Frontiersman : Daniel Boone and the making of America / Meredith Mason Brown.
| Author/creator |
Brown, Meredith Mason, 1940- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2008. |
| Description | xxii, 375 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
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| Series | Southern biography series Southern biography series. ^A148727 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-341) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008018153 |
| ISBN | 9780807133569 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807133566 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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