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Day in the Life

Aug 5, 1876

Journal Entry

August 05, 1876 ~ Saturday

3, 4, & 5 I spent the time on the farm weading potatos. In my leasure
moments of late I have read the life of Daniel Boone the great explorer
& pioneer of Kentucky and afterwords Early setler of Louisianna
and it is vary strange that Kentucky should have cheated him out
of his land & home after locating the Country & fighting Indians 46 years
Also the Lands in Louisannna that the spanish Government gave him
was taken from him By Congres and he never had any land given
him untill he was about 80 years old and a short time before his
death his life was a remarkable one He lived 3 Months in the wilderness
of Kentucky 500 miles from any white men without bread, sugar,
or salt in a camp surrounded with Indians and was taken
twice a prisioner by them & escaped Built a fort gathered his family
and white Emigration to it & maintained it through many years
of Indian wars & was then deprived of his home By Lawyiers
and Land speculators

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Woodruff Farm, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

Aug 5, 1876