HUMOR, EVEN WHEN EXPOSED TO DANGER!
HUMOR, EVEN WHEN EXPOSED TO DANGER! On Monday, June 27th, 1774, Daniel Boone and Michael Stoner set off on a dangerous mission to notify surveyors on the frontier to return back to the settlements or forts for protection from hostile Native warriors. After an absence of sixty-one days, Boone and Stoner returned on the 26th. of August, having travelled approximately eight hundred miles and passing through many difficulties. An anecdote preserved by Daniel himself, passed down to his son Nathan, displays how our ancestors could heartily enjoy a joke or humorous situation, even when exposed to danger. On the way to Kentucky, Daniel Boone and Michael Stoner came upon a small stream at a horseshoe bend. There they found a neck of ground raised to a high narrow ridge or point; on both sides the buffalo had licked until a small hole was worn through the embankments. Seeing this, Stoner went down and discovered a buffalo, a cow, through the hole on the other side. He said “Stop Captain, and