02745cam a2200397 i 4500 1151098058 OCoLC 20230131144119.0 201102s2021 nyuab b 001 0beng 9781250247131 9781250247155 AJM F454.B66 D78 2021 976.9 Drury, Bob, author. 12893 Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021. xi, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet. The guide to this epic narrative is none other than America's first and arguably greatest pathfinder Daniel Boone-not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women, white and Native American, who witnessed it. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America's "First Frontier".-- Provided by publisher. Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820. 12894 Pioneers Kentucky Biography. 12895 Explorers Kentucky Biography. 12896 Indians of North America Wars 1750-1815. 12897 Frontier and pioneer life Kentucky. 12898 Frontier and pioneer life United States. 12899 United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Biography. 12900 United States Territorial expansion. 12901 .b170021026 ddc BOOK 28644 28644 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2023-01-31 18.99 0 976.9 DRUR 64124 2023-01-31 2023-01-31 BOOK 1