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BL
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701712
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b523901
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| Main Entry
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Brown, Meredith Mason,1940-
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| Title & Author
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Frontiersman : : Daniel Boone and the making of America /\ Meredith Mason Brown.
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| Publication Statement
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Baton Rouge :: Louisiana State University Press,, [2008]
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, ©2008
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| Series Statement
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Southern biography series
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| Page. NO
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xxii, 375 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0807133566 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780807133569 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-356) and index.
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| Contents
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Old Boone -- Quakers in Pennsylvania, settlers in backcountry North Carolina -- Braddock's defeat: how not to fight Indians -- A good wife -- Long hunts -- Boone's first hunts in Kentucky -- Boone begins to open the wilderness: the first attempt to settle Kentucky -- Transylvania, the wilderness road, and the building of Boonesborough -- Dark and bloody ground: an introduction to Kentucky during the Revolutionary War -- The capture and rescue of the girls -- The Shawnees capture Boone -- Boone among the Shawnees -- The siege of Boonesborough -- Indian raids and the Battle of the Blue Licks -- White and Indians -- Trading and land speculation: master of all he surveyed? -- Living legend, shrinking fortune -- Out to Missouri -- Boone in Missouri -- Last days -- Life after death.
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| Abstract
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Supported with copious maps, illustrations, endnotes, and a detailed chronology of Boone's life, Frontiersman provides a fresh and accurate rendering of a man most people know only as a folk hero--and of the nation that has mythologized him for over two centuries.
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| Subject
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Boone, Daniel,1734-1820-- Influence.
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Boone, Daniel,1734-1820-- Relations with Indians.
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Boone, Daniel,1734-1820.
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Explorers-- Kentucky, Biography.
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Frontier and pioneer life-- Kentucky.
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Frontier and pioneer life-- United States.
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Pioneers-- Kentucky, Biography.
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Kentucky, Discovery and exploration.
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Missouri, Discovery and exploration.
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United States, Territorial expansion.
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| Dewey Classification
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976.9/02092B
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| LC Classification
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F454.B66B77 2008
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