Excerpt from A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri: With Numerous Sketches, Anecdotes, Adventures, Etc., Relating to Early Days in Missouri; Also the Lives of Daniel Boone and the Celebrated Indian Chief Black Hawk The delay in issuing the book has been unavoidable first owing to the time spent in gathering the materials, and then to numer ous unavoidable delays in the printing office. But the matter is just as fresh and entertaining as though it had been issued a year ago. We do not expect the reader to believe all the remarkable yarns related under Anecdotes and Adventures. Some of them' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.