Daniel Boone

September 24, 1964

George Washington sends Daniel and Yadkin into Ken-Tuck-E, the dark and bloody hunting ground of four Indian nations, to find a site for a fort.

October 1, 1964

A dance at Fort Boonesborough is interrupted by Flathead Joseph, a halfbreed slave trader. He has a young Indian girl with him whom he claims is a Cherokee Princess...and a white girl. Her name is Tekawitha McLeod and she is the daughter of the Cherokee Chief Menewa. When Daniel confronts Menewa about this he admits she is white and taken from a raiding party but he wants her back. Daniel refuses when he realizes he knew her family. The Indians are determined to fight to get her back and the settlers of Boonesborough are just as determined to fight to keep her.

October 8, 1964

Mingo, wanted DEAD! Daniel Boone must capture his friend Mingo and bring him to justice before all Kentucky erupts in war. Daniel's friend Yadkin is a trusted friend to all in Booneborough and among the Cherokee. Yadkin had canoed up river and while meeting with a Cherokee trading party when they were ambushed by a Creek war party. Yadkin was found floating down river by Daniel's son Israel. With Cincinnatus removing the slug(bullet) and Rebecca Boone nursing him, he began to pull through....

October 22, 1964

Boone invites a widow and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.

October 29, 1964

British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.

November 5, 1964

Boone chases a river pirate who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.

November 12, 1964

A British officer captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies.

November 19, 1964

Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.

December 3, 1964

Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.

December 10, 1964

A bondsman insists on returning a runaway slave unshackled by Boone.

December 17, 1964

A dream about a man whom Daniel thought was dead is followed by the appearance of three men at his door demanding that he take them to the site of a bloody Native American massacre.

December 31, 1964

Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.

January 7, 1965

Rumors circulate that the British are employing Indians to fight for them. Daniel becomes personally involved when he gets word his wife Rebecca has been taken by an Indian raiding party.

January 14, 1965

Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.

January 21, 1965

A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.

January 28, 1965

Boone befriends a mother and son, but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.

February 4, 1965

While hunting, the Boones meet a delirious British officer pursued by vengeful Shawnees.

February 11, 1965

A condemned bounty hunter who escaped from a military convoy takes the Boones hostage.

February 18, 1965

Boone assists a boy and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan.

February 25, 1965

A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter.

March 4, 1965

Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough.

March 11, 1965

While out hunting, Daniel and Cincinnatus come upon Timothy who is looking for his abandonded daughter Becky.

March 18, 1965

Boone and Mingo travel East and get caught up in a confrontation between Benjamin Franklin and British Admiral Lord Clydesdale, who threatens to hang them all for treason.

March 25, 1965

An idealistic schoolteacher incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.

April 1, 1965

Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men

April 8, 1965

Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.

April 15, 1965

A man is found dead by a group of travelers, one of them hears a strange noise and believes it to be the Devil in the form of a black panther. Daniel and Mingo believe a far more mundane explanation is at hand, and investigate to prove their point.

April 22, 1965

Israel accidentally startles a passing peddler's horse and his goods are ruined. Daniel agrees to compensate him for his loss but matters are complicated when he steals a grieving Indian women's mourning doll.

April 29, 1965

Jericho and Sumah, the daughter of the Indian chief, want to marry. Daniel proposes a trial engagement. For a month Jericho will live with the Indians and Sumah will live with Boone's family and see if each can adapt to the other culture.