saves Boon’s life;
    accompanies Boon to the Scioto;
    fight with the Indians;
    steals horses from the Indians;
    captured by the Indians;
    treatment of, by the Indians;
    runs the gauntlet;
    taken from town to town;
    tortured by women and boys;
    abandons himself to despair;
    ransomed by traders;
    escapes and reaches home in safety;
    a favorite hero of frontier history;
    joins Clark at the Falls of the Ohio;
    with Logan at the Blue Licks;
  Kentucky claimed by a dozen tribes, I;
    belonged to no one;
    famous for game;
    excites Boon’s interest;
    its beauty as seen by Boon;
    first white victim to Indian treachery;
    “like a paradise,”;
    abandoned by whites in 1774;
    isolation of the first settlers;
    called by the Cherokees “the dark and bloody ground,”;
    religion of the settlers;
    Jefferson and Henry determine to keep it a part of Virginia;
    foothold of the Americans in;
    permanent settlers come in;
    early marriages;
    dislike to the Episcopal Church;
    Baptist preachers arrive in;
    different types among the settlers;
    three routes to;
    danger from savages;
    hardships endured by settlers;
    amusements and explorations;
    growth of;
    war with the Indians;
    population of as set forth in Shater’s “History of Kentucky”;
    the struggle in, II;
    whites outnumbered by the invading Indians in;
    bloodthirstiness of war in;
    settled chiefly through Boon’s instrumentality;
    Clark’s conquests benefit;
    land laws;
    inrush of settlers;
    occasional Indian forays;
    the hard winter;
    an abortive separatist movement;
    divided into counties;
    Indian war parties repulsed;
    threatened by a great war band;
    renewal of Indian forays;
    wonderful growth of;
    first grand jury impanelled;
    court house and jail built;
    manufactories of salt started;
    grist mills erected;
    race track laid out
  King’s Mountain where Ferguson halted, II;
    battle of;
    victory of the Americans at;
    importance of the victory at;
  Knight captured with Crawford, II;
    witnesses his tortures;
    escapes;
  Lamothe supports the British, II;
  Language spread of the English, I;
  Latin race leader of Europe, I;
  Leni-Lenape, the.  See Delawares;
  Levels of Greenbriar, the gathering-place of Lewis’ army, I;
  Lewis, General Andrew,
    in command of frontiersmen in Lord Dunmore’s army, I;
    the force under his command;
    divides his army into three divisions;
    leaves his worst troops to garrison small forts;
    reaches the Kanawha River;
    camps at Point Pleasant at the mouth of the Kanawha;
    prepares to obey Lord Dunmore’s