Frontiersman : Daniel Boone and the making of America / Meredith Mason Brown.
Brown, Meredith Mason, 1940-
2008
F454.B66 B77 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Frontiersman : Daniel Boone and the making of America / Meredith Mason Brown.
Author
Brown, Meredith Mason, 1940-
ISBN
9780807133569 (alk. paper)
0807133566 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
Language
English
Description
xxii, 375 p., [22] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
F454.B66 B77 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
976.9/02092
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Southern biography series.
Record Appears in
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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.

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