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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 976.902092
EAN: 9780805030075
ISBN: 0805030077
Label: Holt Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: November 15, 1993
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Studio: Holt Paperbacks
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The legend of the American frontier is largely the legend of a single individual, Daniel Boone, who looms over our folklore like a giant. Boone figures in other traditions as well: Goethe held him up as the model of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "natural man," and Lord Byron devoted several stanzas of his epic poem Don Juan to the frontiersman, calling Boone "happiest of mortals any where." But folklore is not history, and we are fortunate to have a reliable and factual life of Boone through the considerable efforts of John Mack Faragher. The contradictory admirer of Indians who participated in their destruction, the slaveholder who cherished liberty, the devoted family man who prized solitude and would disappear into the woods for years at a time--the real Boone is far more interesting than the mythical image, and in this book we finally catch sight of him.
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993
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. 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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A very good biography of Daniel Boone. The author appears to present the events of the life of Daniel Boone as best as can be determined from available historical records. He does not try to portray him as the mythical folklore hero as is so often done.
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Daniel Boone was a long hunter and it brought him to the hunting ground of Kentucky. He hunted the land several times before he brought his family to Boonesborough, a fort on the Kentucky River. Faragher shows that Boone was a man of character. He loved the frontier and wanted to be a part of it. He wanted to live in peace with the Indians but at times he found them to be his enemy. The people he encouraged to come west began to crowd him and he began to look for a new frontier farther west. The ... Read More
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For even the most curious amateur historians, the 1700's are atime few know about, except for the American Revolution. Ask any history student to name someone from that time period, who was not a Patriot, and probably the only name to come up with would be Daniel Boone.
Daniel Boone has stood the test of time as a historical figure as a pioneer. In reading this book, his most remarkable accomplishment was mere survival. In fact, learning of his life is an intertwining fascination with ... Read More
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What do most of us know about Daniel Boone? Boonesborough? Cumberland Gap? Maybe even the Wilderness Road? Then there are the trumped up tales for which the most part, are fictitious.
Dr. Faragher does justice to this American frontiersman. He digs, rummages and investigates into the volumes written about Boone and turns this into a respectable, readable biography.
Settling Kentucky was a decade's long gruesome endeavor. Many lives were lost. The English, French, Indians and soon ... Read More
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Daniel Boone lived from 1734 to 1820.
I knew almost nothing about Boone before reading this biography, and so cannot critique the book on its historical or biographical accuracy. My only complaint is that it is not longer. This seems an excellent book to begin a study of Daniel Boone. It has gotten me curious to read more.
And yes, I am one of those who grew up watching Fess Parker's TV show Daniel Boone.
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