The Boone narrative; the story of the origin and discovery coupled with the reproduction in facsimile of a rare item of early Kentuckiana, to which is appended a sketch of Boone and a bibliography of 238 titles / by Willard Rouse Jillson, Sc.D. Boone Day Address, Kentucky State Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky, June 8, 1931.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jillson, Willard Rouse, 1890-1975.

Contributor:

Kentucky Historical Society.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.

Boone, Daniel.

Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820--Bibliography.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Penn Provenance:

Rose, D. B. G. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 61 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Louisvlle, Kentucky : The Standard Printing Company, Incorporated, 1932.

Contents:

The Boone narrative

The adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon (In Facsimile)

The Wilderness Scout

Boone's story of the Battle of the Blue Licks

A new Boone bibliography

Boone's first view of Kentucky / by Timothy Field.

Notes:

With half-title.

"First edition. 1000 copies."

"This Commemorative Edition of 'The Boone Narrative,' ... is issued by special arrangements with the Standard Printing Company, under the sponsorship of the Boone Bicentennial Commission of Kentucky, as Document No. I, of its Boone Publications in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of great Kentucky pioneer."--Note.

Facsimile includes reproduction of original t.-p.: The adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, one of the first settlers at Kentucke: containing the wars with the Indians on the Ohio, from 1769 to 1783, and the establishment and progress of the settlement on that river. Written by the colonel himself ... Norwich: Printed by John Trumbull. M,DCC,LXXXVI.

Brown boards with black and white illustration on front cover of man shooting a deer. Lettered in gilt lettering on front cover and spine.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "For E. E. -- R-- from D. B. G. Rose, July 19, 1940".

Contains:

Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820, 1734-1820. Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon.

OCLC:

3474989