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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt:...less than three hundred miles from the mouth of the river. By this time he had established the fact that the river emptied into the Gulf of Mexico. DANIEL BOONE. This great soldier and frontiersman is one of the most admirable characters in American history. He was born of English parents in Bucks County. Pa.. and in his youth moved with his parents to North Carolina where he was married. in his early manhood he went to Kentucky and became identified with the settlement of that state. He did great service for tilt'3_Sftt_e in the wars with Indians. Late in life he lost his property and left the state for Missouri deeply in debt. He made money in Missouri, returned and canceled all his obligations. He died at the age of 88, in 1822. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. America owes a debt of perpetual gratitude to George Rogers Clark for his Ser_ vices as leader of the frontier army of the northwest in the Revolutionary War_ tt was due to his excellent abilities that the Mississippi frontier was saved to the United States. Miss Elsie Ward. the sculptor shows him in a costume in perfect accord with history and in a striking attitude, his hand shading his eyes while he scans the horizon. Nothing is known of the personality of Clark. as he was never married He was a brother of William Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1803-5_' WlLLIAM CLARK. MElRlWElTHER LEWIS. The names of Lewis and Clark are forever linked together as the explorers who first traversed the great northwest by the special authority of the United States to gather information concerning its resources and possibilities. The expedition was planned even before President Jefferson had become acquainted with the results of the negotiations at Paris which led to the Louisiana Purchase. The...