Daniel Boone was the Cowper of the wilderness; a solitary man loving the silent companionship of the woods. He leads us across the Alleghanies to the fields of Kentucky, before any white man's foot had traversed those magnificent realms. No tale of romance could ever surpass his adventures with the Indians.
Draws on contemporary accounts to create a portrait of the frontier hero and the times he helped shape
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A true life account first published in the early 1800s.
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.
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Called the "Great Pathfinder", Daniel Boone is most famous for opening up the West to settlers through Kentucky.
Born October 22, 1734, Daniel Boone loved hunting and playing in the woods as a child.
In this welcome book, Meredith Mason Brown separates the real Daniel Boone from the many fables that surround him, revealing a man far more complex -- and far more interesting -- than his legend.
Presents a biography of the legendary frontiersman who explored Kentucky and the route to the West leading to American expansion of the United States.