Boone : a biography by Robert Morgan

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Robert, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.

Boone, Daniel.

Pioneers--Kentucky--Biography.

Pioneers.

Explorers--Kentucky--Biography.

Explorers.

Frontier and pioneer life--Kentucky.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Kentucky--Biography.

Kentucky.

Kentucky--Discovery and exploration.

Physical Description:

xx, 538 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.

Summary:

This sweeping biography is the story of early America--its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Novelist Morgan transforms a mythic American hero--a legend in his own time--into a flesh-and-blood man, the man who was the largest spirit of his time. Hunter, explorer, settler, visionary, he was a trailblazer and a revolutionary--an American icon for more than two hundred years. Born in 1734, Boone served in the Virginia legislature, participated in the settling of the Middle West, fought in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War, and saw the election of his friend as the first president of the United States, the Louisiana Purchase, and the beginning of the Westward Expansion. Unlike many others of his time, he had a deep respect for the Indians, who taught him how to hunt, navigate, and survive in the wilderness he came to revere.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Brief chronology of Daniel Boone's life

Introduction

The mother world of the forest

People of the forest

The hills beyond the Yadkin

The Yadkin was the wild west

Domestic arts

In search of the real west

Visions of Eden

Regulators

Return to the Bluegrass land

Where there was no forbidden fruit

Kentucky was the key

The trace and the river

Freemasonry

Light and shadow

Sheltowee, Son of Blackfish

Farthest outpost of rebellion

With chain and compass

Father, I won't leave you

Filson, fame, and failure

A deale of sine is seen

Boating in the west

Going east to go west

To the farther west

Done all the good that I can

Across the river into legend.

Notes:

"A Shannon Ravenel book."

Genealogical table on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [501]-514) and index.

ISBN:

9781565124554 : (hardcover)

1565124553 : (hardcover)

9781565126152 : (pbk.)

1565126157 : (pbk.)

OCLC:

123284544

Online:

Publisher description