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Boone's Last Days.
One spring day in 1799, there might have been observed a great stir through the valley of the Kanawha.

With the dawn, men were ahorse, and women, too.

Wagons crowded with human freight wheeled over the rough country, and boats, large and small, were afloat on the streams which pour into the Great Kanawha and at length mingle with the Ohio at Point Pleasant, where the battle was fought which opened the gates of Kentucky.
Some of the travelers poured into the little settlement at the junction of the Elk and the Kanawha, where Charleston now lies.

Others, who had been later in starting or had come from a greater distance, gathered along the banks of the Kanawha.