western enterprise. That name is. The common opinion that he was only a ‘bold hunter and Indian fighter,’ is erroneous. He was more. He led a great nation to its place of power. His life is in the annals of our forest chivalry; and in all the stirring records of the bold and the daring—the determined and the adventurous—the first place, by common consent, is his. He

Boone certainly deserves to be ranked with a class of “representative men” a class especially significant in American history. Belonging to a transition period of society, he himself formed a transition style of character, partaking of the wild freedom of savage life, and the sustained force and enterprise of civilization. His story is well told in this volume, and will be read with intense interest by all who love to trace the steps by which the western wilderness has been won to civilization.—N. Y. Tribune.

It will be a popular work, and, at the same time, truly deserving of its popularity. I put it among the Fireside books of our country.—T. Romeyn Beck.

It is really a remarkable volume—more like a romance than a history; although we have no reason to think that the events recorded, and in which Daniel Boone has been the principal actor, are either distorted or exaggerated. The author presents us a mass of materials almost sufficient in importance and interest for a heroic poem.—Philadelphia News.

It is a work that cannot fail to interest every one who delights in reading of the hardships and hair-breadth escapes of the early pioneers of the Great West—Rock River Dem.

Daniel Boone was not merely a bold hunter, but a noble man, inspired by a lofty purpose,—that of opening the great West, with its boundless resources, to the progress of the Anglo-American race, pointing out the path of empire, and smoothing the obstacles to its incipient tread. The work does ample justice to his memory, and is written in a style entirely worthy of the subject.—N. Y. Evening Mirror.

This is a very interesting book. It seems to present all that is reliable in our records of the Pioneer of Kentucky, and in a style quite characteristic of the author; always rapid and lively; often graphic and sparkling. The incidents of frontier life which it portrays, are exciting, and sometimes thrilling, and heighten the grateful contrasts of the scenes of peace and refinement which are here and there so gracefully introduced. We commend this book to the lovers of our early history, as well as to the general reader.—Albany Evening Journal. Publishers,&emsp;&emsp;

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