Daniel Boone The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer

Name: Daniel Boone The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
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ISBN: 9780805030075

ISBN-10: 0805030077

ISBN-13: 9780805030075

Edition: Revised

Authors: John Mack Faragher

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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America’s famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone’s own hand, and a treasure of reminiscence gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people, Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 11/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.31" wide x 9.28" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Chronology


Introduction



Curiosity Is Natural: 1734 to 1755



My Domestic Happiness: 1755 to 1769



In Quest of the Country of Kentucke: 1769 to 1773



On the Banks of Kentucke River: 1773 to 1776



Prisoners to Old Chillicothe: 1776 to 1778



A Vast Expence of Blood and Treasure: 1778 to 1784



Unable to Call a Single Acre His Own: 1784 to 1789



A Wanderer in the World: 1789 to 1811



God Never Made a Man of My Prisipel to Be Lost: 1811 to 1820



Left Until I'm Put in the Ground: Myth and Memory


Abbreviations


Sources of Quoted Material


Index