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Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles....
8) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
Author
Language
English
Description
Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.
10) Daniel Boone
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of the legendary frontiersman who explored Kentucky and the route to the West leading to American expansion of the United States.
13) Daniel Boone
Author
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the colonial pioneer, hunter, and woodsman, from his youth in the Pennsylvania wilderness to his adventures exploring the frontier, especially the "dark and bloody" land called Kentucky.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Daniel Boone
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Examines this great explorer and hunter who became friends with the Indians."--From source other than the Library of Congress
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From the Revolution through the California Gold Rush, it tells the visceral, immersive narrative of the American frontier through the eyes of the most iconic figures who explored and fought to claim the country₂s vast wilderness. A prequel to the first award-winning miniseries, this four-part docuseries features dramatized portrayals of Daniel Boone, Tecumseh, Lewis & Clark, Davy Crocket and others.
19) Fighting frontiersman: the life of Daniel Boone. Based on "Daniel Boone, master of the wilderness"
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1948.
Language
English
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