Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1907 — When Daniel Boone Was Captured. [ARTICLE]

When Daniel Boone Was Captured.

Dan the organizer of the ‘‘Sons of Daniel Boone/’ tells his you elnb members a stiring historical story each month in the Woman’s Home Companion. The April number contains this tale. “The most notorious of the renegades was ‘Katepacomen,’ as the Indians called him, or Simon Girty as he was known to the whites. After serving in the American army for a s ! iort time, Girty for some real or imiginary offense, deserted it and joined the savage*, fighting against tne Americans, and for twenty years thereafter lived the life ot an Indian chief among his adopted red skin brothers, waging constant war upon the whites and decorating his belt with the bloody scalps of his own race. The Three - Yenegades brothers—J am es Girty, George Girty and Simon Girty—and two Freuchmen were with The ludians who captured Daniel Boone in 1777. Girty led the attack upon Bryant Station, and it was Girty who planued to rescue Kentucky from the possession of the ‘long knives’ as the Indians called the whites, and restore it again to the red men. Bat he failed in both these undertakings. He was however a man of great courage, fierce and aggressive in war, possessing all the canning and treachery attributed to the red men; but when his comrade scout, Simon Kenton, was captured by the Indians, he did all in his power to save him from the torture stake.”