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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, while illuminating the American hero-making process itself. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure trove of reminiscences gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history...
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Draper manuscript collection volume Series B, 1-5
Publisher
University of Chicago Library, Photoduplication Dept
Pub. Date
[1979?]
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English
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In this unfinished biography, Draper recounts the history of unsettled Kentucky using Boone's activities prior to 1779 as a framework, writes biographical sketches of daring Kentucky peioneers, and copies a genealogy of the Boone family.
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The American experience volume AE15
Publisher
Corinth Books
Pub. Date
[1962]
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English
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English
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The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America-its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny.
Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him.
This rich, authoritative biography offers a wholly new perspective on a man who has been an American icon for more than two hundred years, a hero as important...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Chief Blackfish handed Daniel a belt. "The beads represent three paths," he said. "The red path is the warpath. The white path is the path we can walk together. The black path is death-the path you will walk if you do not surrender." Daniel knew that the settlers would not give up the fort. Could he help them escape the path of death?"
In search of open spaces and land to call his own, Daniel Boone fearlessly led a band of brave settlers into the...
18) Daniel Boone
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Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A brief biography of Daniel Boone, from his early years in Pennsylvania and Virginia through his exploration of land in Tennessee and Kentucky and later life in Missouri.