12, 1779, to May 27, 1780.] Immense and Rapid Changes.
Half a dozen years later all this was changed.

The settlers had fairly swarmed into the Kentucky country, and the population was so dense that the true frontiersmen, the real pioneers, were already wandering off to Illinois and elsewhere every man of them desiring to live on his own land, by his own labor, and scorning to work for wages.

The unexampled growth had wrought many changes; not the least was the way in which it lessened the importance of the first hunter-settlers and hunter-soldiers.

The great herds of game had been woefully thinned, and certain species, as the buffalo, practically destroyed.

The killing of game was no longer the chief industry, and the flesh and hides of wild beasts were no longer the staples of food and clothing.