Daniel Boone
by Bakeless, JohnEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1989-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Summary
In his introduction to this edition ofDaniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness, Michael A. Lofaro, a professor of English at the University of Tennessee and the author ofThe 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."
Table of Contents
| Introduction to the Bison Book Edition | |
| Introduction | |
| The Boones of Pennsylvania | p. 3 |
| To the Yadkin Valley | p. 15 |
| Goodbye to the World | p. 44 |
| First Attempt at Settlement | p. 66 |
| Public War, Private Treaty | p. 81 |
| The Wilderness Road | p. 89 |
| Life at Boonesborough | p. 110 |
| Three Kidnapped Daughters | p. 124 |
| Year of the Three Sevens | p. 141 |
| Prisoner of the Shawnee King | p. 156 |
| Sheltowee, the Ingrate | p. 178 |
| Blackfish Lays Siege | p. 195 |
| Treasons or Stratagems? | p. 229 |
| Red-Skinned Raiders | p. 239 |
| The Year of Blood: Siege of Bryan's Station | p. 263 |
| The Year of Blood: Death at the Blue Licks | p. 288 |
| The Thirteen Fires | p. 310 |
| Land Trouble | p. 340 |
| Elbow-Room | p. 351 |
| Last Frontier | p. 384 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 419 |
| Bibliographical Essay | p. 425 |
| Notes | p. 435 |
| Index | p. 469 |
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