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Daniel Boone and the Battle of the Blue Licks
Robert Morgan: An Excerpt from Boone, published Oct. 16, 2007
Addressing a large force of Indians and British officers and militia assembled in Ohio in August of 1782 to attack the American settlements in Kentucky, Simon Girty spoke with a particular passion:
"Brothers, the intruders on your lands exult in the success that has crowned their flagitious acts. They are planting fruit trees and plowing the lands where, not long since, were the canebrakes and clover field. Was there a voice in the trees of the forest, or articulate sounds in the gurgling water, every part of this country would call on you to choose among these ruthless invaders, who are laying it waste. Unless you rise in the majesty of your might and exterminate their whole race, you may bid adieu to the hunting grounds of your fathers, to the delicious flesh of the animals with which they abounded-and to the skins with which you were once enabled to purchase your clothing and your rum." Read More...
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Selected Bibliography of Robert Morgan
Boone: A Biography. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 2007 |
