Wild turkeys, quails, and pigeons at times, swept the air like clouds.

And then there was the intense excitement of occasionally bringing down a deer, and even of shooting a ferocious grizzly bear or wolf or catamount.

The romance of the sea creates a Robinson Crusoe.

The still greater romance of the forest creates a Kit Carson.

It often makes even an old man's blood thrill in his veins, to contemplate the wild and wondrous adventures, which this majestic continent opened to the pioneers of half a century ago.
Gradually, in Kentucky, the Indians disappeared, either dying off, or pursuing their game in the unexplored realms nearer the setting sun.
Emigrants, from the East, in large numbers entered the State.