Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 1 (of 2)
CHAPTER XVIII
EARLY EPISODES OF WESTERN LIFE
Methods of composition—"A Wild Horse"—Henderson to Philadelphia in 1811—Records of Audubon and Nolte, fellow travelers, compared—The great earthquakes—The hurricane—The outlaw—Characterization of Daniel Boone—Desperate plight on the prairie—Regulator law in action—Frontier necessities—The ax married to the grindstone 273