The Life Of Daniel Boone

Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429997065

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Daniel Boone by John Mack Faragher Pdf

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure of reminiscence gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people, Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life of Daniel Boone for decades to come, and one that illuminates the frontier world of Boone like no other.

Author : Michael Lofaro
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813128863

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Daniel Boone by Michael Lofaro Pdf

" The embodiment of the American hero, the man of action, the pathfinder, Daniel Boone represents the great adventure of his age—the westward movement of the American people. Daniel Boone: An American Life brings together over thirty years of research in an extraordinary biography of the quintessential pioneer. Based on primary sources, the book depicts Boone through the eyes of those who knew him and within the historical contexts of his eighty-six years. The story of Daniel Boone offers new insights into the turbulent birth and growth of the nation and demonstrates why the frontier forms such a significant part of the American experience.

Author : Lyman Copeland Draper
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811709795

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The Life of Daniel Boone by Lyman Copeland Draper Pdf

Draper, the first secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, collected more than 500 volumes of material on the famed frontiersman Daniel Boone. His biography of Boone remained unfinished for 100 years until Ted Franklin Belue, a widely read scholar of early Americana, added his authoritative editing. This long-awaited work is filled with little-known information on Boone and his family, long hunters, the Shawnee, the fur trade, and frontier life in general.

Author : Tom Streissguth
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781575053493

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Daniel Boone by Tom Streissguth Pdf

Daniel Boone loved to explore and hunt in the wilderness. As a boy, he learned the ways of the woods from Indians and hunters. Then Daniel heard of a place called Kentucky and he decided to move west. In his quest for adventure, Daniel inspired others to explore the American West--and became a legend.

Author : Peter Houston
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811715221

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A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone by Peter Houston Pdf

Originally written in 1842 as a letter in response to a request from the author's grandson, this work recounts the life and experiences of Daniel Boone.

Author : Bob Drury,Tom Clavin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250247148

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Blood and Treasure by Bob Drury,Tom Clavin Pdf

The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller "[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall Street Journal The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power—Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the thirteen colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “First Frontier” beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic narrative is America’s first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone—not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women who witnessed it. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America’s “First Frontier” that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice.

Author : Robert Morgan
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781565126541

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Boone by Robert Morgan Pdf

The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America—its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him. This rich, authoritative biography offers a wholly new perspective on a man who has been an American icon for more than two hundred years—a hero as important to American history as his more political contemporaries George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Extensive endnotes, cultural and historical background material, and maps and illustrations underscore the scope of this distinguished and immensely entertaining work.

Author : Michael A. Lofaro
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813115930

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The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone by Michael A. Lofaro Pdf

Chronological account of the adventuresome life of the American hero, explorer, Indian fighter and leader of the western frontier expansionary movement that regards him within his historical era and distinguishes between reality and popular legend.

Author : Daniel Boone,Francis Lister Hawks
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557094261

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Daniel Boone, His Own Story by Daniel Boone,Francis Lister Hawks Pdf

A true life account first published in the early 1800s.

Author : Neal O. Hammon
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813143996

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My Father, Daniel Boone by Neal O. Hammon Pdf

One of the most famous figures of the American frontier, Daniel Boone clashed with the Shawnee and sought to exploit the riches of a newly settled region. Despite Boone's fame, his life remains wrapped in mystery.The Boone legend, which began with the publication of John Filson's The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone and continued through modern times with Fess Parker's Daniel Boone television series, has become a hopeless mix of fact and fiction. Born in 1819, archivist Lyman Draper was a tireless collector of oral history and is responsible for much of what we do know about Boone. Particularly interested in frontier history, Draper conducted interviews with the famous and the obscure and collected thousands of manuscripts (he walked hundreds of miles through the South to save historical materials during the Civil War). In an 1851 visit with Boone's youngest son, Nathan, and Nathan's wife, Olive, Draper produced over three hundred pages of notes that became the most important source of information about Daniel. The interviews provide a wealth of accurate, first-hand information about Boone's years in Kentucky, his capture by Indians, his defense of Fort Boonesboro, his lengthy hunting expeditions, and his final years in Missouri. My Father, Daniel Boone is an engaging account of one of America's great pioneers, in which Nathan makes a point of separating fact from fiction. From explaining the methods his father used to track game to detailing how land speculation and legal problems from title claims caused Boone to leave Kentucky and take up residence farther west, Nathan Boone's portrait of his father brings a crucial period in frontier history to life.

Author : John Filson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082343975

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Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon by John Filson Pdf

Author : Meredith Mason Brown
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807134580

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Frontiersman by Meredith Mason Brown Pdf

Supported with copious maps, illustrations, endnotes, and a detailed chronology of Boone's life, Frontiersman provides a fresh and accurate rendering of a man most people know only as a folk hero--and of the nation that has mythologized him for over two centuries.

Author : James Henry Daugherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415026519

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DANIEL BOONE by James Henry Daugherty Pdf

Author : Matthew Pearl
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062937810

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The Taking of Jemima Boone by Matthew Pearl Pdf

“A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front.” — Pulitzer Prize–winning author Stacy Schiff A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air. A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party has taken the girls as the latest salvo in the blood feud between American Indians and the colonial settlers who have decimated native lands and resources. Hanging Maw, the raiders’ leader, recognizes one of the captives as Jemima Boone, daughter of Kentucky's most influential pioneers, and realizes she could be a valuable pawn in the battle to drive the colonists out of the contested Kentucky territory for good. With Daniel Boone and his posse in pursuit, Hanging Maw devises a plan that could ultimately bring greater peace both to the tribes and the colonists. But after the girls find clever ways to create a trail of clues, the raiding party is ambushed by Boone and the rescuers in a battle with reverberations that nobody could predict. As Matthew Pearl reveals, the exciting story of Jemima Boone’s kidnapping vividly illuminates the early days of America’s westward expansion, and the violent and tragic clashes across cultural lines that ensue. In this enthralling narrative in the tradition of Candice Millard and David Grann, Matthew Pearl unearths a forgotten and dramatic series of events from early in the Revolutionary War that opens a window into America’s transition from colony to nation, with the heavy moral costs incurred amid shocking new alliances and betrayals.

Author : Cecil B Hartley
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1018790489

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The Life Of Daniel Boone, The Founder Of The State Of Kentucky by Cecil B Hartley Pdf

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