Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier Drury, Bob creator author. text bibliography biography nyu 2021 First edition. monographic eng

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xi, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. "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".-- Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Includes bibliographical references and index. Boone, Daniel 1734-1820 Pioneers Kentucky Biography Explorers Kentucky Biography Indians of North America Wars 1750-1815 Frontier and pioneer life Kentucky Frontier and pioneer life United States United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Biography United States Territorial expansion F454.B66 D78 2021 976.9 9781250247131 9781250247155 201102 20230131144119.0 1151098058