The Locator -- [(title = "Boone")]

742 records matched your query       


Record 8 | Previous Record | MARC Display | Next Record | Search Results
Author:
Drury, Bob, author.
Title:
Blood and Treasure : [large print] / daniel boone and the fight for america's first frontier / Bob Drury, Tom Clavin.
Format:
[large print] /
Edition:
Large print edition
Publisher:
Thorndike Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
621 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Boone, Daniel, 1734--1820
Appalachian Mountains
Other Authors:
Clavin, Tom, author.
Summary:
"The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic narrative is America's first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone--not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women, white and red, who witnessed it. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America's "First Frontier" that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1432886592
9781432886592
LCCN:
2021933067
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)
TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)
SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)
ZXPC675 -- Fisher-Whiting Memorial Library (Mapleton)
GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)
HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)
LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)
BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)

Initiate Another SILO Locator Search

This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.