Exploits of Daniel Boone #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDaniel Boone leads a group of pioneers and soldiers through a dangerous wilderness journey, rationing powder and ammunition while evading Indian attacks. When a massive Indian assault begins under the command of Lieutenant Dequindre, Boone manages to negotiate a ceasefire by communicating with Captain Blackfish. The issue also includes a second story, "How the Cheyennes First Got Guns," which recounts how Hudson Bay Trade muskets were introduced to the Cheyenne Indians when they encountered strangers arriving with firearms and black powder.
When Daniel Boone leads a salt-gathering expedition to Blue Lick Spring in the winter of 1778, he and his men—including the eager young recruit Sam—find themselves surrounded by a Shawanee war party led by Chief Blackfish, who was marching 100 warriors toward Boonesborough. Faced with impossible odds and the threat to his settlement, Boone must negotiate their surrender, banking on the chief's honor and his own deep understanding of Indian thinking to save not just his men, but his family and home back in Kentucky.
After months of captivity, Daniel Boone returns to find Boonesborough unprepared and his family gone—and with Chief Blackfish's warriors poised to strike, he volunteers to lead a small band of scouts deep into Shawanese territory to learn the enemy's plans. When the patrol encounters a war party at Paint Creek, Boone's men are drawn into a fierce battle that reveals something far more dangerous: Blackfish is amassing an unprecedented force of nearly 500 warriors, British regulars, and heavily stocked supplies for a coordinated assault. Now Boone must lead his scouts on a desperate race back to the settlement before the massive war party cuts off their escape and seals Boonesborough's fate.
When Chief Blackfish's warriors and British-backed forces lay siege to Boonesborough, Captain Daniel Boone and his desperate garrison must hold the stockade against relentless attacks, dwindling supplies, and an enemy tunnel being dug beneath their walls. With fire consuming the wooden fortifications, the water nearly gone, and Lt. Dequindre's mining operation threatening to blow them apart, Boone rallies his people through cunning tactics and grim determination as the siege races toward its climax.
When fierce Assiniboines armed with Hudson Bay muskets attack the Cheyenne, their arrows prove useless against the unfamiliar weapons—until an elderly woman named Owl Bird, left behind at camp to finish drying meat, encounters the raiders herself. Using quick thinking and courage, she sets in motion events that will place powerful guns in Cheyenne hands and reshape the balance of power on the frontier.
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