"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

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tomahawks to the door, when the mother putting an old
rusty gun barrel through the crevice, the savages immediately went off.
From that time till the happy return of peace between
the United& States and Great Britain, the Indians did us no
mischief. Soon after this, the Indians desired peace.
Two darling sons and a brother, I have lost by savage
hands, which have also taken from me forty valuable horses,
and abundance of cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights
have I spent, separated from the cheerful society of men,
scorched by the summer's sun, and pinched by the winter's
cold, an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness.
DANIEL BOONE.
Payette County, Kentucky.
We will, while upon this subject, furnish also a biographical sketch of Simon Kenton, the heroic cotemporary of Daniel
Boone, and which is attributed to his own rude pen. Taking
the two sketches together, they comprise a graphic summary of Indian history in the West, at this period of the
life of "Sam."
Simon Kenton was a Virginian by birth, and emigrated to
the wilds of the West in the year 1771. He was born,
(according to a manuscript which he dictated to a gentleman
of Kentucky, several years since,) in Fauquier county, on
the 15th of May, 1l55, of poor parents. His early life was
passed principally on a farm. At the age of sixteen, having
a quarrel with a rival in a love-affair, he left his antagonist
upon the ground for dead, and made quick steps for the wilderness. In the course of a few days, wandering to and fro,
he arrived at a small settlement on Cheat Creek, one of the
forks of the Monongahela, where he called himself Butler.
Here, according to Mr. M'Clung, whose interesting account
of Kenton, in the "Sketches of Western Adventure," we are
following, he attached himself to a small company headed
by John Mahon and Jacob Greathouse, which was about starting farther west, on an exploring expedition. He was soon
induced, however, by a young adventurer of the name of
Yager, who had been taken by the western Indians when a
child, and spent many years among them, to detach himself
from the company, and go with him to a land which the