Boon led the vanguard of the white advance across the mountains, wandered his life long through the wilderness, and ended his days, in extreme old age, beyond the Mississippi, a backwoods hunter to the last.

Shelby won laurels at King's Mountain, became the first governor of Kentucky, and when an old man revived the memories of his youth by again leading the western men in battle against the British and Indians.

Sevier and Robertson were for a generation the honored chiefs of the southwestern people.

Clark, the ablest of all, led a short but brilliant career, during which he made the whole nation his debtor.

Then, like Logan, he sank under the curse of drunkenness,--often hardly less dangerous to the white borderer than to his red enemy,--and passed the remainder of his days in ignoble and slothful retirement.
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