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Author:

Brown, Meredith Mason, 1940-

Title:

Frontiersman : Daniel Boone and the making of America / Meredith Mason Brown.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xxii, 375 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Boone, Daniel,--1734-1820.
Boone, Daniel,--1734-1820--Influence.
Boone, Daniel,--1734-1820--Relations with Indians.
Pioneers--Kentucky--Biography.
Explorers--Kentucky--Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life--Kentucky.
Kentucky--Discovery and exploration.
Missouri--Discovery and exploration.
Frontier and pioneer life--United States.
United States--Territorial expansion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-341) and index.

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.

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.

Series:

Southern biography series

ISBN:

0807133566 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807133569 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)226966505

LCCN:

2008018153

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

XWPC787 -- Avoca Public Library (Avoca)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GCPC771 -- Mitchellville Public Library (Mitchellville)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)