 | Mann Butler - 1834 - 418 pages
...Boone was told by an old Indian, who had signed the treaty, taking him by the hand, "brother," says he, "we have given you a fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it;" words, as events mourfully proved, of most ominous meaning. The troubles of Kentucky have been marked... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 pages
...Watauga, when the instrument was signed, a venerable Indian took Boon by the hand, and said to him — " Brother, we have given you a fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it." The first steps which he took for this purpose, proved the justness of this opinion. Within a few miles... | |
 | James Gettys McGready Ramsey - 1853 - 778 pages
...the treaty reluctantly, and taking Daniel Boon by the hand, said, with most significant earnestness: "Brother, we have given you a fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it ; " words of ominous import, as subsequent events too mournfully proved These events, so far as the... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1853 - 734 pages
...signed Colonel Henderson's deed. Taking me by the hand, at the delivery thereof—' Brother,' said he^ ' we have given you a fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it.' My footsteps have often been marked with blood, and therefore I can truly subscribe to its original... | |
 | 1854 - 468 pages
...told on this very treaty by an oW Indian chief who took him by the hand; "Brother," said the chief,, "we have given you a fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it.* Could the Indian have alluded to the claims of the north-western tribes to the very grounds alienated... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1855 - 738 pages
...signed Colonel Henderson's deed. Taking me by the hand, at the delivery thereof — 'Brother,' said he, 'we have given you a fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it.' My footsteps have often been marked with blood, and therefore I can truly subscribe to its original... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - 1856 - 742 pages
...the more important treaties of cession, after signing the articles, took Boone by the hand, saying: "Brother, we have given you a fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it." The old settler adds, speaking of the former appellation bestowed on this "debateable ground": "My... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - 1860 - 736 pages
...more important treaties of cession, after signing the articles, took Boone by the hand, saying : " Brother, we have given you a fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it." The old settler adds, speaking of the former appellation bestowed on this " debatable ground " : "... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - 1865 - 402 pages
...deed. Taking me by the hand, at the delivery thereof — "Brother," said he, "we have given you a line land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it." My footsteps have often been marked with blood, and therefore I can truly subscribe to its original... | |
 | 1847 - 616 pages
...Cherokee chief to Boone, at Watauga, was amply verified, when he said, as he took him by the hand, ' Brother, we have given you a fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it.' Not a solitary wig-wam was ever burned on the soil, not a single red mtn expatriated by the negotiations... | |
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Brother, says he, we have given you a fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it. 
