cave-spring

Updated: June 29, 2025

I will not be trifled with in this manner Tell me instantly what you saw!" said Glenn, his vexation and anger overcoming his usual indulgent nature. "I'll tell you now it was a Didn't you see them bushes move?" asked Joe, staring wildly at a clump of sumach bushes a few paces distant. "What was it you saw at the cave-spring!" shouted Glenn, his face turning red.

J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones - Wild Western Scenes : A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the : Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly : Described

"Oh, goodness! let us all go to work and shovel it away on the outside," cried Joe, running about in quest of the spades. "Oh, St. Peter!" he continued, "the spades are out at the cave-spring!" "Run and bring them," said Glenn. "Never not for the world! They'd take my scalp to a certainty before I could get back again," replied Joe, trembling all over.

J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones - Wild Western Scenes : A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the : Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly : Described

When he reached the cave-spring, a confederate, who had been waiting for him, seized the burden and bore it onwards, in a westerly direction, with increased rapidity.

J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones - Wild Western Scenes : A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the : Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly : Described

Roughgrove did his bidding; and the Indian replied that the Great Spirit threw him over the palisade, because he once killed a friend of Boone's at the cave-spring, and was now attempting to kill another. "Why did you wish to kill us?" asked Roughgrove. "Was it right to rob the white man of these things, and then to murder him?" continued Roughgrove.

J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones - Wild Western Scenes : A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the : Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly : Described

"At the cave-spring." "Well, what made you leave them there?" "Just get off my back and I'll tell you. I'm getting over it now; I'm going to be mad instead of frightened," said Joe, with real composure. "Get up, then; but I won't trust you yet. You must still suffer me to hold your collar," said Glenn. "If you go to the cave-spring you will see a sight!" "What kind of a sight?"

J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones - Wild Western Scenes : A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the : Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly : Described