Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the making of America
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Main Author: Brown, Meredith Mason (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2008
Series:Southern biography series
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-341) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 375 pages, [10] pages of plates)
ISBN:0807134589
0807146250
9780807134580
9780807146255