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The Opening Script
In Presenting this picture it has been the aim to show conditions as they actually existed in early America -- pre-revolutionary days when in order to sustain his own life, a man had to fight for it.
Daniel Boone was the outstanding figure of the early pioneer period and his life too adventurous to show in its entirety -- the incidents portrayed here are centered around the time of his moving to Kentucky.
0:04:22 Impressionable Natives
Titles: The Indians were never so cruel as when led by a renegade white.
0:12:24 The Worth of a White Man
Daniel Boone: I'll spare you because you're white, Gerty.
0:29:22 What a Nice Guy
Rebe: Such bravery is sure to be rewarded.
Boone: Savin' you is a reward itself.
1:00:32 Rebe's Prayer Answered
Rebe's prayer: "-And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil--."
1:04:56 Retribution
Chief Grey Eagle: A life for a life.
1:19:27 Natives Quoting Scripture?
Chief Grey Eagle: As man liveth, so shall he die.