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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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became of them. Boone remained so long that his family became
alarmed. His younger brother, accompanied by another man, came in
search of him. Daniel, instead of returning, sent him back to tell his
friends that he was safe; he was to return with powder and bullets.
Three months went by before the younger brother came. Daniel was
alone the, while. He knew the Indians would be glad to capture him;

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but he knew their wiles, and ekuled them. After being absent nearly
a year, he returned to his home.
People were crossing the mountains to make their homes in Ken-
tucky. Daniel Boone organized a company of fifty, who made a settle-
ment at Boonsborough.
1775
The Revolutionary War had begun, and
the Indians were being supplied with arms and ammunition by the
British at Detroit. The settlers built a fort, which was often beset by the
Indians. They captured Jemima Boone, and Elizabeth and Frances Cal-
laway, who were seized while in a canoe on the Kentucky River. The
people in the fort heard their cries and started in pursuit of the Indians,

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DANIEL BOONE.

10 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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