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The Early Settlers in North America
The North American frontier changed some of the characteristics of the pioneers of the 1750's and intensified others. They were, as a group, semiliterate, proud, and stubborn, as dogged in their insistence on their own way of life as pine roots cracking granite to grow. Perhaps their greatest resource was their capacity to endure. They outlasted recurrent plagues of smallpox and malaria and a steady progression of natural accidents. They were incredibly prolific. Squire Boone's family of eight children was small by frontier standards. James Roberson, an eventual neighbor of Boone's and the founder of