Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier Cover Image

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

Drury, Bob, (author.). Clavin, Thomas, (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781432886592
ISBN: 1432886592
Physical Description: 623 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-620).

Formatted Contents Note:

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" -- 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 -- 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" -- 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" -- Epilogue.