Squire Boone lived in the
shadow of his brother Daniel, but in many ways might
have been the
better frontiersman. He was best known as an
Indian fighter, but could practice medicine in a
pinch. He was a farmer, an explorer and a preacher
of the Gospel. He built a gristmill and was also a
surveyor, and an accomplished gun maker, being
apprenticed to a master gun maker back in Pennsylvania
at the age of fifteen.
Squire Boone had been in almost every major Indian
fight in Kentucky and was wounded eleven times. Squire
was by Daniel's side at the early exploration of
Kentucky, the forging of the Wilderness Road, and the
building and siege of Fort Boonesborough.
Even Daniel was amazed at Squire's frontier abilities,
being able to find Daniel's camp in the wilderness of
Kan-Tuc-Kee with no roads or maps.
The Rumpings tell of the Boone's lives from Boonesborough to
Louisville and the hardships that so many pioneers
endured in the western frontier. They include the laughter and the
sorrow of the Boones in the early settlements in
Kentucky and Indiana.
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'Squire
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