excerpt from the book..Nearly twenty years had now elapsed since Daniel Boone had spent thatmemorable twelve-month all alone in the depths of the boundlesswilderness; yet was Kentucky still the Hunter's Paradise, or the land ofthe Dark and Bloody Ground, just as the wild adventurer or peacefullaborer might happen to view it. In the more central regions, it istrue, a number of thriving settlements had already sprung up, and bythis time--1789, or thereabout--were quite too populous and strong toapprehend any further serious molestation from their Indian neighbors.But between these points and the Ohio River lay a wide border ofdebatable land, where the restless savages still kept up their hostiledemonstrations, which, though less bloody and wasting than at an earlierperiod, were yet sufficiently frequent and harassing to keep the whitesettlers in perpetual disquietude and fear.