Daniel Boone The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer

by Faragher, John Mack

• ISBN13: 9780805030075
• ISBN10: 0805030077
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-11-15
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Summary

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure of reminiscence gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people, Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life of Daniel Boone for decades to come, and one that illuminates the frontier world of Boone like no other.

Author Biography

John Mack Faragher is the Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail, for which he received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, and the acclaimed Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie.

Table of Contents

Chronology	xi
Introduction	xv
Part One
Curiosity Is Natural: 1734 to 1755	9	(31)
My Domestic Happiness: 1755 to 1769	40	(28)
In Quest of the Country of Kentucke: 1769 to 1773	68	(30)
On the Banks of Kentucke River: 1773 to 1776	98	(43)
Prisoners to Old Chillicothe: 1776 to 1778	141	(36)
A Vast Expence of Blood and Treasure: 1778 to 1784	177	(58)
Part Two
Unable to Call a Single Acre His Own: 1784 to 1789	235	(29)
A Wanderer in the World: 1789 to 1811	264	(39)
Part Three
God Never Made a Man of My Prisipel to Be Lost: 1811 to 1820	303	(17)
Left Until I'm Put in the Ground: Myth and Memory	320	(43)
Abbreviations	363	(2)
Sources of Quoted Material	365	(54)
Index	419