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. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. ON THE OUTPOSTS. Having now prepared the stage, it is time for the prompter to ring up the curtain and call upon it the actors who are to take parts in this first scene of the great drama which is to be enacted in the wilderness. The theatre is only a barn, and the performers are merely a ...
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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. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. ON THE OUTPOSTS. Having now prepared the stage, it is time for the prompter to ring up the curtain and call upon it the actors who are to take parts in this first scene of the great drama which is to be enacted in the wilderness. The theatre is only a barn, and the performers are merely a band of strollers, but the spectator will soon see that they are great actors, and the play the first act in a grand drama that may not be played out for centuries--not, at least, until civilization shall have overspread the whole vast continent west of the Alleghanies. By that silent suffrage, according to which every man is speedily elected to his true place in a new community, the young farmer, Robertson, was soon given the leading position in the Watauga settlement. There were older men than he among the settlers, and those better bred and better educated, but it soon came to be understood that he possessed the qualities that peculiarly fitted him for leadership; and so he was tacitly recognized as the head man in the little community, and looked up to and obeyed accordingly. He was at this time not quite thirty years of age. His personal appearance at a later date is described by an aged granddaughter, writing more than a century afterward, as follows: "He was," she writes, "about five feet nine inches in height, heavy' built, but not too fat. His head inclined slightly forward, so that his light-blue eyes were usually shaded by his heavy eyebrows. His hair was very dark--like a mole in color--and his complexion, though naturally very fair, was darkened and reddened by exposure. I remember him as being uncommonly quiet and thoughtful, and full of the cares of business. We all loved and venerated him." * From other sources I gather...
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