Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer

Name: Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
Author: John Mack Faragher
ISBN: 9781429997065

John Mack Faragher

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Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer

John Mack Faragher

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Daniel Boone won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure of reminiscence gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people, Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life of Daniel Boone for decades to come, and one that illuminates the frontier world of Boone like no other.

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