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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 first establishment and progress of the settlement on that river. / Written by the colonel himself. ; To which are added, a narrative of the captivity and extraordinary escape of Mrs. Francis Scott, an inhabitant of Washington-County Virginia ...

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820, author.
Contributor:
Marshall, Humphrey, 1760-1841.
Filson, John, approximately 1747-1788.
Series:
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19514.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.
Boone, Daniel.
Scott, Frances.
Indians of North America--Kentucky.
Indians of North America.
Indian captivities.
Kentucky--History--To 1792.
Kentucky.
History.
Genre:
Captivity narratives.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (24 pages)
Place of Publication:
Norwich [Conn.] : Printed by John Trumbull., M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]
System Details:
text file
Notes:
Transcribed by John Filson from Boone's dictation and "improved" by Humphrey Marshall. First published in: Filson, John. The discovery and settlement and present state of Kentucke, Wilmington, 1784. Cf. Vail, R.W.G. The voice of the old frontier, pages 331.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 19514).
Cited in:
Evans 19514
Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 38
Contains:
Narrative of the captivity and escape of Mrs. Francis Scott ...
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