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Blood and treasure, Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin

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Blood and treasure, Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-372) and index

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non fiction

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Blood and treasure

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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin

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Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier

Summary

The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. America's first and arguably greatest pathfinder Daniel Boone-not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women, white and Native American, who witnessed it

Table Of Contents

Part I: The frontier -- A patient pathfinder -- "The single nation to fear" -- The long hunters -- Into the Yadkin -- The Ohio country -- Kanta-Ke -- Braddock's folly -- Rebecca Bryan -- The Cherokee Wars -- "Boone's surprise" -- Part II: The explorers -- "An execrable race" -- Pontiac's demise -- By royal proclamation -- The gap -- The warrior's path -- "Without...even a horse or a dog" -- "A second paradise" -- Cold rain mixed with the tears -- Part III: The settlers -- A white invasion -- Lord Dunmore's War -- Logan's lament -- Boone's trace -- A new world -- Revolution -- Kidnapped -- An Indian army -- Abandoned settlements -- "The best little Indian fight" -- Part IV: The conquest -- Taken -- Shel-tow-ee -- A mistrusted hero -- Prelude to a siege -- A haze of stinking sulfurous smoke -- "Widder maker" -- War in the West -- Boone's Station -- The Moravian Massacre -- Death at Blue Licks -- "Blood and treasure"

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Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier

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