| Description |
xxii, 375 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Southern biography series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-341) and index. |
| Contents |
Old Boone -- Quakers in Pennsylvania, settlers in backcountry North Carolina -- Braddock's defeat: how not to fight Indians -- A good wife -- Long hunts -- Boone's first hunts in Kentucky -- Boone begins to open the wilderness: the first attempt to settle Kentucky -- Transylvania, the wilderness road, and the building of Boonesborough -- Dark and bloody ground: an introduction to Kentucky during the Revolutionary War -- The capture and rescue of the girls -- The Shawnees capture Boone -- Boone among the Shawnees -- The siege of Boonesborough -- Indian raids and the Battle of the Blue Licks -- White and Indians -- Trading and land speculation: master of all he surveyed? -- Living legend, shrinking fortune -- Out to Missouri -- Boone in Missouri -- Last days -- Life after death. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.
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Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 -- Influence.
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Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 -- Relations with Indians.
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Pioneers -- Kentucky -- Biography.
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Explorers -- Kentucky -- Biography.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
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Kentucky -- Discovery and exploration.
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Missouri -- Discovery and exploration.
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United States -- Territorial expansion.
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| ISBN |
0807133566 : $34.95 |
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9780807133569 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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