A biography of explorer and pioneer Daniel Boone.
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.
An addition to the Who Was series recounts the life of Daniel Boone, most famous for opening up the West to settlers through Kentucky, and shows how he became a symbol of America's pioneering spirit. Original.
This two-part tale features reminiscences in the legendary frontiersman's own words and a profile of his entire life, with exciting accounts of blazing the Wilderness Road and serving as a militiaman during the Revolutionary War.
My Father, Daniel Boone is an engaging account of one of America's great pioneers, in which Nathan makes a point of separating fact from fiction.
John Wilson Press, 1866. Harrison, Lowell H., and James C. Klotter. A New History of Kentucky. Lexington, Ky.: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1997. Henderson, A. Gwynn. “Dispelling the Myth: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Indian Life in ...
'How the West Was Lost' tracks the overlapping conquest, colonization, and consolidation of the trans-Appalachian frontier. Not a story of paradise lost, this is a book about possibilities lost.
Russell had recruited among the Clinch River settlements. He calculated that their ... It took two weeks to cover the hundred or so miles between Russell's homestead and the Kane Gap at Powell Mountain. Boone's scouts had already ...
A true life account first published in the early 1800s.
William L. Boone ; MS . letter of Joshua Pennington , an aged surviving nephew of Daniel Boone's ; on Fry and ... TFB : Quoted in J. Stoddard Johnson , First Explorations of Kentucky ( Louisville , KY : John P. Morgan , 1898 ) , 162.
Recreates the early life of the frontier hero who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap and led the first white settlers into Kentucky.