Bibliograph

Frontiersman, Daniel Boone and the making of America, Meredith Mason Brown

Type

Label

Frontiersman, Daniel Boone and the making of America, Meredith Mason Brown

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-341) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrationsplatesmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Frontiersman

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Meredith Mason Brown

Series statement

Southern biography series

Sub title

Daniel Boone and the making of America

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

Table Of Contents

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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