How eager Boone was to go with the forces under Lewis is seen in the official correspondence relative to Dunmore's War.

Floyd wanted Boone's help in raising a company: "Captain Bledsoe says that Boone has more [influence] than any man now disengaged; and you know what Boone has done for me...

for which reason I love the man." Even the border, it would seem, had its species of pacifists who were willing to let others take risks for them, for men hung back from recruiting, and desertions were the order of the day.

Major Arthur Campbell hit upon a solution of the difficulties in West Fincastle.

He was convinced that Boone could raise a company and hold the men loyal.