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Daniel Boone, master of the wilderness / John Bakeless ; introduction to the Bison Book edition by Michael A. Lofaro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bakeless, John, 1894-1978.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.
- Boone, Daniel.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Kentucky.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Kentucky.
- Pioneers--Kentucky--Biography.
- Pioneers.
- Kentucky--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 480 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1989]
- Summary:
- "" In his introduction to this edition of "Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness," Michael A. Lofaro, a professor of English at the University of Tennessee and the author of "The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone," assesses John Bakeless's achievement: "After fifty years his is still the standard by which all other biographies of the frontiersman are judged."
- Notes:
- Reprint, with new introd. Originally published: New York : Morrow, 1939.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 425-434.
- ISBN:
- 0803260903 (pbk.
- 0803212119
- OCLC:
- 18623702
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