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Updated: May 22, 2025
In September of 1775 another white wanderer told them that American men and women were living on the Kentucky River in the interior to the south. Rejoicing, they abandoned Washington, and traveled down to new Boonesborough. It seemed good to see white women again. Simon still thought that he had killed his rival Leitchman. He kept his name of Butler.
When he was about sixteen, an unfortunate occurrence threw him upon his own resources. A robust young farmer, named Leitchman, and he were rival suitors for the hand of a young coquette, and she being unable to decide between them, they took the matter into their own hands and fought a regular pitched battle at a solitary spot in the forest.
Simon lay and took it, saying no word. His mind was active. He noted his enemy's long hair, reaching to the waist a fashion among the border beaux. An idea occurred to him. He grasped one of the piston-like legs and sank his teeth into it. Yelling, Leitchman dragged him and sought to get free. Down he tumbled, also, tripped in his efforts.
Long before this he had become Simon Kenton; he had learned that he was no murderer, after all; he had met his one-time rival, Leitchman, and they had "made up." Several kinds of frontier fighters seem to have been needed in order that from the white strip along the Atlantic coast the American cabins should move, on to the Ohio River and into the red Northwest.
First, when he was sixteen he had fallen in love, at his home in Virginia, and had fought a rough-and-tumble with his man rival, by name William Veach or else Leitchman. He seemed to be holding Leitchman pretty even, too until his rival's friends jumped in and pummeled Simon well.
Lad Simon limped away, bruised and bleeding, scarcely able to walk for such fights were wild-cat fights with claws and teeth. They stepped into the timber, and fought. It was nip and tuck. No friends were at hand. But Simon was still too young; down he went, under the rain of blows, and Leitchman, taunting him with the loss of his sweetheart, proceeded to "give him the boots."
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