
Ebook: Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
Author: John Mack Faragher
- Tags: Biography & Autobiography, History, Nonfiction, BIO006000, HIS036030
- Year: 1993
- Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
- Language: English
- epub
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.