Frontiersman : Daniel Boone and the Making of America /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Meredith M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Boone, Daniel.
Boone, Daniel, > 1734-1820
Barr, Linda, > 1944- > Biography. > Explorers.
Boone, Daniel, > 1734-1820 > Relations with Indians.
Boone, Daniel, > 1734-1820 > Influence.
Boone, Daniel, > 1734-1820.
Biography (Barr, Linda)
Territorial expansion.
Relations with Indians.
Pioneers.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Frontier and pioneer life.
Discoveries in geography.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Pionniers > Kentucky > Biographies.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States.
Frontier and pioneer life > Kentucky.
Pioneers > Kentucky > Biography.
United States.
Missouri.
Kentucky.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale.
Missouri > Decouverte et exploration.
Kentucky > Decouverte et exploration.
United States > Colonial question.
United States > Territorial expansion.
Missouri > Discovery and exploration.
Kentucky > Discovery and exploration.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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