Frontiersman

Daniel Boone and the making of America

Frontiersman

Daniel Boone and the making of America
Meredith Mason Brown
Book - 2008

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.

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書目詳細資料
主要作者: Brown, Meredith Mason, 1940-
格式: 圖書
語言:English
出版: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
叢編:Southern biography series.
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505 0 |a 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 -- Coda. 
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