As mentioned in the previous post, we periodically find accounts of a musket ball or rifle ball passing through one individual and into another.  Such is the case concerning a shot fired by Daniel Boone.

I found this story concerning Daniel Boone in an old British book about the Kentucky Frontier.   The story was titled, “The Double Shot…

“Daniel Boone, the famous hunter, fighter, and pioneer, had many exciting adventures and marvelous successes.

One of the most singular experiences in his warfare on the savages occurred about 1780, when about two miles south of Owingsville.  Boone was making one of his solitary journeys from Boonesborough to the Upper Blue Licks.

As he came near a deserted station about twelve miles east of the present site of Mount Sterling, he perceived fresh signs of Indians; so he continued his journey cautiously until he came to a clear spring near the bank of Slate Creek.

Here, as he was quenching his thirst, a ball whistled by and broke the bark from the beech that shaded the spring. Boone lost no time in reaching the creek, swimming to the opposite bank, and concealing himself in a convenient canebrake.

He then cautiously parted the cane until he had gone about one hundred yards, when he observed two Indians coming warily towards the creek.  He therefore took aim at the foremost and as the other came in range he fired; and as one fell dead, the other, dropping his gun, fled with frantic yells of pain, for the ball had passed through the body of one and struck the other’s shoulder.

Boone then very calmly crossed the creek, selected one of the guns left by the savages, threw the other in the creek, where it was found afterwards, and proceeded on his way to the Blue Licks.”

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