Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
"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. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, The French, and finally against 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 none other than 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, white and Native American, 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250247131
- ISBN: 1250247136
- ISBN: 9781250277626
- ISBN: 1250277620
- ISBN: 9781250247155
- ISBN: 1250247152
- Physical Description: xi, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-372) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The frontier -- The explorers -- The settlers -- The conquest. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 56 of 57 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Old Fort Branch Library | BIO BOO (Text) | 37810438154170 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | B BOONE (Text) | 30664100313581 | Adult New Biography | Available | - |
| Andrews Public Library | B BOONE (Text) | 80605003592242 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | 976.902 DRU (Text) | 22281500147624 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Columbus Library | 976.9 DRU (Text) | 31250200077151 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Denton Public Library | B Boone (Text) | 25908007881498 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Dorothy Wightman Library | ANF 976.902 DRU (Text) | 30372101866009 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Dunn Public Library | B BOONE Dru (Text) | 33436001741385 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| East Regional Library | B BOONE (Text) | 31781065769760 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Etowah Branch | BOONE (Text) | 33258009457560 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
