Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the West, Band 1

aborigines adventurers afforded alluded American arms arts attempt bill boats Boone Boonesboro Cahokia called character Chartres Cherokees chief civil civilised Colonel colony conduct conquest Cortes danger Daniel Boone discovery enemy English enterprise erected established faith forest Fort Pitt French frontier habits heathen Henderson Hernando Cortes hostile houses human hunters hunting Illinois Indian tribes individuals inhabitants intercourse Kaskaskia Kaskaskia river Kentucky Kentucky river kind land latter laws lived Lord Dunmore ment miles military mind Mississippi moral nations natives neighbours never Ohio party passed peace Penn persons pioneers possession Prairie du Rocher present principles proprietors purchase purpose race racter region respect Richard Henderson river savage savage nations settled settlements settlers shores soil spirit territory tion town trade Transylvania company treaty United villages Virginia virtues warriors western whites whole wilderness William Penn woods