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Frontiersman : Daniel Boone and the making of America Cover Image

Frontiersman : Daniel Boone and the making of America / Meredith Mason Brown.

Brown, Meredith M. (Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0807133566
ISBN: 9780807133569
Physical Description: xxii, 375 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2008]
Copyright: ©2008

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-341) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.