Daniel Boone rescuing his daughter Jemima

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This lithograph, painted by George Fasel, depicts Daniel Boone rescuing his teenage daughter, Jemima, from captivity. On Sunday, July 14, 1776, Jemima Boone and her two friends, Elizabeth and Frances Callaway, were canoeing on the Kentucky River when they were captured by a small party of Cherokee and Shawnee men. The fortified settlement of Boonesborough, where the girls lived with their families, was greatly alarmed and sent out a rescue party organized by Daniel Boone. After three days of searching, Boone and his party found Jemima and the Callaway girls across the Ohio River. This image of the rescue was published in an 1851 book titled Heroic Deeds of Former Times.